Disparity
Reviews of the new ARM laptops have mostly been pretty happy - performance in general decent enough and battery life is better than x86.
Then there’s this article, and notably a video from Level1Techs that points out that sure, the above is true, but the user experience is somewhat crappy - again - and MS really isn’t doing enough to support developers in changing that.
Contrast Apple’s transition to ARM on Macs, where they had a clearly defined transition period and lots of support, and things worked pretty damn well by the time any users bought anything.
Separately, I’ve been wondering how well Qualcomm is going to support here chips. They famously aren’t great for long term support of Android SoCs; have they committed to doing better here? Maybe it’s just not an issue for reasons I don’t understand, or maybe these laptops will stop getting updates after three years for no apparent reason.