I DITCHED my laptop for Snapdragon X and Windows on ARM. Should I go BACK to Intel?

29 thoughts on “I DITCHED my laptop for Snapdragon X and Windows on ARM. Should I go BACK to Intel?”

1. It will take time bro

2. No need for Snapdragon X with Lunar Lake. My main three production programs run really poorly on Windows 11 ARM. Two of them run fine on macOS ARM though. None of these programs have native Windows 11 ARM versions and one of them never will. One will probably have it in a few years. It's hard to say about the third program.

   The problem with the Prism emulator is that it can kill performance. I had the same problem with Apple Silicon until those programs came out with native Apple Silicon ports.

   My question is: why bother at all for Snapdragon X if you might have a compatibility issue. With Apple, you didn't have a choice because Apple stopped selling Intel computers. Snapdragon X may get there someday but, if you need compatibility right now, just go with Lunar Lake – very good performance and great battery life.

3. Google Drive now works since March 2025.

4. Any VPN won't work on these laptops? Like SurfShark… I have SurfShark yearly… Now I'm seeking to buy Omnibook X 14..
   Will SurfShark work on it ?

5. Also virtualization if I want VirtualBox or run vms we are doomed right now.

6. This guy is a typical Android nerd. Close-minded and misinformed, salivating at specs.

7. Future for laptops is ARM. x86 runs too hot for high performance and too power hungry for battery performance, that's game over

8. Buddy run linux with Xfce you may get double battery life.

9. I actually it's like a smartphone.

10. You can stay if all you need is basic-complexity tasks?

11. Am not a professional user but very lucky to have one of everything just about.

    *mid pack phone > would like to try 4:3,5.8" (duo 2 screen)
    *I have a 8.7" androidy700 >> would pref same width but an inch shorter.
    *Eink 7.8" >>> (perfect, ,maybe a color eink with 60hz when available)
    * Have 13.3 pro360 >>>>would pref 12.5" arm win (with removable unencrypted SSD)
    * Desktop with 121001070 still plenty (if anything an egpu in the future depending on how tech goes)

12. Does python, Rstudio work?

13. Could a smartphone run windows on arm?

14. Wow… You hit every program I was wondering about. Great video, much appreciated

15. Hugely helpful :p . Thanks a lot.

16. Too expensive.
    For Linux-only workloads the ARM would be the 120% sure option.
    Otherwise I agree with the author… if gaming is a must (I need games :-), then need to wait.
    I wonder if someone knows whether Qualcomm also does the Intel ME / AMD PSP way of adding spyware into the lowest-layer in the HW… so that you cannot remove it and any triple-letter agency could potentially use such an MCU for spying. (Every modern ARM has also a companion MCU (CM7 or CM4 for example) that can prep the system before the big cores start… or do comms to offload the big cores…)

17. Dont we have Chromebooks already lol, that failed too 😅

18. I use the Samsung galaxy book 4 edge…ppl hate it….i like it…why? I don’t do anything “professional” so I enjoy it lol

19. Most 3rd party anti virus software like AVG do not support Windows on ARM. Strangely enough, Norton the most hated antivirus software became the first to support it and also seized the market,

20. I'm looking at a Dell Arm processor laptop to replace my latitude i7 2 in 1 partly to see what arm is like as well as to show customers what an Arm laptop can offer. I personally don't use Google apps but us things like Edge, duo, bitwarden although moving to Nord as well as nord vpn. Nice to see a positive review to. Going to be interesting to see who Intel and AMD react to arm especially for not gaming.

21. But now macbooka air M4 series cheaper and more usefull than snap x series

22. cuz of Windows recall I'm out.

23. Wow you are handsome

24. Please help me with one giveaway this laptop, actually I can't afford it

25. My I7 8th gen 2070 rtx laptop is good for 25 mins tops lol.

26. rclone has a arm version so google drive should work using rclone

27. well, if we can use both windows & ios on ARM based Apple laptops, the same theoretichly can be applied on windows ARM laptops, perhaps just is necessary more focus on the emulation technologies…

28. how well perform files transfer speed using a high end pendrive on ARM based laptops?…

29. Bought my Microsoft Surface 13.8" Snapdragon X Elite for my photography travels last September. I use Adobe Lightroom/Classic and Topaz plug ins.
    So far Topaz will not work at all. Many photography apps will not work on Arm processors, so thoroughly investigate the Brand if that is your aim.

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