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Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by Manuel_D on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:46PM (#47226414)
There's a growing set of ARM windows laptops that might bite into the Chromebook market. The surface laptop 7 is pretty nice and comes in both large(ish) 15 inch and small 13.8 inch form factors.
Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by hypercube33 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:06AM (#47230776)
All of the ARM laptops are priced as premium business models in the $900-1700 range and kind of fall down in that space - Qualcomm until recently even refused to release any drivers to anyone not a developer partner and it's honestly still not even close to consumer/business friendly. The hardware is capable of doing what people need the culture around it is just not aligned.

Also it's a joke to run OpenGL on Windows ARM (it fully works just no one makes it anything easy)

My x13s laptop can almost run A tier games without a fan which is impressive but it really feels disconnected and unsupported from all parties making these laptops.

Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by wasfgwp on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @08:53AM (#47232317)
I think there is almost zero overlap between the premium laptop market (Surface laptop) and Chromebooks.