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[@pf100andahalf]

Customer: my game is stuttery Tech support: did you try touching the screen?

[@raven4k998]

I seriously expected better from ARM because intel and AMD can atleast do 20 to 30 fps with their low end gaming laptops how is ARM so bad ass if it cannot even match that?

[@pf100andahalf]

@@raven4k998 arm is not x86. They don't use the same instruction set so with arm, games have to go through a translation layer and it slows them down. It'll always be like that until games are written for arm instead of x86.

[@raven4k998]

@@pf100andahalf wait wait wait hold on a sec ARM uses Instructions😲 you have to be lying they make RISK CPU's that means no instructions that's why most games will not run on it because most games need and utilizes some cpu instructions and since arm has non it cannot handle running those games at all silly🤣

[@pf100andahalf]

@@raven4k998 You seem to not know how any of this works and you also seem to not really care how it works, you just want to say things.

[@v5hr1ke]

ARM-based hardware will run properly on ARM-supported software, and same goes for x86. It requires translations to run x86 software on ARM hardware. Imagine playing Cyberpunk 2077 on your Samsung phone. x86 and ARM are different instruction sets that are built for different kinds of hardware, and ARM is more suited for efficiency rather than power.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

The fact that the little screw covering rubber feetsies aren't glued on and pulling the back open doesn't feel like you're defiling fragile plastic actually has me slackjawed in relatively positive surprise.

[@lilsammywasapunkrock]

Yet there is almost no reason to even open it. Why make one laptop where only one part can be replaced, the easiest to open?

[@JessicaFEREM]

@@lilsammywasapunkrock The problem is that it's impossible for them to not solder the ram on. ram speeds take a nosedive on SODIMM modules. realistically this is the most repairable they can get, at least until CAM is released I guess. the battery is also replaceable so realistically they made it as repairable as they possibly could.

[@lilsammywasapunkrock]

@@JessicaFEREM I mean kinda. I don't know if they made it easy to replace the keyboard or touchpad, the battery might be difficult to get out. I get it, it's essentially an entire computer on a chip, that is how ARM works. I am glad they did what they could, but it's the least effective package they could have possibly done it with.

[@cygnusghedepereu6885]

You ate the propaganda, did you test sodimm vs soldered? It’s all bulshit marketing anti-repair, they save a few cents for the slots

[@tjCooper88]

​@@lilsammywasapunkrockYou miss the point. It's meant for easier repairability

[@poeticsilence047]

I am more impressed with how easy it was to open the laptop. The magnetic "clips" are a nice touch.

[@CrumpetsNBiscuits]

yeah I fuking hate how secure and tight they make laptops. I couldn't even open my new victus, waiting for some plastic tools so I wont scratch it any further

[@angelaigs1133]

@@CrumpetsNBiscuits you can use an old credit/id card, worked for me so far.

[@joe--cool]

That's probably the only good thing about it. A door would've been enough though since the only thing that you can do inside is change the SSD.

[@1centimetre]

You can change the SSD, Speakers, Surface Connect Port, fan, batteries, heck even whole board if it ever gets damaged and you keep the rest of the device as is. Repairability, Upgradability don't always go together but this new line-up of devices help push forward Louis Rossmann's definition of "owning" a product.

[@joe--cool]

@@1centimetre That's what I call fixing. What upgrades are there on offer for the speakers? Repairability is great but that should be standard. The important part is: you cannot upgrade the RAM without a hot air station.

[@SiStockbridge]

That "you can raise a family" line was pure gold mate 🤣

[@davidmartineziii7343]

I lolled at that time and everyone in the room looked at me 🤣 I wonder how long he spends writing his scripts or if he has help…. Because his stuff since the early days has only gotten better with time 😁

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

it's a worthless pos computer because for the price anything of the same price can do 50 times better performance then that Microsoft pos computer😭😭

[@mikewifak]

I also perform better when someone periodically touches my face. Leads to some weird weekly meetings with my boss. Relatable.

[@joelcarson4602]

Insert obligatory DBZ Abridged "Goku and Freiza discuss happiness" video... "When you're Happy and you know it clap your hands" WHAP!-WHAP!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

It's the opposite for me. Face touches lead to system crashes on me.

