Comment on Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
This is very exciting. I would love to have an Arm laptop with 20 hours of battery life that would compete with Apple Silicon.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If linux support ends up being reasonable for these I’ll seriously look into one for my next laptop. I’m always so envious of how my friends with apple silicon macs can just never really worry about battery life.
locke@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Lenovo already ships these www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/…/len101t0019
I don’t know much about them beyond knowing this.
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Exactly. And Linux already has a lot of ARM support… The question is, will Qualcomm’s instruction-set translation system be available to non-windows users or not. It’s possible they have a deal with Microsoft (like the chip will initially be exclusive to Surface devices, and only later be available to other hardware vendors like AMD giving Lenovo first dibs on their big workstations CPU’s) and work together to do it, and then it would mean that x86 emulation on Linux would take longer to catch up, but if they make it available, this could be really cool.
Either way, if the hardware exists, you can run Linux on it. You can even run Linux on Apple Silicon thanks to Asahi Linux, it’s amazing how fast they are progressing to a quite usable machine with zero help from Apple (I don’t have one but one of my buddies is using it on his Mac mini).
Also, I want this chip on a smaller version of the steam deck to basically run a Switch sized system with a decent battery life.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Honestly I don’t even care about x86 software support that much for a laptop. The only reason I would want it is games and I rarely use my laptop for that. If I really needed some x86 thing I could always connect to my desktop remotely
maeries@feddit.de 3 months ago
Is putting Linux on a macbook not an option?
jqubed@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I haven’t looked in a few months but it didn’t seem like the Asahi Linux project was necessarily ready to be a daily driver yet, but they’ve made a lot of progress in just a few years with a small team of volunteers and as far as I know no support from Apple. Seems like it’s only a matter of time before they really get it nailed down. For now you can run ARM versions of Linux in virtual machines on Apple silicon.
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Asahi Linux is amazing, and they progress really fast without any help from Apple, but I really don’t want to buy an Apple product; I don’t want to give Apple money, and I also don’t want to buy a machine that’s intentionally designed to be hard to repair and obsolete quickly.
Once my old laptop dies, I’ll probably get a Framework 13.
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah this is pretty much my thoughts exactly. I wish there was an ARM (or eventually maybe even RISC-V) Framework laptop, maybe someday