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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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[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also important, will it be available and affordable. I don't much care about arm laptops if they cost an arm (heh) and a leg to buy and then a couple fingers to import into the mythical and exotic land of not-US.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering a severe lack of software support on ARM they better have a massive cost incentive

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As per usual, Linux is fine with ARM.

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

I’d imagine most open source software will just be perfectly fine on ARM on Linux… but I do wonder a little bit about the occasional x86 binary blob we run. They’re generally pretty rare in Linux land… but Steam games are probably not going to have a great time. I’ve used binfmt_misc to run ARM binaries on x86 transparently before using qemu, and it works perfectly fine… but it’s dog slow.

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If anything Steam's support for something else other than i386 is long overdue.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Linux works well but sadly most people don't use Linux

[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most people use Linux, just not desktop. If people are okay with Android, they'd be okay with Gnome as well.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If they sell snapdragon laptops with Linux preinstalled people would buy, sadly they're more likely to include Windows (which has bad support).

[–] scrape@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Android is Linux. Linux is the most popular OS in the world.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was specifically referring to desktop Linux, most people wouldn't be interested in a laptop running android.

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

Yet Chromebooks have been a major element for the past 5 years, with more units sold than Apple. I know it's not technically GNU/Linux. But there's still a Linux core underneath required to run Chrome OS.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ChromeOS is popular because it's included in cheap laptops and the operating system is essentially idiot proof (at the cost of being able to do practically nothing)