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2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip::We've already reported on Qualcomm's new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj

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[–] 51 points 2 years ago (4 children)

People probably said the same thing when Apple dropped PowerPC for x86, there's going to be an awkward transition period but when it becomes a standard you'll feel differently.

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

    yeah, but were not talkin some niche audience like apple powerpc products. lets not pretend apple had actual marketshare.

    this is messing with legacy windows products that are deeply ingrained the world over. it will be far messier than that apple crap

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

    I had a Mac G4 just before the transition from PPC and while that was painful (since x86 emulation sucked) this is a whole different kettle of fish.

    These days I’m running all sorts of VMs for research and UTM or QEMU on macOS ARM just doesn’t cut the cheese. On a laptop, sure, ARM is fine. Heck, even in a data centre it’s fine, but on workstations, ARM is too sluggish for virtualisation or anything except ARM. Not to mention the shocking state of Windows 11 on ARM and how loads of Windows components don’t actually function properly or even run. Defenders GUI doesn’t even open!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Apple yes, windows? Not so sure, in windows there's alot of x86 games and everything, people just won't drop that you know? And with Linux gaining traction in gaming community x86 going to live at least another decade, ONLY way people going to drop x86 if you can launch x86 apps on arm without terrible drop off performance, while apple have that, others don't, so until then except mobile devices only apple and niche laptops gonna be on arm, because gaming and other legacy software people not gonna drop until you can launch it on arm without terrible drops of performance

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Apple is a pretty closed system made for graphics designers and people who don't like choices. It isn't as simple to make it happen for the pc market.

    I also doubt Microsoft will go arm on the next console. They've been enjoying all the easy ports to PC for their games and having to port over games based around arm to run on x86 would probably cost a lot more money and time. Game makers wouldn't like it.

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