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It’s been my experience. Switched from a X1 Yoga to a T14s with Snapdragon My battery on my previous PC (1.5 yrs old) would just manage to get me through a me

by ratg13 2y ago

It’s been my experience. Switched from a X1 Yoga to a T14s with Snapdragon My battery on my previous PC (1.5 yrs old) would just manage to get me through a meeting. New PC can go all day on a single charge, and it does seem to be quicker as well.

janice1999 2y ago
What's Windows like on it? Any major app limitations you've run into? To be honest I'd love to try it out with Debian once all the upstream support is merged.
- goosedragons 2y ago
  IME the only major app limitations are games. All the browsers now have a native ARM version. It's possible to get ARM Emacs, R, Visual Studio etc. Most other stuff works fine over compatibility. I have run into one program that would not install because it hard-codes a check for x64. It wasn't anything major and I cant even recall what it was though. I have heard about issues with printer drivers but I don't have a printer or any other devices that don't just use some generic driver.
  - canucker2016 2y ago
    Microsoft released an update to their Prism x64 emulator for ARM, see https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289844/microsoft-windows-on-arm-emulator-prism-update https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289844/microsoft-window... With this update, Microsoft’s emulator will open up support for 64-bit x86 software to use processor extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C. However, it says 32-bit software still won’t be able to detect the new emulator support, so some programs still might have trouble. Supporting newer-than-MMX-SIMD CPU instructions may help some games run on ARM now.
orev 2y ago
Assuming “a meeting” is one hour (you should really provide a lot more detail if it isn’t when making a claim like that), then something was seriously wrong with that PC. My 3 year old Intel PC (Dell 7420) easily gets through 4 or 5 hours before I start worrying about plugging in.

by ratg13 2y ago

janice1999 2y ago

What's Windows like on it? Any major app limitations you've run into? To be honest I'd love to try it out with Debian once all the upstream support is merged.

goosedragons 2y ago
IME the only major app limitations are games. All the browsers now have a native ARM version. It's possible to get ARM Emacs, R, Visual Studio etc. Most other stuff works fine over compatibility. I have run into one program that would not install because it hard-codes a check for x64. It wasn't anything major and I cant even recall what it was though. I have heard about issues with printer drivers but I don't have a printer or any other devices that don't just use some generic driver.
- canucker2016 2y ago
  Microsoft released an update to their Prism x64 emulator for ARM, see https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289844/microsoft-windows-on-arm-emulator-prism-update https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289844/microsoft-window... With this update, Microsoft’s emulator will open up support for 64-bit x86 software to use processor extensions like AVX, AVX2, BMI, FMA, and F16C. However, it says 32-bit software still won’t be able to detect the new emulator support, so some programs still might have trouble. Supporting newer-than-MMX-SIMD CPU instructions may help some games run on ARM now.

orev 2y ago

Assuming “a meeting” is one hour (you should really provide a lot more detail if it isn’t when making a claim like that), then something was seriously wrong with that PC. My 3 year old Intel PC (Dell 7420) easily gets through 4 or 5 hours before I start worrying about plugging in.