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Given that this is a gaming sub, I should mention that you can't game on these things beyond the most basic things that could run on the cheapest non-gaming laptops from 5+ years ago.
Steam launches, but doesn't support it natively. Since it's emulated it tanks battery life. The graphics are so slow that anything other than extremely old games that are emulated in dosbox or similar perform worse than what i'd expect out of a 10 year old business laptop. There are exacly 0 ARM64 on windows game builds distributed by steam.
If you want something "different" to game on the answer is to switch to linux imo. At least there's substantial development and resources going towards wine/proton and steam/heroicgameslauncher. I moved my current gaming rig with a 9800x3d and 9070xt over to a popular linux distro and it works well, but does require tinkering for things like FSR4. In games without FSR4, it basically just works. The performance can be better or worse than windows, but so far even with bleeding edge games i'm really happy. There's even native linux builds for lots of games, and substantial overall developer support.