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Lenovo on Thursday introduced the world’s first laptop based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 850 SoC. The Yoga C630 promises to deliver a considerably higher performance than the first-generation Windows-on-Snapdragon machines because of SoC improvements as well as optimizations made to the OS. Lenovo says that the Yoga C630 can work for over 25 hours on one charge, thus beating every other convertible PC available today.
Lenovo’s Yoga C630 comes in a convertible laptop form-factor featuring a 13.3-inch Full-HD display with multitouch support. The notebook is made of aluminum, it is just 12.5 mm thick and weighs about 1.2 kilograms, thus being both thinner and lighter than the company’s previous-gen Miix 630 2-in-1 detachable PC powered by the Snapdragon 835. Being based on a mobile SoC, the Yoga C630 does not require any fans and therefore does not produce any noise.
As noted above, the Lenovo Yoga C630 is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 SoC featuring eight cores and Adreno 630 GPU. The chip is accompanied by 4 or 8 GB LPDDR4X memory as well as 128 GB or 256 GB of solid-state storage featuring a UFC 2.1 interface. As for wireless connectivity, the convertible laptop naturally has an integrated Snapdragon X20 LTE modem that supports up to 1.2 Gbps speeds over appropriate networks as well as a 802.11ac Wi-Fi controller that also supports Bluetooth 5. In addition, the system has two USB Type-C ports, a fingerprint reader, a webcam, stereo speakers, a microphone, and an audio jack for headsets.
Qualcomm itself promises that its Snapdragon 850 offers a 30% higher performance, a 20% longer battery life, and a 20% higher Gigabit LTE speeds when networks permit. That said, it is more than reasonable to expect systems based on the S850 to be faster than notebooks powered by the S835 right out of the box. Meanwhile, there are other important factors that makes Arm-powered Windows 10 systems more attractive in general: Microsoft has re-optimized its Edge browser for the WoS (Windows on Snapdragon) device, whereas Qualcomm has implemented a 64-bit SDK for developers looking to optimize their code for the WoS. Assuming that software makers are interested in the platform, they will release optimized versions of their programs in the coming months or quarters.
Related reading from Anandtech:
- Lenovo’s Miix 630 Snapdragon 835-Based 2-in-1 Now Available
- Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 850: A Second Generation For Windows
- HP’s Snapdragon 835-Based Envy X2 2-in-1 Available for Pre-Order, Starts at $999
- Lenovo Unveils Miix 630 2-in-1: Windows 10 S, Snapdragon 835, Gigabit LTE, 20 Hrs
- ASUS Announces the NovaGo (TP370): A Snapdragon 835 based Windows 10 PC
- Microsoft Launches Windows 10 On ARM: Always Connected PCs
- Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Windows 10 & x86 Emulation to Snapdragon Processors
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday September 04 2018, @09:58AM (9 children)
Seems redundant to ask whether it runs Linux, when the real question seems to be, can it run Windoze? Oh, the Times, they do Trouble us most sore! On the bright side, it can't really be worse than the last attempt to run Micro$oft on ARM, can it?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 04 2018, @10:17AM
System on a chip? Can you reprogram the chip? I haven't even looked at the idea - I suppose you'd have to flash that chip first. Does Qualcomm make it easy to do so? IF Qual makes it easy to get into the chip, and IF Qual offers drivers for all the rest of the hardware available to Linux, then you can probably swap it over. I don't know that I'd bother though. I can find a lot of other hardware that is easy to switch. The hardware does sound pretty cool though. No fans - 20 hour battery life - small and light - nice machine, if it didn't have Windows in general, or Win10 specifically. Win7 might be nice.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 04 2018, @10:56AM (2 children)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/windows-10-on-arm-limits-briefly-confirmed-no-virtualization-no-opengl/ [arstechnica.com]
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/08/visual-studio-support-for-windows-10-on-arm-development/ [windows.com]
It has some limitations, but not as bad as the shitshow that was Windows RT [wikipedia.org].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @04:56PM (1 child)
Ah, yes ... Windows RT, the Zune of operating systems.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 04 2018, @05:10PM
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday September 04 2018, @10:56AM (2 children)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/windows-10-on-arm-limits-briefly-confirmed-no-virtualization-no-opengl/ [arstechnica.com]
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/08/visual-studio-support-for-windows-10-on-arm-development/ [windows.com]
It has some limitations, but not as bad as the shitshow that was Windows RT [wikipedia.org].
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(Score: 2) by kazzie on Tuesday September 04 2018, @03:26PM (1 child)
Is one of those limitations double-posting?
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday September 04 2018, @03:33PM
Limitation? It's two for the price of one.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 04 2018, @12:10PM (1 child)
It doesn't run Linux yet, no. There's mainline kernel work already being done to make it do so though.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Tuesday September 04 2018, @01:44PM
From what I can tell, the SD845 was mainlined around February and there been multiple rumors about the SD850 being very similar and possibly used by a Chromebook. The rumors' sources are diverse with some being Red Hat / Linaro and distro devs while others being people associated with the original SD845 upstream patches and tech journalists*... But we've had similar echo-chamber rumors spreading about linux support for up-and-comping devices over the years so I wouldn't get my hopes up.
Overall, I think we'd likely be better off with an SD845 android/chromeos laptop/tablet anyhow. Qualcomm probably segmented those SoCs the way they did so they'd be able to charge windows laptops twice as they do android devices but the performance should be roughly the same and the SD845 probably runs a little cooler.
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