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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

MS has been working on ARM for years. To think otherwise is naive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah but has anyone else?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah well, Firefox definitely has a Windows arm native build available on their website but yeah most applications certainly won't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, I stand corrected. I'm surprised I didn't see it before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sure - but apple has been "working on" ARM since 1981. Microsoft is definitely on the back foot here.