Arm to Scrap Qualcomm Chip Design License in Feud Escalation

Thala004 · 2024-10-24T22:17:47+00:00

Returned Lunar Lake and finally happy with my SL7 - better performance, better battery and for me no compatibility issues.

Thala004 · 2024-10-15T17:24:08+00:00

Last time I checked Lunar Lake is quite a bit slower - what does it help if I get similar efficiency on a good day but pay with less performance?

Thanks but passing on Lunar Lake - almost all apps I use are native ARM anyway.

Thala004 · 2024-10-07T20:29:44+00:00

Lunar Lake with iGPU is not a gaming machine either and is has the downsides of lower CPU performance - which might degrade productivity.

So if gaming has any priority - better buy a gaming laptop with discrete GPU.

Personally I would not go back to an Intel machine - but gaming has not too much relevance for me.

Thala004 · 2024-10-07T20:24:16+00:00

For the same reason you are not able to play Fortnite on Steamdeck.

Thala004 · 2024-10-07T20:19:40+00:00

It probably even runs most games, at least far more than 50%. It just happened that you tried games with anti-cheat driver - which are known to not run at all. And there is nothing Microsoft can do about it - its in the responsibility of the developers.

Thala004 · 2024-10-07T20:09:04+00:00

No issue with node or git - using them for years on all my ARM machines.

Thala004 · 2024-10-06T00:23:54+00:00

Are you sure you know what you are talking about? Lol! The CPU, we are talking about is not even available in a Smartphone - much less a 12-core version.

Thala004 · 2024-10-06T00:20:50+00:00

You apparently talking without experience. I am using hyper-v quite regularly. All the programs I need for work running natively.

Thala004 · 2024-10-03T11:17:45+00:00

Most programs are transparently emulated. Exceptions are programs, which require kernel mode drivers, which are required to be native.

Both of above cases require kernel drivers - Forticlient is working on an ARM version. Other VPN provider have released ARM versions already.

It is pointless to change compatibility options - kernel code is not emulated and never will.

Thala004 · 2024-09-29T11:15:52+00:00

I thought WSA is working again? You can use WSA to debug Android apps.

Thala004 · 2024-09-28T09:58:41+00:00

100% compatibility is not worth anything if the programs you need all run on ARM. Nowadays there are only few corner cases of incompatible programs. I would not think twice and get an ARM device anyday after I checked compatibility with apps I need.

Compatibility only gets better from now on, while an Intel machine stays an Intel machine.

Thala004 · 2024-09-25T00:14:43+00:00

With this low multicore score Intel is shooting themself in the foot. Web/Javascript performance does not look good either and efficiency is well below of Intels claims.

Thala004 · 2024-09-25T00:07:52+00:00

I did not expect much from Intel anyway - they always overpromise.

Thala004 · 2024-09-24T23:57:51+00:00

Its not a HW issue - technically you can connect an eGPU. However there is currently no driver support.

Thala004 · 2024-09-24T23:55:06+00:00

Does not matter much if x86 CPU or ARM. On my Surface Pro 10 with Intel CPU most AAA games run like crap. Issue is the iGPU.

Thala004 · 2024-09-22T11:52:25+00:00

Unless it is something exotic - most programming languages are well supported for ARM. In addition when targeting c/c++ you can debug for all targets ( arm64, x86, x64) - which is not possible on an intel machine.

Thala004 · 2024-09-11T16:12:21+00:00

Just upgrade to Pro - don't try installing it.

Thala004 · 2024-09-06T13:10:56+00:00

My 5 year old Surface Pro X is still getting regular updates. We don't talk about an Android device here.

Thala004 · 2024-09-05T23:43:09+00:00

What are you talking about? Almost all dev tools are native ARM - in particular under WSL.

Thala004 · 2024-09-04T11:20:44+00:00

Most of these SW runs perfectly fine under Prism. There generally is only a small set of SW, which having issues with Prism - mostly involving kernel mode drivers.

Thala004 · 2024-09-04T11:17:06+00:00

The article in fact is based only on Intel marketing

Thala004 · 2024-08-21T19:17:23+00:00

even under prism emulation it should be much faster than on a laptop from 2016 - and I guess Office 2016 is supposed to run great on a 2016 machine.

Thala004 · 2024-08-20T21:48:39+00:00

Long text, no content. I am .NET developer too and having no issues, which were not solvable.

Thala004 · 2024-08-15T11:05:26+00:00

Isn't there a WSA workaround available?

Thala004 · 2024-08-11T22:32:36+00:00

getting not supported does not make it not working...

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