There no chance Qualcomm X elite would even work with arm64 macOS. X Elite does not support Metal and macOS has no drivers for X Elite GPU.I fully expect Apple to negate the existence of WoA, they are past the need for making thing like Bootcamp and it works very well virtualized.
I also fully expect Open Core to try and manage with time, booting MacOS on Qualcomm stuff.
And of course Apple will try to block them.
Wouldn't this be in more like MBA space? Chrome + notetaking and office suite with optionally light casual games?lol, of course it's a "strategic move". If you would publicly communicate your product's failure to compete in the market it's supposed to compete in before the product even launches you fail at your job. Doesn't change that Qualcomm will have to fight quite the uphill battle to compete in the PC space.
We'll see. Non metal GPUs were made to work (to a point). As for drivers, we'll see, indeed.
Yeah, the price they are going to ask for it is going to make or break it in that space.Wouldn't this be in more like MBA space? Chrome + notetaking and office suite with optionally light casual games?
If there is a Snapdragon with adequate performance, and much better battery life, and packed in a 13-14 good quality screen relatively thin and good quality casing, at <1000€ it would be a very wide market for it.
I guess I might be grossly underestimating the price they want this to go for-
As such we have to expect them to be priced at a premium as well, not at a lower margin than their phone chips.
Qualcomm is a public business. Performance in different markets is being qualified by the margins achieved there. If margins are worse in the PC market the blowback from shareholders will be huge as economically it means Qualcomm should have invested in markets that offer higher margins to it (like phones as @FlameTail correctly writes) instead and by not doing so wasted (valuable shareholder) money.Why would they have to have same or better margins here?
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According to Golden Pig Upgrade, X Elite's performance is superb even on non-native x86 software. This SoC going to live for very long and Lenovo planning to launch 3 different models using this SoC.
If the delay of Pegasus is related to X Elite G2 (maybe due to porting to N3P process), then we should be expecting two years lifespan out of X-Elite G1.
Here's the thing... even if the performance is halved when running x86 software, it would beat or match AMD Renoir based laptops (I have AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U based work laptops). That's plenty of performance for most tasks.
According to Golden Pig Upgrade, X Elite's performance is superb even on non-native x86 software. This SoC going to live for very long and Lenovo planning to launch 3 different models using this SoC.
If the delay of Pegasus is related to X Elite G2 (maybe due to porting to N3P process), then we should be expecting two years lifespan out of X-Elite G1.
Fine, if perf is the only issue and not perf/watt for which native execution is still easily the ideal situation in a battery constrained mobile device.Here's the thing... even if the performance is halved when running x86 software, it would beat or match AMD Renoir based laptops (I have AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U based work laptops). That's plenty of performance for most tasks.
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