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

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I bet it will be fine with arm fairly quickly now that these chips are on the horizon.

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        I doubt it. Many windows applications still are 32 bit only today. Visual studio only got 64 bit support in 2022. Windows has a long history of backwards compatibility and I would expect to be depending on software compatibility layers for a decade or more, even for some Microsoft products.

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      1 year ago

      The 20 reference laptops doing the benchmarking in this article were running on windows…

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        Being able to run benchmarks doesn’t make it is a great experience to use unfortunately. 3/4 of applications don’t run or have bugs that the devs don’t want to fix.

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          Could you name a few? Just curious if its very specific stuff or apps I might actually use.