I'm looking to replace my family's laptop used mostly for web browsing, word processing, and making sure my cross platform apps work. I have a Framework Laptop 16 AMD Ryzen in pre-order which is supposed to ship next month.
Would a Surface Pro 9 or a Thinkpad X13s be a good choice for this use case?
🦾 ARM / Snapdragon X Elite on laptops with Linux :linux:
Qualcomm has been working to upstream Linux support for this high-end "System on a Chip" device asset!
◉Snapdragon X Elite is a bit of a momentum for ARM powered processing
◉Upon success it'll disrupt the x86-processor (e.g. Intel dominated market)
◉One of ARM's benefits is great battery life
With Snapdragon now teasing at their desktop/laptop chips, everybody is getting all riled up about "Oh, if only Microsoft could now fix Windows on Arm!" and nobody even seems to remember that Linux on Arm is 👌🤌! The world is ready for Arm PCs, just nobody realizes it 😡
Linaro successfully enables upstream Linux support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform - the latest addition to the Snapdragon family.
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I was looking for more specific claims on the perf of the Snapdragon X elite beyond simple benchmark tests. Here is one that resonates with me as a developer... 25% reduction in compile times using Visual Studio. Really promising stuff.
[Of course, so much depends on the solution/project]
Two things that make me go "Hmm... 🤔" with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop processor that's supposed to go up against the Apple Silicon M2 (and eventually, the M3) processors.
Qualcomm and support for non-Windows operating systems
No effiencency cores in a laptop processors?!? What could possible go wrong?
Gary Explains: Qualcomm Launches a 12-Core Laptop Processor to Rival the Apple M2 - Snapdragon X Elite
🆕 blog post -- Oh well, no Gen 3 Snapdragon 7c Chromebooks coming after all
Chalk up another missed opportunity for #ARM based #Chromebooks. Based on code from Google developers, there are no Gen 3 #Snapdragon 7c Chromebooks on the way.
@SomeGadgetGuy I just upgraded from a #Sony#Xperia 1 III to a 1 V and I can't believe the night and day improvement in battery life and thermals the #Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 provides over the 888. Working 12hr shifts the 1 III often needed topped up twice and was in battery saver 24/7, the 1 V these last two 12hr shifts has had 40% battery by the time I got home, no topping up at all. I was excited about the SoC upgrade but I'm pleasantly surprised, I didn't expect this much of an improvement!