Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor::Qualcomm made big claims with its Snapdragon X Elite platform and Oryon CPU, but the company proved it to the press last week with a special benchmarking session where we could witness just how powerf

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Windows is not fine with ARM, which can be a turnoff for some.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I bet it will be fine with arm fairly quickly now that these chips are on the horizon.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I doubt it. Many windows applications still are 32 bit only today. Visual studio only got 64 bit support in 2022. Windows has a long history of backwards compatibility and I would expect to be depending on software compatibility layers for a decade or more, even for some Microsoft products.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    The 20 reference laptops doing the benchmarking in this article were running on windows....

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