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Then you just have to wait years for all the software written for Intel to be released for ARM else run in an emulator (like Rosetta for Mac). Not a fun experience.

I'll probably still go with AMD and Intel as of now. Although AQualcom has been claiming big performance and efficiency gains over x86 counterparts, there is not a single thrid-party review and all is coming from Qualcomm. On top of that. all the benhmarks Qualcomm is showing synthetic benchmarks like Geekbench and Cinebench which are extremely optimized for ARM architecture. There are a lot of skepticism among the tech enthusiasts about Qualcomm's claims and I can guess why.
If you have good idea about omputer Sccience then you need to understand the parent arcchiteccture of x86 and ARm respectively. ARM is based on Reduced Instruction Set Computer architecture or RISC whereas x86 is based IS or Complex Instruction Set Architecture. Now RISC can be very efficient for executing instructions, has lower latency but they need extremely low level integration with the Operating System and the OS you're planning to use, unlike CICS proccessors like x86 which can run on varios platforms far easily. Qualcommay be coming with a very beefy ARM based PU but unless Microsoft and the Software vendors optimize their software exclusively for that specific architecture, you never gonna see full performance and it will take a long time as in Windows Platform, now both Microsoft and Software vendors need to optimize their architecture for three different type of CPUs.
For Apple, it was easy as they are using their tailor made Processor, own OS, and software library which needs to be optimized for a single architecture.

I guess I missed it. I was sure I saw another article where the reviewer was playing with X on site, but maybe I made it up.

Or maybe you did not read that article as well (Just joking).

The point I was trying to make is these benchmarks are completely standard despite being synthetic. Intel and AMD can optimize for them just as much as Qualcomm.

What I am telling you is that even if the SOC (System on Chip) is capable hardware wise, unless the atual appliations are not optimized for that platform for Windows on ARM, you won't see real world gains and that proess is pretty time taking where Qualomm and Mirosoft have to work with all those third party vendors and far more ompleated that optimizing some synthetic benchmarking apps. Not sure which point you are so confused about. There is probably a reasn why we did not see a single benchmark for real world applications like ideo encoding, Adboe Photoshop and ideo editing apps like Adobe premiere.

That's true. My use case is Linux workstation so I don't really care how long Microsoft and Adobe take to optimize their apps. I think most people will get these laptops for 10+ hours of battery life and working in a web browser so I doubt it matters to many.

What is ARM?

Very tempting price, but note Staples only has a 15 day return policy. The ARM laptops come out on the 20th of May. I'm holding off until then.

Here's the 8945 HS version for 100$ more pre order.

https://xoticpc.com/products/asus...20Warranty [xoticpc.com]

Very tempting price, but note Staples only has a 15 day return policy. The ARM laptops come out on the 20th of May. I'm holding off until then.

Here's the 8945 HS version for 100$ more pre order.

https://xoticpc.com/products/asus...20Warranty

Eh, good luck with Microsoft having seamless compatibility with x86 like Apple does with their Rosetta Stone translation layer