• simple@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Most of the reviews I’ve seen so far are a bit lukewarm. Performance and bettery is good, but they’re barely better than what Intel and AMD offer. They promised 20+ hours battery life, we get around 12-13 which is in line with other chips.

    The screenshots in the article are from Dave2D’s video which compared gaming laptops to the X Elite. Laptops without a dedicated GPU could outperform it in battery, and are usually cheaper. Not to mention the new generation of chips are reportedly way more efficient. Kind of underwhelming.

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      9 months ago

      Performance and bettery is good, but they’re barely better than what Intel and AMD offer.

      And both AMD and Intel have pretty exciting new architectures coming soon with zen5 and lunar lake.

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      9 months ago

      I wanted an Arm based Linux netbook or laptop for many years ever since the multi-core Smartphones came out around 2008.
      Already back then the Intel based Netbooks were laughably bad compared to Arm, and couldn’t even play video properly, while you could do that with ease even on early smartphones with Arm at 1080p.

      But for some reason Arm has given Linux very little love with their GPU drivers, and AFAIK they still don’t support it well, so now I say go fuck yourself.
      Arm is NOT a good company for Linux. How they missed that opportunity for a strong market entry for over a decade I simply cannot fathom.

      If AMD made an Arm CPU with Radeon graphics, that would be cool. Because AMD has good open source drivers on Linux, and has generally good Linux support.

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        9 months ago

        You’re right. We shouldn’t use proprietary bullshit and hope the corporations do the right thing.

        RISC-v is the way.

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          9 months ago

          Framework just announced a RISC-V motherboard you can get which is pretty awesome. Obviously designed for developers etc, but its a good step.

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          9 months ago

          In theory yes, in practice I’m not so sure. Risc-V is BSD, so whatever company chooses to make it, can change it as they like and completely ruin compatibility.
          I don’t think it will work, because the BSD license doesn’t protect it from whatever abuse any maker feels like.
          I do follow it as a potential alternative, and alternatives are always nice.

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      9 months ago

      BIOS locked to Windows keys. Tuxedo is promising a Linux version of the same SOC soon, though.

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    9 months ago

    I think the wave of hype sort of overshadowed a couple of key points about these chips:

    • Performance & efficiency aren’t leaps & bounds ahead of the Intel & AMD crowd
    • ARM Windows laptops are still Windows laptops

    Battery life is hardware and software.