[@sergiocecilio5938]

finally! a real world test review! not just useless benchmarks

[@bierrollerful]

9:20 TIL Dawid has the touch that gives you 30 more FPS

[@raven4k998]

what the hell I thought arm was supposed to slaughter Intel and AMD and it does not better or worse then a cheap noob gaming pc

[@jamesbrendan5170]

@@raven4k998 what is this misconception??? most software (especially games) is written with only x86 in mind, so Intel and AMD chips will definitely still perform far better. ARM is not supposed to win against Intel/AMD in terms of raw power or whatever, and buying a Snapdragon laptop for gaming is like buying an Apple Silicon Mac for gaming. also, "cheap noob..."??? you shouldn't be shaming people with budget builds, dude.

[@raven4k998]

@@jamesbrendan5170 you say that arm has instructions which is why your wrong arm does not have instruction why do you think the error message on why that game won't start is because no avx that's an x86 instruction set also x86 can do division which arm cannot do which a lot of x86 games use whether or not you care it's used to make the games work more efficiently since arm cannot do division it cannot run games which use division or x86 instruction sets since the cpu cannot do that sort of crap also I am not shaming someone for buying on a budget I am shaming them for gaming on an arm when it cannot game withx86 games there's a difference when people on youtube says computers cannot do division I shame them for saying such a thing when x86 can do it without issue ARM is not all computers and when someone makes a video with the name all computers cannot do division that requires shaming people for that level of click baited stupidity

[@disposable_hero1725]

You got the Touch, You got the Power YEAHHHHH!

[@raven4k998]

@@disposable_hero1725 get an ARM if you don't think you can handle the power of X86😜🤣

[@stefaniordache3795]

0:03 I don't know what you're talking about, a PowerPoint update is very exciting

[@nonyabusiness-f9e]

the fact that this thing runs cyberpunk at all is quite frankly amazing. imagine a chip like this (or slightly better) in your standard phone in a few years.. insane. with the massive adoption of these chips it seems like only a matter of time before arm is the standard in the "cpu" space.

[@burrfoottopknot]

They are decent when running native code / APi but the translation layer looks half baked at best

[@mintymus]

An Intel or AMD x86 with an iGPU runs it way better...

[@martinbernath]

What do you call a massive adoption? Few models of broken laptops that are more expensive than a decent x86 laptop with a dedicated gpu? Not that im a fan of apple, but their arm transition worked because they have control over hardware and software. Microsoft can barely do software these days. Remember windows RT? These arm laptops will die out just like windows arm tablets did when windows 8 was a thing.

[@dudeguy8553]

@@martinbernath So long that Apple Silicon exists, Microsoft and other Windows PC vendors will keep trying to compete with Apple in the ARM department. If these products existed in a vacuum, where there was no competition in the ARM PC/Laptop space, then yeah they'd just fall flat on their face after a few sloppy generations. Also true on the software part. Windows 11 is like a dystopian nightmare full to the brim with bloatware.

[@boynextdoor931]

You could already run cyberpunk on the snapdragon gen 3phones. It was kinda stuttery but playable.

[@darkelemental]

Tbf with respect to looking like a macbook..... There's only so many things you can simplify before they all look the same crappy shade of metal

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Gaming on Mac is now pretty great with Crossover. Qualcomm has got a lot of catching up to do in regards to gaming performance

[@epos_rising]

How easy is it to use Crossover for a casual pc user ?

[@doctorqwerty]

I did not expect you to do one of these videos on the new Windows on ARM devices so soon

[@poeticsilence047]

He's moving up in the world. 😢

[@Bolli1983]

not sure if this is the first surface product you've used, I've used several and all of them had weird stuff going on one way or another. performance fix when touching the screen didn't really surprise me :) i fondly remember my surface 3 pro that would refuse to wirelessly connect to a display and a Bluetooth mouse simultaneously

[@Vtarngpb]

Wait, Power Point has an update ?!?!? 🤤

[@mikearisbrocken8507]

Same thought, I hope it is easier to make macros on it now.

