By now you’ve probably heard that Qualcomm is pushing hard to get its Arm-based processors into Windows machines, including the new Surface devices revealed in May. Without getting them into our lab, we don’t know…
Samsung recently announced the Galaxy Book4 Edge line of laptops at Microsoft’s Surface event, now equipped with Qualcomm’s hotly anticipated Snapdragon X Elite processors. In addition to the more efficient and AI-infused processor, they’re also…
As you might have noticed, Microsoft and Qualcomm are pushing hard for Windows machines running on the latter’s new Snapdragon chips. Pretty much every major laptop manufacturer just announced new Arm-based models coming this summer.…
It never rains, but it pours. It seems like every major PC manufacturer is on board with Microsoft and Qualcomm’s push for Arm-based laptops, and HP is no exception. The first two models, coming as…
Today marks a historic day for the Dell XPS 13: it’s the first Dell XPS 13 notebook without an Intel chip inside. But no, it isn’t an AMD Ryzen chip. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite powers…
Today might be the coming-out party for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chips and a sizeable number of laptop partners, but Intel wants to remind you that it will reveal its next-gen Core Ultra mobile chips,…
We’ve seen Windows-based PCs built around Arm processors before, but this year Microsoft and Qualcomm are pushing for a new generation of more powerful, more efficient machines. And OEMs are onboard in spades. Acer’s first…
Microsoft has been trying to get Windows users to adopt machines based on the Arm architecture (the same type of chips that power smartphones and other small devices) for years, with limited success. But the…
I’m an Olympic gold-medal trash talker — on the level of the best NBA haters raining 280-character S*&T talk on X.com micro-seconds after your team’s tearful exit from the play-in (sniff, go Warriors). Example: When…
For too long, PCs with Snapdragon Arm chips inside of them have been a mixed bag: some native apps run well, but others have stuttered and hung if they weren’t coded correctly. Those days may…