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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by snaky on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:30AM (#17826649)
New Snapdragon 845-based Chromebook is on the way.

> It comes as Microsoft continues its work with Qualcomm to optimize Windows for devices powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips, including the forthcoming Snapdragon 850, which Samsung used for its first Arm-based Windows 10 laptop. So it appears there is some momentum behind the concept.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/arm-on-windows-10-chromebooks-...

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by KozmoNau7 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:17AM (#17827429)
I think ARM could be a viable contender in the low-power laptop segment, kinda maybe possibly.

However, I used to own a Tegra K1-based Chromebook, and that thing was sl-o-o-o-o-o-o-w, and it only got worse with successive updates. I'm not really optimistic when it comes to performance, absent highly-optimized apps. The state of Firefox and Chrome doesn't really fill me with confidence.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by snaky on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:27AM (#17827516)
The state of Firefox and Chrome shows more than anything else that the many cores is good thing and especially that RAM size is the king actually. Modern smartphones with 6 and 8 GB of RAM make a difference.
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