[@RusRus72]

securety updates exist coming from a guy who pirated office

[@GamerErman2001]

That touching the screen improving performance makes me wonder if it goes into a low power mode unless you touch the screen. Like the computer doesn't think it's being actively used unless the touchscreen is constantly being used. If that's the case it seems like a massive oversight.

[@vangelis7]

Santa clara california is getting a microcenter too !

[@RustedCroaker]

My condolences

[@Zxanonblade]

Wait really? Nice!

[@vangelis7]

@@Zxanonblade yup q3/q4 2024 i believe

[@tdm3bros]

if only there was a way to buy from micro center outside the USA

[@Sh0gai]

Im glad to see that you at least tried to play Destiny 2, not a lot of people in reviews care or even acknowledged that game when it comes to reviewing gaming PCs. I hope to see you use it as a bench mark more in the future. Also keep up the amazing work love the vids

[@robluce2111]

YES thank you for trying Destiny 2, that is the one game I had been curious about, particularly for BattlEye alone, and you answered my question pefectly. THANK YOU! :)

[@alyessamaddox7022]

I recognized that "phasing in" visual effect the moment you said it--that wasn't prism, that's the auto SR feature of the laptop kicking in, and... not working great. I've had it pop in on a couple of games I've played--and how I've fixed it is by changing the rendering resolution of the game, and then changing it back. That usually gets rid of the errors for me. I bet turning on FSR did something similar.

[@loganmerriam5985]

The touch screen making it better has to be because of them being variable refresh rate displays. It's probably going to like 30 HZ trying to save battery because it doesn't realize you're gaming until you touch it. Then it goes to a higher refresh rate so it doesn't seem slow

[@Paulo-c3n]

That "touchboost" thing reminds me of a feature from hypnospace outlaw that when you shake the mouse, the pages load faster lol

[@AlMarche90]

About the artifacts. Could it be that Automatic Super Resolution stuff that Copilot+ promises?

[@thomasbezak1090]

Totally won't be swept under the rug and abandoned like the past ten Microsoft ARM product attempts.

[@darranrowe174]

Does that "last ten Microsoft ARM product attempts" include the Surface Pro X and the Surface Pro 9? They have actually been ramping the tablets up since 2019 so they are releasing this knowing that they have a market. The interesting thing this time is that they are putting much more power into the devices.

[@ToTheGAMES]

You are right, it wont. ARM is gonna be big as desktop/laptops in the coming years.

[@GraveUypo]

this isn't microsoft though, it's qualcomm. arm desktop is inevitable. i mean, it doesn't necessarily mean it'll be the best option, but who's going to complain about extra options?

[@potatomongrel]

Oh no getting bad windows 8 RT vibes from this shit. We were told never to recommend the 1st gen Surface to corporate clients from the get go.

[@darranrowe174]

@@potatomongrel This isn't the first generation of anything. Microsoft has had ARM64 Surface devices out since 2019. That was when they originally released the Surface Pro X. What's more, the ARM64 version of Windows isn't a locked down mess. It has similar capabilities to the x64 version, meaning that you can run third party unsigned binaries on it. With the Surface device I have, you can even disable Secure Boot in the firmware, and at that point, you can use any ARM64 UEFI bootloader.

[@yamaddie]

this just reminds me how big of a stepup proton actually was and how difficult it is to get right

[@eldardb]

I think that the 8-bit effect may be due to windows 11 upscaling games by default if an npu is present.

[@Kim-fm2vo]

That visual artifact you were seeing in Cyberpunk was almost certainly the TAA failing to work properly. It could be Prism or even the GPU driver. FSR working better confirms this :) I also noticed a grid-like pattern on all of the games you tested (it's particularly noticeable on the graph on GTA V). This is likely a related issue

[@u3pyg]

Pretty sure you were overclocking this small ARM with your static electricity when you touch it. Used to happen on old phones.

[@novafiddler1712]

I love your commentary bro. You are definitely an original youtube personality

[@theodorawong2143]

Cyberpunk looks like a WALL-E game I played on my DS lite from 2008, but at least that game was stylized that way for parts of it.

