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2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip (www.pcgamer.com)
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2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip::We've already reported on Qualcomm's new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Nope, I'll never run windows on anything other than x86 (for my desktop).

I'm very happy with my ARM MBP for work, but I occasionally pull up software written decades ago (either music production plugins or games typically) on windows and it still runs, some of the companies that wrote that software no longer exist, so no first party patches will be coming.

[–] ultra@feddit.ro 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll never run Windows.

[–] sugartits@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Windows 11 on ARM will probably that software without modification.

Assuming it runs on Windows 11 at all...