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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 04 2018, @08:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-blue-screens dept.

A report from AnandTech:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @02:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05 2018, @02:58AM (#730598)

    Microsoft completely missed the boat, letting iOS and Android get deeply entrenched before making their first feeble moves into mobile phones
    MS owns many many many patents on cell phones that both android and ios pay for. Why is that? They have been trying to crack that market since 1998. Their *mistake* was re-writing the OS again instead of using NT. Their second mistake was one Jobs basically told the carriers to have 'unlimited' data or no cool toy. If MS had done those two things differently the market would have been wildly different. But instead they treated the cell market as a step child that needed only marginal looking after. They should have owned that market. They missed that boat. The iPaq should have been the stepping stone for that. Instead it was quickly forgotten and buried by the carriers who wanted to hold data hostage for exorbitant fees. If Jobs had not cracked that nut we would still be charging 50 bucks a month for 10 meg data plan.