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[Daring Fireball] Qualcomm’s Awkward Boasting Regarding Its Forthcoming X Elite Platform (daringfireball.net)

submitted 11 months ago by FLUSH_THE_TRUMP@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] fazalmajid@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He's right that Windows' ARM story is still a mess in the absence of anything remotely resembling Rosetta 2. I am looking forward to Qualcomm laptops running Linux, however.

As for dismissing Qualcomm's performance claims, the big difference is Qualcomm bought Nuvia, which was started by Gerard Williams, the brains behind Apple Silicon, and indeed Apple's progress since Williams left has been lackluster and mostly due to process improvements, so Gruber is being both churlish and complacent there.

[–] Rhed0x@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He's right that Windows' ARM story is still a mess in the absence of anything remotely resembling Rosetta 2. I am looking forward to Qualcomm laptops running Linux, however.

It can emulate x86 & x86_64 software just fine.

[–] Ok-Bill3318@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Arm windows literally runs x&6/x64 code just like rosetta2 does.

[–] borg_6s@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think ARM64 can only run x64 apps not x86.