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Comment by jorvi

21 hours ago

> Their Snapdragon X laptop didn't do very well, and they likely realize an ARM Windows laptop will always be a second class citizen

Why? So far ARM laptops provide either vastly better battery life for the same performance or vastly better performance for the same battery life. Even versus discrete GPUs.

Within a couple years from now you're gonna look like an utter fool for buying x86 (and Nvidia / AMD / Intel GPU) unless Intel, AMD and Nvidia really pull their head out of the sand.

There's a few specific workloads like local LLM and legacy where you'd want a discrete GPU or x86, but otherwise it is looking like GG.

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theragra  9 hours ago

Are you sure? I've recently watched a video where presenter mentioned how Lunar Lake based laptops are better then any Snapdragon.

For example https://www.pcworld.com/article/2463714/tested-intels-lunar-...

  • jorvi  6 hours ago

    Well, in your article it already clearly states performance tanks as soon as you go on battery. By 20-40%..

    On another very reputable Dutch site, you can see the Snapdragon consistently lead the Lunar Lake laptop, and that's with Lunar Lake set to maximum performance[0]

    There is also a general logic to it: Apple M-series still handily beat anything Intel has, and Qualcomm's Snapdragons beat the M-series they follow up.

    Maybe Intel can truly push x86 to unseen heights, who knows? There's nothing technically stopping them but so far it hasn't beared out. Similar with Nvidia, their RTX 3090 power limited at 340W got beat by an M1 maxed out at 120W. Why isn't the RTX 4090 or 5090 half the TDP?

    [0]https://tweakers.net/reviews/12482/lichte-krachtpatser-met-l...