What do we think about the Snapdraon X Elite (ARM for windows)

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Everything is pointing to it being great, synthetic benchmarks look good so far and given the power/performance it looks like it can compete with the M3/M3 Pro series

previous ARM for windows has been crap, but I feel like windows is catering towards ARM way more now. Especially with emulators and windows 12 rumours hinting at being good for ARM

 

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What do I think about ARM and Windows?

windows 12 will be our saviour!

 

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Just yesterday I was watching a documentary on YouTube about the Amiga and how much better it's hardware was then anything else that was around at the time. It got me thinking just how popular and widespread the Motorola 68000 CPU was during the 80's and early 90's yet it very quickly went out fashion as x86 became the dominant instruction set due to backwards compatibility.

The only other serious contender since then was PowerPC which was used in Apple machines before they switched to Intel but it never got any traction from Windows users. ARM has all drawbacks that those other standards had, it would be nice to have an CPU that could run Windows applications but I suspect it would be little more then a novelty.

maybe at the beginning, but the death of x86 seems very near in my opinion. Im sure it will still be around for a long time, but if these snapdragon laptops are good for battery and performance, then these x86 chips simply cant keep up efficiency wise

 

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I thought I read that modern CPUs translate the external x86 instruction set requests into a risc style internal instruction set that is then run through the logic. So in actual fact while they appear externally x86 , internally they aren’t … and that one of the benefits of arm instruction set is that it’s easier to do that translation stage. ( note , I could be very wrong about the above! )

Arm on windows? I think it’ll end up being like how the iPad is at the moment. Ie decent processors and hardware but slightly held back by the os not quite letting users do all that they will want to.

thats interesting I didnt know that, if thats the case then maybe it'll live on longer.. In that case I guess the translation layer should be the things thats improved.
both from arm to x86 and also vice versa