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Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up? | Checking back in with Windows 11 on Arm on the eve of the Snapdragon X Elite


Checking back in with Windows 11 on Arm on the eve of the Snapdragon X Elite.

This would be a departure from past Snapdragon chips for PCs, which have performed worse than (or, at best, similarly to) existing Intel options, barely improved battery life, and come with a bunch of software incompatibility problems to boot. (Compare this to Google's Wild West approach to Android, which to this day can’t install basic OS or security updates without specific intervention from chipmakers and device manufacturers). But the vast majority of productivity apps and even games will now run happily on the Arm version of Windows, with no user or developer intervention required.

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