Windows Dev Kit 2023 Unboxing and testing

[@mannkeithc]

I've been using my Windows Dev Kit 2023 daily for past 15 months. I think it's an excellent PC and noticed significant improvements in Windows 11 arm, drivers / firmware, x64 emulation, and increasing number of Windows app with arm64 versions. I've just upgraded to Windows 11 24H2 preview release. This includes the new Microsoft Prism x64 emulator and improved graphics driver. It's given me >10% performance uplift on Geekbench 6 and gaming performance. I rerun Unigine Valley using the same settings as you and results were FPS 29.3, Score 1224, Min FPS 15.3 & Max FPS 52.3. I also run Jetstream 2.1 and result was 213.107. I plan to purchase the Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows 2024 which comes with the top tier Snapdragon X Elite processor, 32 GB RAM and 512 GB Fast NVME SSD. Interesting to see how it's performance compares with the Windows Dev Kit 2023. I am expecting around double the performance.

[@Luffyff340]

Thanks for this comment. I updated my ms dev kit 2023 to Win 11 24H2 and it seems that all difficulties in office work have been resolved. My Canon and HP printers have been working great. Performance also increased significantly compared to Win 11 23H2

[@XerShadowTail]

Interesting!

[@neozeed8139]

so a 'widnows mini' in the spirit of the mac mini? seems pretty cool, the killer is the rasp pi is way cheaper even with the insane price hikes

[@TinkeringDaemon]

but the performance of this box is much MUCH much better than the most powerful Pi, and things are only going to improve in the future!

[@jean-michelb7290]

@@nonly1n i like banana and i like less apple

[@inamulbhuyan]

Windows on arm

[@jean-michelb7290]

barebone pc..