The Apcsilmic DOT 1 Mini PC is one of the only desktop PCs on the market to run the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Compute Platform. This makes it the most energy-efficient Windows PC you can buy and quite likely the smallest too. I wouldn’t say I have had the best experience with Windows on Arm in…
Three years ago, Qualcomm invited me to London to learn more about Windows on Arm and the new Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC Platform, and I later reviewed one of the first Windows on Arm devices, the HP Envy X2. It was an adventurous move by Qualcomm. ARM-based chips don’t natively run x86 applications, so they…
Windows on ARM has had a shaky start and struggled to gain traction, but with the new Microsoft Surface Pro X with the new SQ1 processor co-engineered with Qualcomm, things are starting to look rosier. It is claimed that x86-64 emulation will be arriving shortly allowing 64-bit programs to be compatible with Windows on Arm,…