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Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Good luck making that work with Windows. If it does its not going to be profitable as Microsoft will eat your arm.

I would love to see one of these running Linux but I don't see that happening realistically

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    Already does?

    https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-tablets/laptop-device-finder/microsoft-surface-pro-9-sq3-5g

    Windows on ARM is a thing, and it does x64 and x86 translation.

    The chips likely also have hardware to accelerate translation as well, to compete with M1 and M2 chips.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Where's the installation iso?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Here's an archive of all Windows updates and builds. This query is for arm64.

    https://www.uup.ee/known.php?q=arm64

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    That's not a safe place to get isos

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    From a security perspective, as long as you check the hash against Microsoft's website then it should be okay. Otherwise I'm not sure where to get Windows on ARM ISO's from.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Windows already works on ARM, but some X86 programs are still a little slow. The Snapdragons previously used weren't as fast as the Apple silicon too, so that didn't help. The original Surface X did have a lot more problems, but Surface 9 on ARM from all reports works well.

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