[@ArtemisKitty]

It's an interesting move in technology progression, sure, but there is still a huge elephant in the room: compatibility with old hardware. On both a professional and gamer level, there is a LOT of stuff that simply won't work through prism, such as audio/daw equipment, midi interfaces and controllers, external dongles for security on POS terminals etc, and of course things like eGPUs will have no drivers either. This is a large enough shift that it will require all those industries to catch up before it can be reasonable to consider this a takeover/change, rather than just an alternative option for people who only need a simple PC.

[@DirkMensonides]

I think windows frequently tries to bring other apps 'to the front' and will mess up some gaming sessions. Happens when I play MCC, despite turning off notifications etc. Have to ctrl alt del to quick quit out and rejoin. Maybe it's similar to the touch screen 'fix' you had goin on here. Always funny commentary, Dawid.

[@MisantropoFilantropo]

I would like to see what happens when you get rid of Windows and put an ARM based linux distro.

[@THEpicND]

Wait those rubber feet are awesome!! EDIT: unpaused and watched a bit further and the back being held on by magnets is also awesome!!!

[@apersonontheinternet8354]

It's just simply that game devs don't have a reason to go out of their way to make games compatible. There needs to be some game 'oriented' PC product to come out that runs on ARM (and to launch well to give devs incentive) Like a new Steam Deck or something of that sort.

[@r34ztune11]

To be honest, for a glorified phone CPU/iGPU, this is a pretty great result. The 40ish FPS in GTA V is 10fps better than my Phenom II X4 / HD5750 1GB GDDR5 managed in 2015 (even tho that was much smoother). Still, this ARM stuff is bad for us enthusiasts as the focus seems to be on making everything soldered and unupgradeable.

[@frequentfrenzied]

Everything being soldered is more of an ultrabook thing than an Arm thing. All of the x86-64 based machines are doing the exact same thing. They are focused on making everything as thin as possible, so daughter boards and the easy upgradeability that they bring are out. The good thing is that hardware requirements are not rising anywhere near as fast as they used to be for the type of workloads that machines like this are built to handle, so you don't really need to upgrade the computer during the typical life-span anymore as long as it was reasonably spec'd to begin with. Still, if you are worried about that, then hopefully Framework will release a compute module with an ARM processor on it as they always make their computers as upgradeable as possible.

[@kiki83607]

@@frequentfrenzied not really, snapdragon only supports LPDDR5 soldered memory, so normal DDR5 with replaceable memory will not be available even for a big laptop like 17', on Intel or AMD you can buy a a laptop with replaceable DDR5 memory modules, framework laptop it's a total BS with proprietary BIOS/UEFI

[@Chaos_God_of_Fate]

The reason they made it so easy to open is because there's nothing to upgrade (other than storage)- kinda like 'hah hah, it's easy but pointless!' and it does make replacing/upgrading the storage way easier. I've fixed a lot of laptops and ya (50-80 over the years)- I tried refurbishing them for a while but always broke even so stopped as a result. Lappies are a pain in the bum to take apart/put back together. That it can even run Cyberpunk is kinda impressive for an ARM computer.

[@Jsong-tc5oj]

Is it just me, or does the thumbnail face remind you of hide the pain Harold?

[@Flopster101]

6:14 that's what it looks like when TAA (temporal anti-aliasing) is broken or disabled

[@hill2hell]

Pretty much how it's supposed to be actually, people thought they could make a cellphone as fast as a mobile laptop cpu, but in reality they've just made a laptop as slow as a cellphone. 🤣

[@another3997]

One thing you can't accuse these high end ARM chips of is being slow. When you consider these games were running through an x86 emulation layer, it's pretty astonishing performance. ARM and x86 are very different architectures.

[@GraveUypo]

@@another3997 the cpu is fast, but the GPU in these things is pretty damn slow. that's why the gaming performance is terrible. the compatibility layer only costs ~10% of performance compared to native apps --- when it works

[@hill2hell]

yes pretty impressive that it runs the games, but making compatibility patches for software affects performance too. So after compatibility patches will the performance improve or get worse?

[@TabalugaDragon]

it's not just about how fast it is, it's also about stability, many of the things are just not supported at all.

[@TabalugaDragon]

@@another3997 some youtubers showed it's like 10% performance loss, so not impressive compared to Intel and AMD iGPUs, especially considering that those have stable, working drivers.

