What's going on with Windows Laptops?
Windows ARM laptops are finally having a moment and I’m loving it.
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This development started after renegade project…. Salute to developer 😀.
arc browser is running fine on my surface pro 11, how do I know if it’s being emulated?
ARM is the future.
ARM laptops are a complete flop. It’s a thing for geeks but no corporation are buying into these. MS tried 10 years ago to get Windows on ARM done (W8 RT) and it was a flop. If Intel bumps up battery life with Lunar Lake, Qualcomm powered laptops with soon end up in museums or get used as paperweights. Only 80% of the apps are working on top so it’s really a flop so far. Less than 1% of total sales…and they’re not even cheap !!!
I got the M3 MBP, but next year, I’ll invest on a Qualcomm V2 laptop. There’s still a need for Windows and hopefully the particular app I need will port over.
Just get a mbpm4 boys 😅
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Technology the good ones way too expensive prices between 1kand up crazy. Income 2k to 3k a month.
My issue with Windows is the ‘recall’ feature. That just pushed me back to apple.
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Love that Windows is now "unarmed"
intro music is crazy!
“Waiting for premium matte black” … don’t be so racist, Marques 😂
Apple owns the hardware which made the ecosystem transition to ARM startling fast. Now Intel macs are lagging in support. Much more heterogenous for Windows. I have much less confidence in the software world catching up because there isn’t the same incentive.
In 2025 Windows + ARM is still crap.
Whatever Windows laptop manufacturers are doing, they’ll be copying Apple, forever.
I was pretty shocked to see that most Adobe programs don’t run on this computer. And disappointed that Microsoft isn’t more transparent about app compatibility issues. This isn’t a trade off I was willing to make and wish I knew before buying the Surface Laptop.
pretty impressed and pleased with it so far
Don’t drive too fast, speed kills
big difference between apple and windows on ARM is that apple got rid of all x86 based macs, both mac desktops and macbook laptops cuz it was easy being that they never made gaming computers at all
but with windows, there gaming laptops that need compatibilty with Nvidia or AMD dedicated gpus and those would still dragistically drain laptop batteires and they need full compatibility with steam and the games from there which are made for normal windows first so they work on desktops too
but then also desktops in general, work or gaming desktops dont need to care about the power drain of x86 vs ARM but they still do need to be able to worth for desktop Nvidia and AMD gpus and those need to remain replaceable or upgradable by users and it seems like the future of ARM is more about non removable ram, gpus and ssds
so really looks like windows on ARM is really only a future for non gaming laptops and not for desktops at all, which means manufacturing and support for x86 apps and hardware will have to stick around no matter what ARM does
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The problem is you cant game on it 🙁
I really hate it that Microsoft is trying to imitate macbooks design.
is it good with motion graphics ?
• I sure do want a Google Willow Quantum Chip in my laptop.
I like the hardware, but yuk, I hate Windows 11 so much. I wish I was a computer whiz who could figure out how to install Linux on it. And this thing has the same issue with apps as Chromebooks do trying to use Android apps.
Never trust a Windows device.
Lumia, Surface RT
Microsoft just kill products and waste your money when they feel like it. They straight out stop supporting and you are left with bricks.
ARM still untouchable
Google Drive on Desktop is working in Surface Pro 11, so I believe Google did some updates and it should work in Surface latop as well
Ok am sold…buying a Lenovo Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100, 12C, Max Turbo up to 3.4GHz. I hope few weeks from now I’ll still be all smiles. Thanks for the share!!
Dead pixels in the screen already?
I wonder if wasm would be able to fill in the niche that java filled by creating as a platform agnostic runtime for these applications to run on.
This is not the right laptop to compare with Macs. A Core I9 ZenBook with NPU can be bought with 1TB and 32 GB Ram can be bought for £945 UK/ $1,186.21with oled. You would pay at least twice this amount for a Mac. I have one – it’s really solid and the battery ios fantastic too
Are you still in macOS (pls tell me you are with macOS
My MacBook Air 15 M3 is a joke. Bumped the ram but for real design work it is a pos. No one really tests notebooks we multiple apps open, browsers gobbling up ram etc
I’m surprised nobody talks about WiFi performance. The surface laptop WiFi 6 performance is fantastic. I do happen to have the same laptop in this review and also a new fully loaded M4 Mac mini. The surface laptop blew the mini out of the water with almost twice as fast wifi6 connectivity. Same network and location and I got close to 1.5 gbps speeds compared to only 700 on the Mac. Check it out for yourself if you have a fast WiFi6 connection.
Windows copies MacBook and things go well? who could’ve guessed?
arc browser probably won’t work for a while since the devs gave up on the product smh
The money that they’re charging app developers to be on 🍎’s app store, well, Hey… Microsoft Store Comin…. 👉🏾 $OON!! 🫵🏾🧔🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
the spelling of compatibility is wrong. it’s not "compatability"
I currently main the surface pro x as my main school computer and it holds up shockingly well
Nice review ,Regarding to the compatibly as a graphic design I can see now its works 100% with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator ,Adobe Indesign and adobe premiere pro but its still not compatible with adobe after effects !
Any way I think and hope that in the near future, I will see a Snapdragon processor with a secondary NVIDIA graphics card, for example.
I am very excited to see new generations of this processor.
for sure with the ability to increase the ram .
Hi Marques, really loved the intro… Just a random thought, would you make your next windows intro finish with the bang that comes with the blue screen of death 😆 that would be hilarious.
😏He said, "quantum leap™️".😂😂😂
2k laptop cant run an AutoCAD file…. ok basicaly a 2k youtube machine… no thanks
I was surprised that I had no issues with emulation on the M1 when it first came out. I still wouldn’t want to use Windows instead of MacOS.
Disliked the product
Liked the honesty
Sounds like the technology In my surface pro 9 and surface 11 is just a big glorified windows phone???
These machines are so expensive, I would think it would make more sense to do this on lower end windows 11 s, where all the available software works natively cause they are windows app store app.
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