I’m currently contemplating on buying a new laptop with the new snapdragon x elite chips but can’t fully grasp the pros/cons of owning an ARMM-native pc vs the more common x86 one. I guess my main concern is if it will be a worry long-term wise? I only have a low-moderate info on tech hence the question. TIA!
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ARM64 is more energy efficient, thus why you have better battery life with notebooks than x86 equivalent in terms of raw power. But when it comes to having a single CPU with best raw power, nothing beats x86 currently.
Because they are different platforms, applications compiled for one platform cannot run on other one. So we have big legacy issue, because many people are still using some old tools compiled for x86 and if some tool won’t work on someone’s new notebook, they won’t migrate to ARM64. That’s why to make migration easier companies come up with emulators like Apple’s Rosetta which also uses special piece of hardware included with M chips to make that emulation faster and more accurate. Windows solution is still average.
In both cases this is not 100% foolproof solution.
X86 is still the choice of PC Master Race because of how many games still are compiled only for x86 and you can get the best performance in games only by buying the most power hungry x86 chips.
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