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This is major news, but not because of a new laptop is being released or because Microsoft is competing with Apple. From the news article: > But today's new Su

This is major news, but not because of a new laptop is being released or because Microsoft is competing with Apple. From the news article: > But today's new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are the first Arm devices to be the primary Surface offerings rather than a side offering, and they're the first to credibly claim that they can both outperform comparable Intel- and AMD-designed chips while offering better battery life, a la Apple's M1 chip in 2020. Microsoft's ARM-powered Surface Pro sounds like the first credible step to move the whole consumer market away from the x86 family, and thus kill Intel's stranglehold on how people use computers as their daily driver. This is a historical change, and one which might as well spell the death of behemoths such as Intel. People are no longer bounded by an anti-competitive stranglehold on their choices to pick Intel products over any conceivable competitor, and this happens at a point in time when Intel is already struggling.

Refusing23 2y ago
> outperform comparable Intel- and AMD-designed chips sure, in some tasks im sure the gamers will have a thing or two to say what made the transition easier for apple was their rosetta translationlayer i wonder if windows have similar. If i recall, the video i saw on an arm-chip powered windows laptop from a while ago, the performance was terrible and a some software just wouldnt run
- OptionOfT 2y ago
  I do wonder about this. Is there something about ARM that prevents having a PCIe slot with an AMD / NVIDIA card? And I suppose the game can be recompiled to ARM, for as long as you're not using any architecture specific code?
- frankvdwaal 2y ago
  It does have a translation layer. Microsoft calls it Prism, which immediately made me think of the NSA's PRISM program, in which Microsoft was an enthusiastic collaborator. I guess this is a nice way to shadow search engine results for "Microsoft PRISM".
- geon 2y ago
  Dotnet managed code wouldn't need any translation layer, right?
Unfrozen0688 2y ago
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Refusing23 2y ago

> outperform comparable Intel- and AMD-designed chips sure, in some tasks im sure the gamers will have a thing or two to say what made the transition easier for apple was their rosetta translationlayer i wonder if windows have similar. If i recall, the video i saw on an arm-chip powered windows laptop from a while ago, the performance was terrible and a some software just wouldnt run

OptionOfT 2y ago
I do wonder about this. Is there something about ARM that prevents having a PCIe slot with an AMD / NVIDIA card? And I suppose the game can be recompiled to ARM, for as long as you're not using any architecture specific code?
frankvdwaal 2y ago
It does have a translation layer. Microsoft calls it Prism, which immediately made me think of the NSA's PRISM program, in which Microsoft was an enthusiastic collaborator. I guess this is a nice way to shadow search engine results for "Microsoft PRISM".
geon 2y ago
Dotnet managed code wouldn't need any translation layer, right?

Unfrozen0688 2y ago

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