[@itsmilan4069]

6:31 wooooh woooh woooh that some tesla cybertruck steering level of input lag

[@hydroxy]

Hope the budget windows arm laptops will be available on market soon for us non-hi-end common users

[@anb4351]

This Processor itself in this thing is still pretty great for a first gen product. The issue obviously is Prism x86 to ARM emulation. Hopefully in the next few years, we will see more Apps and Games supporting ARM natively. Also the GPU is also really impressive for a first gen GPU. GPU in this thing is Qualcomms own design and again for a first time it is really impressive. Again I suspect Directx drivers aren't great as qualcomm previously only made GPU's for Android Mobile's which were opengl & vulcan.

[@MrGrucha]

The other issue witch switching to ARM64 may be peripherals and drivers, I had a problem with a docking station that did not worked correctly with M1 MacBook, turned out it used a ethernet chip from Realtek that only have 32bit drivers and I had to buy USB network card that supports 64bit ARM systems, to plugin to my docking station. And it was not an old docking station, its 2020 model. I'm guessing that until ARM64 will become more popular a lot of hardware manufacturers may not offer drivers for it.

[@dylan_00]

I would love to see you try Ubuntu with box86/box64, as I think that "translation layer" is much faster than the Windows implementation (at least, last I heard)

[@OmegaEnvych]

to be fair, when I bought my M1 Macbook Air, in one year of using it on MacOS 11 and MacOS 12 I had more Kernel Panics than shots of booze I ever drank... And I was quite a drinker few years back

[@kiki83607]

you should return to the store for a warranty

[@dlewis9760]

I've read in comments to other videos that the real power savings when not idling isn't all that great. Under load, ARM may win, but not by the margins being touted.

[@stefanwalsh8034]

Ohh exciting, a new dawid video, I've been watching them on a mix for days 😂

[@flat_stickproductions209]

I was interested but ended up with an 8840HS Ultrabook and my 4090 machine at the house.

[@PyroCatus]

10~20% worse battery life for better compatibility and performance. An easy choice to make.

[@ALmaN11223344]

@@PyroCatus Correct, and per the Phawx it's even generating more performance per watt under load than the paltry SDX. Apple retains ARM dominance for now, maybe in a few years Qualcomm can get competitive there like they did with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

[@calebmenker988]

Good choice, these new apu's from amd are quite impressive and clearly arm on windows is just not there yet

[@flat_stickproductions209]

@@calebmenker988 it's good if you are looking for a Mac like experience. Edit a video or photo and just have GPT write your papers.

[@flat_stickproductions209]

@@PyroCatus in context though the 8000 and new Ryzen are still good on battery 10-16 hours, that's far longer than I need away from a plug.

[@cornballflakes24]

finally a microcenter in NC

[@snakeplissken1754]

Probably just me, but in recent years the development in laptop cpu´s and gpu´s was so great that you nowadays have to look very closely to find an actual good low power laptop for a decent price. One that offers you enough for basic daily tasks, youtube etc but focuses on battery time. The market seems flooded with ryzen 5/7 laptops (or intel equivalents) that include often a dedicated gpu (rtx 3050/4050 etc). Not saying those offers are bad, but when it comes to only running daily tasks, youtube videos, browsing a ryzen 3 with lowest integrated gpu would do. (or any equivalent of an extreme low power apu). And when they come around with something that fits that... they go nuts with aluminium, expensive this, expensive that and turn it into a luxury piece or artwork that then costs at leasts as much as your average mid range performance laptop. Sure you can go cheap and buy used but those usually just do have the same battery runtime then actual laptops with just worse performance.

[@Nny_V]

nearest microcenter is apparently 280 miles away from me clear in another state. they just don't exist here.

[@Chrish1981]

I miss the linoooode sponsor lol great vid!

[@NoBodY202four]

I found Microcenter in Dallas, I wish they would open a store in Phoenix. We need it!!!

[@GavinMcCloy]

Subscribed buddy, thanks for taking the time to do this, I really just wish Microsoft would get things right - ARM64 CPU's are totally capable of running most stuff, I guess they've got some deal going on with intel? who knows.

[@togoxo]

the snapdragon x elite/plus laptops all have system wide fidelity fx kinda thing turned on by default. also this laptop has dynamic resfresh rate which is something games do not like. also the power profiles in settings do change the performance a lot so make sure to select best performance.

