Thread 106191903

Is WoA good now?

A lot of software still isn't rewritten for ARM, which makes it kind of useless at the moment.

>>106191903 (OP)
No.

>>106191903 (OP)
I bought a $380 WoA laptop but have only used it a little because my mother is a psychopath and tossed her ThinkPad at my dad because she was angry and brok it and ended up needing that machine to get online, and I figured she wouldn't smash "my" laptop (correct). She says it's "much faster than" the i7-10gen/16GB X-series running too many browsers with too many tabs. It seemed fine to me.

When the devices get down to around 400 then i might grab one.

>>106191938
And that will NEVER change, btw. ARMFAGGOTS will never have ANYTHING.

https://drive.massgrave.dev/en-us_windows_10_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2021_arm64_dvd_e8d4fc46.iso
its ok if you use the correct version

WoA is only as good as the software that runs on it.

i doubt it atleast not till box86 runs flawlessly its the reason windows handhelds failed the mainstay of winturds is copy/pasting exe's everyone tried copying paint.exe to their phones and were shocked it wouldnt work

>>106191938
If you just need a casual laptop for web browsing and media it shouldn't be a problem.

>windows 11
>ai slop
>emulating x86
wait for linux to get better drivers for the snapdragon chips

>>106191974
Does massgrave activation work on WoA? For both Windows and Office? Is so I might just get it

>>106192144
All the most common programs are native now. Chrome/Firefox, 7zip, VLC (in beta), Office etc. For a home device it's perfect.

>>106192133
True, but for example, I chose a Macbook over a Snapdragon machine because of the Creative Suite.

>>106191903 (OP)
It had potential but it's been like 10 years since snapdragon deal for windows on arm and they still didn't deliver anything good.
Extremely unlikely this will change, just bury it.

>>106192205
Fair enough, though most people do not do any creative work. Nvidia and mediatek are also making arm chips, even AMD. And Intel is dying. x86 will only exist for desktops in 5 years

>>106191938
It has extremely good emulation. I'm on a mac and I actually have a W11ARM VM I use for Guild Wars because despite its low system requirements it runs at a crawl when running it through Whisky (it's an x86 exe and it's 32 bit, Apple Silicon has no 32 bit hardware) but in the VM it runs perfectly.

>>106192159
yea it does

>>106192280
Nice. Have you found any programs that don't work? Or any other downsides in general? And is the battery actually better?

>>106192318
i dont think theres any difference. its just a different architecture for the sake of it

Windows ARM devices sold like hot dogshit and Microsoft gave up on them internally. WoA and Xbox are both dead.
If you know you know

>>106192262
I think it's horseshit you have to add another layer of resource expenditure for compatibility. That's like completely against the whole idea of RISC.

>>106192567
Why is Nvidia making CPUs if it's dead

>>106191951
That's because the 10th gen i7 was only a quad core at most when it came to laptops. Your snapdragon has better clocks and more cores.

>>106192186
so its equivalent to a phone/tablet? for laptop use that's not good to me