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Comment by _ache_

2 days ago

Snapdragon is already canceled so I guess, they just don't care about this device. It's Microsoft on ARM. Sad to say, but don't expect full support or quality update on this.

Ref:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrA2Xe9f7e8 - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-snapdragon-d...

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kllrnohj  2 days ago

The Snapdragon Dev Kit is canceled. Snapdragon as a whole sure as hell isn't canceled, and Windows on Snapdragon isn't, either. There's loads of Windows laptops using Snapdragon with more continuing to release.

OptionOfT  2 days ago

No, the dev kit was cancelled.

There are ARM laptops out there from multiple manufacturers, and there is a SnapDragon 2 on the horizon.

motorpixel  2 days ago

It's just the "dev kit". Snapdragon for the laptop form factor is alive and well. You don't need a devkit for a laptop running Windows and QCOM easily figured that out.

999900000999  2 days ago

I wanted to order one of these and then Qualcomm cancelled it.

Then I knew Windows ARM probably wasn't going to make it. Why any technical person would want a PC( not including Macs)that explicitly can't run Linux I'll never know.

  • pjmlp  2 days ago

    Technical person that knows UNIX since being introduced to it via Xenix in 1993, and has used plenty of UNIX flavours since then.

    Some of us like the experience of Visual Studio, being able to do graphics development with modern graphics APIs that don't require a bazillion of code lines, with debuggers, not having to spend weekends trying to understand why yet again YouTube videos are not being hardware accelerated, scout for hardware that is supposed to work and then fails because the new firmaware update is no longer compatible,....

    • g947o  2 days ago

      Your comment appears to address the question "why use Windows" (even though the answer doesn't really make sense to me), but that's not the question asked in GP. The question was "Why buy a Windows on ARM device"

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    • 999900000999  2 days ago

      Ok.

      But with an x86 device you can run Windows and Linux. With an Windows Arm device it's probably only going to work with Windows.

      It's not clear what real advantages Arm gives you here.

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