[@Tessa_Wolf_]

I have a feeling if windows makes a proper game ui mode, window for arm would be great for handheld gaming.

[@IM1deadMONEY]

"Luckily my fortune changed with Cyberpunk. Wow! That's *really* terrible!" 😂😂😂

[@christiandickerson2308]

I have a Lenovo x13s with a snapdragon ARM and let’s just say curiosity killed the cat. Luckily it still turns on.

[@8bitHuman]

5:58 for runing on an arm processor, this is pretty impressive.

[@sk0441]

Its like checkerboard rendering on cyberpunk with all the artifacting

[@LittleTrader968]

You got me all excited when you mentioned the Powerpoint update, what was the update ?

[@cakeylies8186]

I haven't used the new Copilot Plus version of windows 11 but I believe they have a AI up-sample running in the windows settings by default and that might be what is causing that weird effect in Cyberpunk. Don't take just my word for it as I can't remember were in the settings it is located.

[@lemonlimelukey]

i might buy one of these just because of how nice it is get inside the internal lmao

[@ryoaahy4271]

i think ifixit gave it a great rating due to the insane ease of repair, with how simple that case is genuinely an okay laptop (if you ignore the arm processor)

[@watsgoinonhere1]

It's funny. In 2019 I was still using a laptop that ran GTA V, like this computer ran Cyberpunk with FidelityFX... but at 480p (actually it was 450p and it ran at an average of 17fps). I would have killed to have as good performance in GTA as you back then. Nowadays I've got a 3070.

[@jonnywishbone4805]

05:43 I was like ‘oh those graphics look really good’ - dude says it sucks…

[@jakeconnelly2441]

Mechanically, there's some really cool design choices I hope to see them keep going forward. Performance, though, is about what I expected.

[@Chris_K_907]

your videos are always awesome, thank you. always makes my day to get to see a new video

[@tommythetoe]

What were your windows power settings. That can make a big difference I heard.

[@reinekewf7987]

translation layers not always slow or bad. steam uses with proton a type of the wine windows translation layer. wine for example does convert some commands but mostly it acts like the windows kernal and filesystem. with mac this is a similar situation, also there are ton of android translation layer out there to. who uses mostly arm commands which needs to translate. and non of them are bad. the only thing thats often make problems are cpu specific commands, like older games and software uses but no longer pressed in our modern cpus because it is no longer necessary. gpu are also a thing. we have 3 types of gpu commands sets(openGL, Vulkan, DicrecX) openGL is farly basic and you need to do everthing by your self of you using it for a game, Vulkan and DirectX are similar but Vulkan is more strict but untethered from the kernal and could use also everypart of the GPU like DirectX, DirectX is bound to the kernal so therefore it is mostly used on windows machines. also DirectX is a big mess of additional software and subversion and microcodes. Raytracing and such things are also usable with openGL and Vulkan but drivers are the issue. no one is willing do bring those features easy usable like DirectX to those command and if sone one is doing it unofficial they get sued. I do game development i writing game engines and i hate the mess that DirectX brings. we have dx12 yes but every feature is managed and called with the driver and only with the driver. vulkan and openGL on the other hand all of your commands go directlly to the GPU without intervention from the driver. the problem here is i cant interact with the raytracing cores or the tensor cores build in the GPU so i am foreced to call the driver with DirectX commands. also otherproblem are Linux drivers. amd and intel are cool there are no problems besides raytracing is at the moment only callable in image render mode and not in realtime render mode. NVIDIA sucks with drivers, drivers poorly maintained and mostly broken and outdated. the actual 4000 drivers are mostly 1600 drivers with broken commands who leads in the empty space or returns garbage. raytracing and tensors are uncallable at the moment. now to the driver gui of NVIDIA why is this thing from 2006 and has no features of the actual cards in it? and why gets this outdated garbage shipped with the actual drivers on linux? i dont get it. in the end if you run linux use intel or amd gpus they work but if you use Windows yea go with NVIDIA it is at the moment the best performance even NVIDIA sucks with that their features are only callable over the driver additional software.

