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Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

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163 points wmf | 1 comments | 24 Sep 25 22:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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evanjrowley ◴[24 Sep 25 22:46 UTC] No.45366827[source]▶
Today Qualcomm CEO stated[0] that the combination of Android and ChromeOS, e.g. Android Computers, will be available on Snapdragon laptops. Maybe these X2 CPUs will be in those laptops.

[0] https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/ive-seen-it-its-inc...

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otterley ◴[24 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45366841[source]▶
Does anyone buy these?
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makeitdouble ◴[24 Sep 25 23:45 UTC] No.45367359[source]▶
For people complaining about battery control and android emulation on linux, ChromeOS is a boon.

You effectively get an actual Linux distro + most of android, with a side of Chrome. It's way closer to "a real computer" than an iPad for instance, and only loses to the Surface Pro/Z13 line in term of versatility IMHO.

It really wasn't bad, my only deal breakers were keyboard remapping being non existent and the bluetooth stack being flaky.

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rossy ◴[25 Sep 25 00:26 UTC] No.45367717[source]▶
I got a ChromeOS device a few years ago and it was great. I think they get an underserved bad reputation from being the locked-down devices you're forced to use in schools, but a personal ChromeOS device is a capable computer that can run any Android app or desktop Linux app.

Though having said that, in the past year I've replaced ChromeOS with desktop Linux (postmarketOS) and I love it even more now. 4GB of RAM was a bit slim for running everything in micro-VMs for "security," which is what ChromeOS does. I've had no trouble with battery life or Android emulation (Waydroid) since switching.

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pjmlp ◴[25 Sep 25 05:35 UTC] No.45369593[source]▶
Not really any, Crostini has plenty of restrictions.

Cool if one wants to CLI stuff alongside Web and Android apps, but that is as far as it goes for GNU/Linux, with many yes but.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/1792b43f...

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1. ewoodrich ◴[25 Sep 25 15:37 UTC] No.45374095[source]▶
I've used VS Code on ChromeOS with the GPU acceleration flag for many, many years without any issues on a couple different devices (x64 and more recently, arm64). It can even hide the window chrome so looks 1:1 with VS Code on any other platform. And many other GUI Linux apps where the Android version feels too much like a toy in comparison, it's an incredibly versatile feature for dev work.