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Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor (www.windowscentral.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] NOT_RICK 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

Being able to run benchmarks doesn't make it is a great experience to use unfortunately. 3/4 of applications don't run or have bugs that the devs don't want to fix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could you name a few? Just curious if its very specific stuff or apps I might actually use.