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

it's funny how the second i get to the ai references in the marketing of a product, my faith in all the preceding claims falls of a cliff.

[@Dracossaint]

Their is a microcenter coming to miami.... Welp it might finally be time for that 12 hour drive. Georgia has 2 and it's about the same drive either way.

[@bulutcagdas1071]

Huh, in the Cyberpunk footage I think what's going on is that for some reason the TAA isn't working properly. So all of the effects that depend on it to look properly okay are just looking weird and fuzzy.

[@CatsandHotdogs]

The good news is that from the bottom results it has now, it can only be better in the future. So don’t buy it now to play and wait until it gets better. As some other youtubers said, the clients that buys it now are in a beta test.

[@christopherwood12]

Damn I love that dell Alienware pc in the background

[@SubstituteRealitiesChannel]

The weird "VHS" thing might have something to do with the native windows upscale thingy?

[@theiaproject3467]

The performance problem in games is most likely because the games are coded for the x86 platform. I believe it will get better over time.

[@mikeelek9713]

That trackpad seems extra large. I wonder what the reason for that is.

[@xrafter]

Usb-c need to communicate to other device to know which one is the host and device, I believe that's why your external ssd didn't work. The functionality is either not there yet or not even implemented on hardware, or that usbc is only used for charging.

[@burnitdwn]

Im still bitter about laptops not having easily removable batteries, socketed CPUs, and tons of different I/O ports like 90s and early 00s laptops had. I do like the magnets and only needing 4 screws to access the internals, but, overall this just seems like an overpriced appliance, kinda like an apple product.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

Windows "arm-ageddon" I laughed too hard at that.

[@TatsuZZmage]

Did you try touching the screen in cyberpunk to see if it got better fps as well?

[@waltervalente262]

This video was a condensed version of experience with using surface devices

[@FintanMoloney]

I've watched a few reviews now of these Windows ARM laptops and like here the overall performance for gaming is pretty bad. I'm wondering how they got the impressive numbers in gaming FPS wise when they did the media reveal some time back.

[@ExXxC4L1BUR]

That magnetic back needs to be standardized!

[@Frjttr]

Wild, a Macbook with two translation layers can run Cyberpunk better lol

[@radger6392]

Hey dawid, another weird suggestion but what will be the performance difference in gaming between windows 11, linux running wine or android running windows emulator (any of these two) on this device. Might wanna try it out

[@SilverKnight16]

Just commenting to say that I love this man's sponsor reads; they're the only ones I actually listen to.

[@serhii_himself_98]

For all you switch enjoyers - that's about what switch 2 is capable of, well maybe 50% since tegra has pretty great gpu components...

[@justbubba4373]

The intermittent frametimes are a problem I've encountered running the microsoft GL compatibility layer. I think it's just because it IS a layer of abstraction, and it has to handle unified memory on top of that abstraction.

[@iciconnectit]

What kinda of external display with an adapter/dongle did you have on Mac Silicon? I’m very curious, I’ve had many adapters/dongles from PCs I had that just worked on the silicon mac without any additional installation. Even connecting a USB-A adapter to hdmi all worked fine, though that did require software installation.

[@CreeperK1LLERmc]

the thing is most of the arm cpus dosnt support most of the game and also most of the arm cpus are made for ai only so there is not much hope gaming on that cpu But you can try the Snapdragon X-Elite

[@MungaiTheOne]

I play some mobile games on my pc using an android emulator and I'd be very curious to see how this laptop handles those.

[@maneesh.handle.is.taken.]

Can you try out an eGPU on this arm based laptop??

[@amaanqureshi1286]

Love it keep it up!

[@safetinspector2]

I am always surprised to see Microcenter sponsoring stuff. I always just think of them as this slightly shabby, cramped and crammed storefront in Madison Heights, Michigan. I guess I never thought of them as a national chain...

[@AppoapsisStudios]

If windows arm is a thing dawid needs to play cyberpunk on a raspberry pi

[@MasterJediSean]

Try disabling the touch screen function maybe?

[@caboose6411]

So micro center puts a store in Miami and Atlanta and I’m stuck in between in Jacksonville. I’m definitely not driving to Miami and Atlanta traffic makes the drive unbearable