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Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 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

[–] hackitfast 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where's the installation iso?

[–] hackitfast 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's not a safe place to get isos

[–] hackitfast 2 points 11 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's my point. Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to outside of the surface

[–] hackitfast 1 points 11 months ago

I mean yeah you're not wrong. If only the Surface wasn't so absurdly overpriced for what you get.

[–] merthyr1831 8 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Thanks to raspberry pis and other ARM SBCs there's been a lot of ARM native support on Linux. Windows really hurt themselves with their initial ARM support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months 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.