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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite family just moved from promise to provable potential — in early hands‑on tests the Adreno X2 GPU inside X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme engineering laptops delivered playable AAA frame rates on Windows 11 while the platform’s beefed‑up Oryon CPU cores and huge...

Qualcomm’s long‑promised GPU management app for Snapdragon X‑class Windows on Arm PCs has arrived, and it comes at a critical moment: the company’s new Snapdragon Control Panel (branded in early betas as Adreno Control Panel) gives owners of Snapdragon X‑series laptops per‑game tuning, in‑app...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview quietly lays the groundwork for a new class of on‑device automation: an Agent Workspace and an experimental toggle that prepares Windows 11 to let AI agents act on your behalf inside a contained session — a move that shifts the OS from suggestion to action...

This year’s hands‑on experience with three Snapdragon‑powered Windows laptops delivers a simple, uncomfortable verdict: for mainstream productivity the new Qualcomm X‑series machines are compelling — but three structural compatibility problems remain that can break real‑world workflows for power...

Microsoft’s move to build a native, low‑latency USB Audio Class 2 driver that exposes an ASIO interface for Windows on Arm marks one of the most consequential platform-level changes for music production on Windows in years — it promises plug‑and‑play ASIO on Arm64 systems while changing how...

Microsoft has confirmed work on a brand-new, in-box low-latency USB Audio Class 2 driver for Windows on Arm that exposes a native ASIO interface and is being developed in partnership with Qualcomm and Yamaha — a move that aims to remove a long-standing friction point for musicians and audio...

Running Windows 11 on an Apple Silicon Mac is no longer a niche hack — it’s a mainstream, supported workflow for many users thanks to mature virtualization tools like Parallels Desktop, which now ships with explicit support for Apple’s latest macOS releases and Windows 11 ARM builds. This...

Ever since the first Surface hit the market, 2‑in‑1 laptops have occupied a complicated place in the laptop ecosystem: adored by enthusiasts for their versatility, criticized by professionals for compromises that never quite go away. The recent XDA piece arguing that 2‑in‑1s will always be...

Microsoft has quietly flipped a switch in Canary: Windows 11 is now carrying a new version number — 26H1 — but it isn’t the typical consumer-facing feature update; it’s a platform-only release built to enable the next wave of Arm-based PC silicon from Qualcomm and NVIDIA without disrupting the...

Microsoft appears to be preparing a narrowly scoped Windows 11 platform release—commonly discussed as version 26H1—that is built on a new internal platform codename Bromine and specifically targeted to enable the next wave of Arm-based Copilot+ hardware, most prominently Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2...

Microsoft appears to be preparing a narrowly scoped Windows 11 platform release — internally codenamed Bromine and widely discussed as 26H1 — that will ship early in 2026 primarily to enable Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon X2-powered Copilot+ laptops. This is not a conventional, broad...

Fortnite is now launching on Windows on Arm machines — not through a cloud stream or quirky workaround, but as a playable native client after Epic updated its Easy Anti‑Cheat/Epic Online Services tooling and Microsoft's Prism emulator expanded what it can emulate for x64 titles. Background /...

Microsoft appears to be preparing a device‑targeted interim Windows release — widely reported in community channels as “26H1” — that would arrive early in 2026 on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2‑powered Copilot+ laptops, delivering tuned drivers, Hexagon NPU runtimes and other platform changes...

Best Buy has quietly dropped the price on select Surface Pro models—most notably a Snapdragon X Plus–powered Surface Pro variant—bringing an attention‑grabbing early Black Friday price down to roughly $699.99 and re‑igniting frantic comparison shopping across outlets and forums. This isn’t just...

Microsoft’s update cadence for Windows 11 may be quietly shifting again: a recently surfaced Known Issue Rollback (KIR) connected to the October 2025 Windows 10 cumulative update has sparked the first apparent, semi‑official reference to a device‑targeted Windows 11 release labeled “version...

When mainstream Windows laptops started shipping with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X family, reviewers praised their battery life, cool running and on‑device AI acceleration — but real‑world, hands‑on testing has exposed three structural compatibility problems that buyers and IT teams can’t ignore...

Microsoft’s latest Insider Preview pushes Windows 11’s gaming story in two complementary directions: richer controller-first interaction for handheld and couch play, and a substantive widening of x64 emulation on Arm devices that could finally let a meaningful number of blockbuster games and...

Microsoft’s latest Insider release for Windows 11 brings a meaningful upgrade to Arm-based PCs: Prism, the operating system’s x86/x64 emulation layer, now advertises and emulates a broader set of 64-bit x86 CPU features by default for x64 applications, reducing hard compatibility blockers and...

Surface’s ARM-based machines run Windows the way you expect most of the time, but there are important differences to understand about software compatibility, peripheral support, and how Microsoft’s emulation roadmap changes the practical limits of these devices for power users and IT...

Microsoft appears to be preparing an intermediary Windows 11 release — version 26H1 — that will arrive early next year but only on a narrow class of new Arm-based laptops powered by Qualcomm’s freshly announced Snapdragon X2 family, according to reporting that surfaced this week. The report says...