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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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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most things are fine on arm these days

MacOS? Yes. Linux? Sure. Android? Obviously. Windows? Not a chance!

And seeing this is designed for laptops, your options will be either Linux or Windows. The comment is on point.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The benchmarks from this article are running on Windows 11 Arm...

[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh don't get me wrong, it definitely runs!

But have you tried using it as a daily driver? Most things will break. I discovered this the hard way by installing it in a Raspberry Pi

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Was it just because it was arm, or because it was a raspberry pi and had too little of everything else windows likes to hog up? There's several major laptop manufacturers that are planning to sell laptops with these. I doubt that would be the case if they were all functionally broken to the consumer.