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Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3 (www.techradar.com)
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Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3::Is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite the laptop processor to watch for 2024?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (21 children)

However, the Snapdragon X Elite is not too far off the M3 Pro, as Windows Latest highlighted. It’s running at about 80% of the speed of this Apple SoC

Uhhh. 80% the speed of Apple's second-tier laptop chip doesn't sound impressive to me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

You forget the enterprise usage for Windows. Even Incremental gain is huge. With x86 emulation it definitely is a huge threat for apple.

Though I am happy Apple did it first. Competition is great for consumers. We'd never have gotten a decent ARM PC if Apple didn't rattle Microsoft's cage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

what's the obsession with ARM? it's just cool right now because Apple did it. But amd64 is just fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The really short version: potential power savings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm just over here waiting for the RISC V revolution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Less battery usage, no need for fans for the same or better performance... ARM is a solid upgrade to PC architecture.

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