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Never seen it this low. This is with 5G. Picked up in Northeast.
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https://windowsonarm.or
https://windowsonarm.or
You obviously have not tried one of these machines. I have been running Windows on ARM for over four years and it's a completely different OS from when the doom-sayers posted their garbage.
2025 post about Labview:
"To be clear, as of right now (circa LabVIEW 2025 Q1), do NOT attempt to install LabVIEW on Windows for ARM. There have been reports of the installer causing serious issues, and the installation process doesn't warn you that you're installing on an unsupported version of Windows."
Someone was able to make an exe that ran on ARM (not that Labview IDE), but few things were able to work, none of the critical things I needed.
2025 post on Solidworks forum:
"I have it installed on a Surface Pro with Snapdragon X Elite and generally think the first hurdle you'll encounter is to do with the graphics driver. SW opens up models just fine, but when you select faces, it takes forever for it to highlight all the edges to show your selection."
I had a video card some years ago with a similar problem. If you can't click and navigate a model instantaneously you basically can't work.
2024 windowsonarm.org post for Matlab:
"Is MATLAB ARM ready?
Yes, supported through Prism emulation
0 comments"
The lack of comments is concerning, so I checked reddit.
"Even if it's not a full on ARM build, any work to help it run better with Microsoft's PRISM emulation would go a long way. Lots of x64 programs run just fine through emulation, but MatLab really struggles to utilize much of the processing power for some reason."
These kinds of problems on a "supported" program does not bode well for their giant list of supported programs.
In conclusion: until these programs run as good or better on ARM then switching to ARM would be counterproductive and spending time and money on ARM would be a waste of resources.
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This was the result of forum searches on programs I spend 90% of my work time using:<br />
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2025 post about Labview:<br />
"To be clear, as of right now (circa LabVIEW 2025 Q1), do NOT attempt to install LabVIEW on Windows for ARM. There have been reports of the installer causing serious issues, and the installation process doesn't warn you that you're installing on an unsupported version of Windows."<br />
Someone was able to make an exe that ran on ARM (not that Labview IDE), but few things were able to work, none of the critical things I needed.<br />
<br />
2025 post on Solidworks forum:<br />
"I have it installed on a Surface Pro with Snapdragon X Elite and generally think the first hurdle you'll encounter is to do with the graphics driver. SW opens up models just fine, but when you select faces, it takes forever for it to highlight all the edges to show your selection."<br />
I had a video card some years ago with a similar problem. If you can't click and navigate a model instantaneously you basically can't work.<br />
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2024 windowsonarm.org post for Matlab:<br />
"Is MATLAB ARM ready?<br />
Yes, supported through Prism emulation<br />
0 comments"<br />
The lack of comments is concerning, so I checked reddit.<br />
"Even if it's not a full on ARM build, any work to help it run better with Microsoft's PRISM emulation would go a long way. Lots of x64 programs run just fine through emulation, but MatLab really struggles to utilize much of the processing power for some reason."<br />
These kinds of problems on a "supported" program does not bode well for their giant list of supported programs.<br />
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In conclusion: until these programs run as good or better on ARM then switching to ARM would be counterproductive and spending time and money on ARM would be a waste of resources.
Most of the programs you are mentioning are not programs that most people would run on a 13" tablet. Most of the programs you're talking about are run on desktop or mobile WORKSTATIONS.
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