Mac Fanboy Tries ARM Windows Laptops

I went to the store and bought a new ARM laptop to see if it competes with the MacBook Air.

There are finally new ARM computers for Windows. The last time we tried them, they were... terrible. But Qualcomm has got silicon—the Snapdragon X Elite—that they say now competes with Apple silicon. And Microsoft has completely redone Windows 11 ARM compatibility with their new Prism emulation layer—similar to Rosetta for macOS. And not only can it recompile x86 binaries to ARM, it can even do graphics API translation for DirectX games! Can a thin and light laptop game better than a MacBook Air? Perhaps! In this video, we'll discuss every laptop that currently ships with the X Elite, buy one, set it up, and see if it can hang with the best-selling laptop in the world: Apple's MacBook Air.

[chrism]

Rookie mistake expecting to be able to actually use a new Windows computer on the day of purchase.

[reesmorris]

Missed title opportunity to call this an ARMs race

[ENNEN]

I only clicked this because I misread "Mac Fanboy" as "Mac Femboy"

[JamesR]

"Let's see if I can install the entirety of Steam faster than the than a single-- It's already done."
🤣

[jarretta]

I got second hand anger from that windows setup process. Why did you put me through that?

[jgames]

Your use of a low, indoor voice while reviewing the laptops proves you're one of the good ones man.

[boogymano]

If you walked into my store, I’d probably poop myself

[jlnho]

As a person who uses Windows everyday, the struggle is real.
Every time I restart my PC after an update, Microsoft gonna ask me “oh do you want to connect your phone? Do you wannn-“

[kirishima]

That first boot experience - forced motherboard and windows updates, phone syncing, settings, 365 onboarding, popups from shovelware, incorrect clock - is infuriating.

Why can’t PC manufacturers replicate the unboxing experience of a mac? They’ve had 20+ fucking years.

[StacheMoney]

Best Buy Microsoft Advisor here! One small correction: At 7:18 you say that the Surface Lineup is not carried at Best Buy stores and is only displayed there. I can verify that this is not the case, however after the launch the Surface lineup quickly sold out and a lot of Models cannot even be ordered, which is likely what you encountered. Small nitpick, and I am sure others have likely mentioned that already, but I figured I'd say something just in case. Love your content!

[leviwuzere]

"More recent games"
"Red Dead Redemption 2"
RDR2 is 6 years old mate...

[depotwest]

Nice that Lenovo doesn't appear to have any stickers on the laptop like many of the ones you looked at at the store. I can't believe they are still doing that!

[biochipper]

I really wish that gaming wasnt so restricted to windows because I genuinely hate running it on my machines.

[OttuR_]

i think the most impressive thing in this whole video is that the alarm never went off when you went to pick up the laptops in the best buy

[Bezroth]

Snazzy Labs: Remember when Edge was good
My Memory: 404 file not found

[TheBen]

Hi. First - love this video.

I am a finance professional so I use microsoft excel every single day. Every single youtuber will run video rendering benchmarks, but for the love of the god can someone please tell me how the Snapdragon processors hold up when working with hundreds of thousands of rows of data in excel.

For those not in finance, excel is the sole reason why we require windows laptops. This will never change.

[uioui]

I am pretty sure that the AV1 encode test was run purely on the CPU on both machines. You will need to go into the video tab to change to any hardware encoder.

[ArthropodSpidey]

10:24
"at least this has facial recognition which is more than what can be said about the iPhone."
Quinn was indeed having a stroke.

[HaikuOezu]

Not to take anything off the Snapdragon Elite but the the reason Edge launches super fast is probably because by default it has Startup Boost enabled so its literally already loaded in memory when you boot Windows

Any subsequent launches looked within margin of error

[Celphirio]

Was laughing my ass off throughout the video at your reactions, but one of my favorite parts was when you made the Death Stranding guy jump to his death while calmly saying "yeah, so 30-40 FPS" 🤣