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Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How well will they run, though?

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[–] turbowafflz 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If linux support ends up being reasonable for these I'll seriously look into one for my next laptop. I'm always so envious of how my friends with apple silicon macs can just never really worry about battery life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lenovo already ships these https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx/thinkpad--x13s-(13-inch-snapdragon)/len101t0019

Lenovo claims 28 hours of video playback when running Windows. Bad part is that they don't allow this configuration without an OS, and it's quite expensive.

I don't know much about them beyond knowing this. But this looks promising. Unfortunately, ARM laptops are usually quite locked down unlike x86.

edit https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X13s & https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Thinkpad_X13s-- well, it might even work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is putting Linux on a macbook not an option?

[–] jqubed 3 points 9 months ago

I haven’t looked in a few months but it didn’t seem like the Asahi Linux project was necessarily ready to be a daily driver yet, but they’ve made a lot of progress in just a few years with a small team of volunteers and as far as I know no support from Apple. Seems like it’s only a matter of time before they really get it nailed down. For now you can run ARM versions of Linux in virtual machines on Apple silicon.