In regards to the thin & light ultrabook arena, that is. The new Lenovo Yoga 7i beats Qualcomm in everything but multi core and is x86 compatible with everything. Here’s a chart from the following video:
Especially notable is the huge advance in iGPU performance, rivaling M3 with similar low power. With overall results like these who needs ARM and its compatibility headaches?
Then again, it’s still Windows, so…
A comprehensive leak from Windows Central outlines what's next for Microsoft Surface. It looks like Surface on ARM product line consolidation will have to wait a little longer.
From what Paul Thurott was saying in the latest Windows Weekly, Lunar Lake is going to be a one-off, and when he tested both (AMD's latest and Intel) of them, the Intel one had issues and performed much worse at gaming. While the AMD one had great battery life as well, had none of the issues and was actually really good at gaming with the integrated graphics. He said he was running COD at over 100FPS at 1200p--medium quality!!!!
As I sit here typing on my Surface Pro 11, this is what I had feared. Lunar Lake is close to Snapdragon performance, BUT NO x86 COMPATIBILITY HEADACHES. It is getting a little better, and for my uses (Office 365, Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, Chrome) and the 2-in-1 form factor with 5g is a delight....
But it is your second comment that hits me - "Then again, it's still Windows, so..."
I really like the "Windows only" little differences in Office for Windows vs. MacOS, but I also bristle at the update headaches, constant force-feeding Microsoft and its partners' software, and now they are integrating Copilot into all their Office applications and raising the price of Office 365 because nobody wants to pay the $20/month addon cost of stand-alone Copilot. In fact, they are looking at dropping the stand alone version by totally integrating Copilot into the operating system itself...