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Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 CPU wallops the x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core Geekbench performance
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alessandro lemmy.ca alessandro@lemmy.ca
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deadmyk lemmy.world deadmyk@lemmy.world
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Pointless until someone releases a UEFI capable board that I can install a Linux distro of my choice on.

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woelkchen lemmy.world woelkchen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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How much this translates into gaming is very much another question.

A good way to find out would be Microsoft releasing their own games for Windows ARM. AFAIK only Solitaire Collection is ported to ARM.

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Lawnman23 piefed.social Lawnman23@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-21
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Let’s see real world usage comparison tests, then we’ll talk.

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gravitas_deficiency sh.itjust.works gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
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Yeah so the last couple generations of their cores were supposed to be Super Awesome™, but in real world usage ended up being absolute dogs - not to mention, the lack of a system analogous to Apple’s Rosetta 2 (say what you will about Apple, but that one translation layer was an absolute godsend in terms of ironing out the vast majority of CPU architecture-related hiccups arising from the x86 -> ARM transition) kinda largely hamstrung adoption.

Let’s wait and see how this actually performs.

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Fluffy Kitty Cat slrpnk.net fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-01-27
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Pointless until someone releases a UEFI capable board that I can install a Linux distro of my choice on.

Someone should start doing this

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