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Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 (www.pcgamer.com)
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Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Linux has been a fully working on arm for much longer than Windows so there's that

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That’s not what I meant. Microsoft has been working on Windows ARM, sure, but has anyone else been working on Windows ARM? As far as I know you can’t even get Firefox on ARM.

    I suppose that they have a compatibility layer, but it’s nowhere near the performance of Rosetta 2.

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