Windows Arm PCs could be SO much better

What's going on with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite 'Mac mini killer' Dev Kit?

I take a look at the current Windows on Arm landscape, and discuss what I think Microsoft and Qualcomm should do to make Snapdragon X truly 'Elite' among Arm platforms.

Some of the videos and resources I mentioned:

- Qualcomm Dev Kit Announcement: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2024/05/qualcomm-accelerates-development-for-copilot--pcs-with-snapdrago
- Qualcomm Dev Kit on Arrow: https://www.arrow.com/en/products/c8380-12c-mp-32g/thundercomm
- Ampere Altra Dev Platform: https://www.ipi.wiki/products/ampere-altra-developer-platform?variant=42970872053922
- Level1Techs Microsoft/Qualcomm Dev Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0
- Box86 Compatibility List: https://box86.org/app/
- ptitSeb's latest Box86 game demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWkcusaGAg
- Portal 2 bug with 128-core CPUs: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/portal2/issues/367
- Linux on Snapdragon X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfO1IDFMrQ
- Linaro's work on Linux for Snapdragon X: https://www.linaro.org/blog/qualcomm-and-linaro-enable-latest-flagship-snapdragon-compute-soc/
- Charbax's video from Embedded World 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEaGyCAS9fY
- My previous video on gaming on the ADLINK Dev Workstation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=argfZlPZKdY

"Paid promotion" disclaimer: I was not paid anything to make this video, but some of the equipment I show in the video (namely, the ADLINK workstation and Ampere Altra Max CPU) were provided over a year ago with no obligations attached. I still like to disclose when I show any equipment I didn't personally pay for, because that lets you, the viewer, adjust for any potential bias that may come through.

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Contents:

00:00 - Where's the Snapdragon Dev Kit?
00:44 - Marketing vs reality
03:14 - Arm is amazing (on Linux)
04:08 - Gaming on Arm (on Linux)
05:31 - Should you buy an Arm HEDT instead?
06:23 - We need something better
07:39 - Maybe Linux is the answer?
08:21 - Dear Microsoft, Dear Qualcomm