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A Developer's Review of a Snapdragon X Laptop

by wezm on 7/15/24, 9:22 PM with 7 comments

  • by rami3l on 7/16/24, 2:20 AM

    Thanks for sharing the experience! At Rustup we're also getting ARM64 Windows-related requests recently, so I'm very curious about how well these machines actually do as a daily dev workstation. Looks like your Yoga 7x performs even better than I thought it would!

    I'd like to add that actually there is an official prebuilt Rustup binary available for you at https://win.rustup.rs/aarch64, maybe that will lead to less translation overhead for your Rust workflow :)

  • by benecollyridam on 7/17/24, 11:12 AM

    Did you try the experimental, raw disk image for a Debian installer that Snapdragon provided? https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

  • by sixfiveotwo on 7/16/24, 6:11 AM

    Thank you for the article, very interesting!

    How is the copilot key recognized on OpenBSD? Does it appear like an extra Function key?