[laylower]

I'm typing this from a snapdragon x elite HP. It's fine really but my use is fairly basic. I only use it to watch movies, read, browse, and draft word and excel, some light coding.

No gaming - and I came in knowing full well that a lot of the mainstream programs don't play well with snapdragon.

What has amazed me the most is the battery life and the seemingly no real lag or micro-stuttering that you get in some other laptops.

So, in all, fine for light use. For anything serious, use a desktop.

[Thorrez]

Running Linux?

[adastra22]

WSL or Docker is the only way to run Linux on these, it seems :(

Windows 11 with all the bloatware removed isn't a terrible experience though.

[jdibs]

What is it about it that makes it unsuited for anything serious? The way you describe it, the only thing it's not suited for is gaming, which is not generally regarded as serious.

Many people including myself do serious work on a macbook, which is also ARM. What's different about this qualcomm laptop that makes it inappropriate?

[znpy]

> What's different about this qualcomm laptop that makes it inappropriate?

Everything else around the cpu. apple systems are entirely co-designed (cpu to work with the rest of the components and everything together to work with mac os).

While i'd love to see macbook-level quality on other brands (looking at you, lenovo) tight hardware+software co-design (and co-development) yields much better results.