Comment on Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 7 months agoYeah this is pretty much my thoughts exactly. I wish there was an ARM (or eventually maybe even RISC-V) Framework laptop, maybe someday
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It all depends on how hard Arm SoC vendors like Qualcomm, Samsung, and MediaTek push in that direction. Once they figure out the compatibility stuff, the average consumer won’t care that it isn’t x86, and would happily take the better battery life offered. At that point pretty much every laptop maker will have at least one Arm laptop available, and Framework will probably follow suit, as they managed to get the AMD version released faster than I expected for a new company, and their 16" laptop shows they are not only innovative but also ambitious, so I’m sure this will be in their pipeline.
As for RISC-V, it doesn’t seem to have a lot of steam in the desktop/laptop direction, but I’m sure we will see a lot of SBCs with these, increasing public interest and eventually even desktop/laptop… If I had to guess, its going to be at least a decade before we see a mainstream laptop brand offering a model with a RISC-V SoC…