Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx is a step in the right direction, as it's the first "PC-class" (more like mainstream laptop-class) ARM processor, a processor actually

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx is a step in the right direction, as it's the first "PC-class" (more like mainstream laptop-class) ARM processor, a processor actually designed with laptops in mind, unlike all the other ARM processors that were put in laptops before that. But even the 8cx is limited to mainstream "browsing-only" type of laptops for one simple reason - there isn't demand for anything else from OEMs right now. So Qualcomm will not design a more powerful chip until the demand appears. This is in contrast to Apple, who can "generate the demand" simply by making such much more powerful Arm laptops available and convincing people to buy them. This is also one of the main reasons why Apple tends to have the more powerful processors in the smartphone market. No OEM is asking for a mobile GPU powerful enough to run advanced video editing on the devices and whatnot. So the suppliers comply.