ARM Windows: A Nerd's Review (Lenovo C630, Snapdragon 850, ARM64)

Samsung Galaxy Book 2:

One project that compiles great on ARM Windows: Dosbox-X:

I finally get a Windows for ARM device, and compare it to the old versions of Windows for PowerPC and similar platforms.

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[ZuLuuuuuu]

I remember I was looking forward to this device but it never got released here unfortunately. It is nice to see a detailed review, thanks.

[pawsinmyface]

There were some clips I forgot to include while editing and I didn't put any background music for this video, but this is the first time I've made a long video like this in a while and I decided to get the PPC NT box out again.

There's also the rare NT 3.5 build on BetaArchive for PPC, I'm going to try getting that working.

[clickpond]

I got the M1 macbook air and the performance, battery life, and thermals have absolutely blown my mind.

[Daniel-lcyo]

You don't need to go to the Mozilla ftp to download Firefox, the regular installer stub is downloads the ARM64 version just fine.

[BurbleBenis]

somewhat unrelated, i didn't realise windows had their own 32 bit emulation for their ARM products, do you have any idea how well Dwarf Fortress runs under such emulation? have been following 32 bit emulation somewhat from the Pis perspective so hearing about a windows-developed general purpose option has me interested on how Dorf would work under such a situation

[anom]

Thanks for the video. Got one of these from Amazon for around $300. You mentioned unlocking the bios. What are the benefits by unlocking the bios (if any)? And how do you do it?

[JayJay-]

Great video as always! The first part certainly brought back memories. Back in the late 90s I got my hands on a Motorola PowerStack (what a weird computer) and later an IBM RS6k using PPC.

I ran Windows NT on both of them and it worked fine but was more or less useless as I had no software other than Solitaire and Notepad. AIX existed for the PowerStack but I didn't have a copy of it. Tried running Linux but it was buggy as hell and not really usefull so I ended up getting rid of the PowerStack.

Eventually found a copy of AIX for the RS6k which was useful and stable, used it as a server for a while.

[PreciousAlpschindler]

Gaming is really impressive on Snapdragon 850 which could give a middle finger to powerhog Intel HD Graphic

[Cakebattered]

I have this same device and my kid uses it via the Edge Browser as a Chromebook alternative for school. I think its brilliant. Someone should compare Windows on Arm vs Chrome OS using the 2 variants of the C630.

[torondin]

Talking about WinNT on non-x86 doesn't make you sound like a manchild in a bad part of town, it makes you sound like one of the wisebeards of olde.

[Lic]

Really? Nobody is using clang? Where you get that from? It tends to be the most used compiler these days. Most of C++ code from Google is clang compiled now. Playstation SDK, Android, Mozzila etc. So I guess almost everybody, but Microsoft (even though that is changing, their clang support in Visual Studio is great, they just saw people needed it for cloud) and Linux kernel, switched to clang.

[Alpha]

"which is going to be the next big thing, of course, because it's Apple" lol