![]() Yes, Edge runs natively, although frankly, it couldn't even bother to have Edge Chromium ready for Arm when it was made generally available. Now, let's talk about the most frustrating offender, Microsoft. The alternative would be to use Microsoft's PlayReady, but that would take a fair amount of work, and let's face it Windows on Arm doesn't have the market share for such a project to be worth it. If Vivaldi compiled the browser anyway, streaming services like Netflix wouldn't work. ![]() Vivaldi, like pretty much all Chromium browsers aside from Edge, can't be compiled for Arm until Google offers Widevine support for Arm. I asked Vivaldi about what its roadmap for Windows on Arm looked like, since I definitely didn't want to use Edge in my time with this unit. We're still lacking critical software for this to be a fluid experience, including apps from Adobe, Google, and even Microsoft.But Windows on Arm really isn't there yet The best score I recorded was 508 minutes, or eight hours and 28 minutes. That was an exception though, because the regular results I got were closer to 450 minutes, which is about seven and a half hours. The worst I got was 336 minutes, which would be really good for any Windows laptop. In my battery testing, I just use the device for work as I normally would with the screen at a medium brightness, and I measure the average times it takes for the battery to die. It's going to be a key value proposition of buying the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s. Qualcomm is finally delivering on battery lifeīattery life is phenomenal though, something that's always been a promise of Windows on Arm but hasn't really been delivered. It feels like every time the firm tries to pull ahead, it takes so long to ship that it falls behind. I just wish that Qualcomm tried to stay ahead of Intel a little more. The point is that as usual, the performance is great if you're running native apps. It's not bad, but you can always feel that it's there. It's like if you're watching a movie and the sound is a fraction of a second off from the video. While it's not terrible, you can still just feel it. It just won't work well, and with the big performance gains from the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, I was hoping it would be better. Windows 11 supports 64-bit app emulation, so if an app doesn't work natively on Arm, it will still work. Microsoft's Edge browser works great, and since I almost never use Edge regularly, it's another chance to reacquaint myself with it. ![]() As usual, it's great when you're running native apps. I've always been a pretty big Windows on Arm advocate, but after using this device for a few weeks, I wasn't really feeling it performance-wise.
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