Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

We’ve been using X Elite Snapdragon laptops (Thinkpad T14s and Yoga Slim running Ubuntu’s concept images) to build large amounts of ARM software without the need for cross-compiling. The hardware peripheral support isn’t 100% yet (good enough) but I’ve been impressed with the performance.

ARM seems to be popular in the server space and it’s nice to see it trickling down to the PC market.

How's the battery life?

Trickling? Apple’s been on ARM for five years with great results.

To be fair, they did say "PC" specifically. It's not uncommon to consider that a category that doesn't include Apple (e.g. the "I'm a Mac" "I'm a PC" ads from years ago)

People just need to quit using the term "PC" to refer to desktop or laptop hardware that happens to be running Windows. Laptops running MacOS are "personal computers," as are desktops running Linux, or effing phones running Android, for that matter.

Hard to say, we keep them on the chargers most of the time. I haven’t measured it. No one’s complained yet, for what it’s worth.

I think the issue is that there's clearly as need for a term for the category of "things that usually run Windows (but you can also probably put Linux on it, and like, even one of the BSDs if you're feeling adventurous)". PC isn't a great one from a linguistic perspective, but there's not an alternative I've heard that seems likely to catch on. There probably also should be a better term for "laptop/desktop", since as you mention "computer" itself is not really narrow enough if you're being pedantic, but at the end of the day, right now the only really differentiator we have is context. In the context here, it was honestly more clear clear what was meant by "PC" in the top-level comment than it was whether the person responding to it actually misunderstood or was trying to make a point.

Yes, and Tahoe was recently announced to be the last MacOS that supports intel hardware at all. Future versions will require Apple silicon.