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Back in December 2017, Microsoft and Qualcomm announced a partnership to pair Windows 10 and Snapdragon Arm processors for ultra-thin LTE-connected netbooks with a 20+ hour battery life. This Windows-on-Arm initiative has faced several stumbling blocks, with the the first-generation HP Envy x2 and Asus NovaGo criticized for poor performance and app compatibility in Windows 10, due in large part to an inline x86 emulator for apps written for Windows on Intel or AMD processors.
Now, a group of programmers and device hackers are working to bring proper support for Ubuntu to Arm-powered Windows laptops, starting with first-generation Snapdragon 835 systems, like the HP Envy x2 and Asus NovaGo. The aarch64-laptops project on GitHub provides prebuilt images for the aforementioned notebook PCs, as well as the Lenovo Miix 630.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @06:47PM (1 child)
64-bit arm doesn't have as many problems as 32-bit. 64-bit is pretty much just like any other architecture.
(Score: 1) by jbruchon on Friday February 15 2019, @01:38PM
It still has all the issues I mentioned, it's just less inconsistent with supported instruction sets.
I'm just here to listen to the latest song about butts.