Hi,
I’m just looking for verifation, as I figured it would work fine. I’m looking at upgading my laptop and the new operating system is snapdragon (I think, looking at the latest windows surface laptop have an older model and love it.) Is this going to be a problem? Hubs was asking if the programs I use would be compatable on the new OS
The processor is a Snapdragon, which is Qualcomm’s attempt at catching up with the Apple Silicon (they bought a company founded by a group of Ex Apple engineers), not the operating system.
It will run Win ARM 64 operating system that is largely compatible with Win for Intel processors which all previous Win devices ran.
There can potentially be some apps that don’t work on Win ARM, but I’ve not come across any yet and Scrivener definitely does run. I run Win ARM as a virtual machine alongside macOS on a MacBook Pro. The major issue at this point is that many apps, while they will run, have not been optimized for the ARM processor, relying on translation. Over the next year or two all the major ones will.
(If you really wanted to go quality you’d get a Mac - possibly cheaper than a Surface, but we’ll let you off on this one. 
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Just a tip, IMHO, don’t, whatever you do, buy less than 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD. (Same recommendation I make for people buying Macs)
The Win OS and many apps can be memory hogs (and getting worse with new ‘features’) and it’s amazing how soon you can fill up even 500GB.
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Thank you so much. yeah I was trying to talk to hubs about this and he had to explain the chip and OS thingy to me. I’m glad scriv will run if i got the new surface laptop.
as for the mac. I don’t like apple stuff. oldest has a mac and when I’ve had to use her laptop my brain wouldn’t compute. If it wasn’t so weird I’d probably swap.
and I’m looking between the 32gb and 64 with 1 terabite ssd. that I do know I need. I have a 1 terabite already so wont go down. and my current I think is a 32 ram thing. I got the best I could afford a few years ago.
that’s one thing my hubs is always on about is you get the best memory and ram and processor that you can and better than what you might need.
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If all that’s holding you back on the Mac, IBM found that after a short acclimatization period staff were up to 20% more productive on Mac (and they had a lower total cost of ownership).
I jump back and forth between Mac and Win for specific requirements and if this 73yr old and totally worn out brain (I vaguely remember being present in the 60’s) can adapt, anyone can :). I definitely am more productive working on Mac.
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