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Summary
TLDR自从苹果推出首款M1芯片笔记本电脑以来,Windows笔记本市场一直在努力迎头赶上,尤其是在能效方面。尽管Windows设备在屏幕、性能、价格、游戏能力和可升级组件等方面有所提升,但苹果在能效方面仍具有明显优势。苹果的ARM架构芯片是其高效能效率的主要原因。然而,高通即将推出的基于ARM的Snapdragon X Elite芯片预示着Windows笔记本可能在能效方面与苹果MacBook竞争。尽管软件兼容性和游戏性能仍存在疑问,但强大的硬件性能和合理的定价可能使这些新型Windows笔记本成为市场上的有力竞争者。
Takeaways
- 🚀 自苹果推出首款M1芯片笔记本电脑以来,整个Windows笔记本市场一直在努力追赶能效方面的进步。
- 🌟 尽管Windows设备在屏幕、性能、价格和游戏能力方面有所提升,但在能效方面,苹果仍然拥有明显的领先优势。
- 🔋 能效对于笔记本电脑来说至关重要,它决定了设备的形态、电池续航、散热性能以及风扇噪音等。
- 💡 苹果的MacBook之所以能效出色,是因为它们使用了ARM架构的芯片,而非大多数Windows笔记本使用的x86架构。
- 📱 即将推出的搭载高通基于ARM的Snapdragon X Elite芯片的笔记本电脑预计将能与苹果的MacBook全面竞争。
- 🤔 尽管基于ARM的Windows笔记本并非新鲜事物,但过去的产品因软件支持不足而表现不佳。
- 📈 新的Snapdragon Elite芯片在Geekbench和Cinebench等基准测试中表现出色,吸引了主要笔记本厂商的关注。
- 🔧 尽管目前许多第三方应用程序仍未针对ARM芯片进行原生编译,但新硬件的推出可能会推动开发者跟进。
- 🎮 对于通过ARM芯片模拟运行的游戏,存在一些担忧,尤其是在跨架构模拟游戏时可能出现的问题。
- 💻 定价和配置对于新产品的成功至关重要,如果价格过高,可能会影响产品的市场竞争力。
- 📱 期待Windows基于ARM的笔记本电脑能够带来新的变革,打破过去四年的沉寂,为市场带来新的活力。
Q & A
苹果M1芯片发布后,Windows笔记本市场有哪些变化?
-自从苹果发布了M1芯片后,Windows笔记本市场开始努力追赶苹果在能效方面的表现。Windows设备在屏幕、性能、定价、游戏能力和可升级组件等方面都有所提升。
为什么能效对于笔记本电脑来说如此重要?
-能效对于笔记本电脑非常重要,因为它决定了设备的形态、电池续航、散热性能、风扇噪音等。高能效的设备甚至可以实现无风扇设计。
MacBook的高能效主要得益于什么?
-MacBook的高能效主要得益于其使用的ARM架构芯片,而不是大多数Windows笔记本使用的x86架构。
高通即将推出的新型芯片是什么?
-高通即将推出的新型芯片是ARM基础的Snapdragon X Elite,这款芯片预计将能够让搭载它的Windows笔记本在全方位与苹果的MacBook竞争。
在2019年的Surface Pro X评测中,存在哪些问题?
-2019年的Surface Pro X存在软件支持不足、性能不佳等问题。即使是能够运行的应用程序,也没有表现出足够的吸引力来促使用户购买。
新的Snapdragon Elite芯片有哪些亮点?
-新的Snapdragon Elite芯片在Geekbench和Cinbench等基准测试中表现出色,几乎所有主要的笔记本厂商都对这款芯片的性能表示出了兴趣。
为什么说ARM架构的Windows笔记本在软件方面还有待提升?
-尽管微软的一些第一方应用程序已经能够原生运行在ARM架构上,但大多数第三方应用程序仍然没有为ARM架构编译的版本,这限制了ARM架构Windows笔记本的潜力。
在ARM架构上运行x86应用程序需要什么?
-在ARM架构上运行x86应用程序需要通过仿真或翻译层来实现。虽然现在的仿真技术已经有所改进,但运行仿真应用程序仍会降低能效。
对于新推出的ARM架构Windows笔记本,定价策略有何重要性?
-对于新推出的ARM架构Windows笔记本,定价策略至关重要。即使产品性能出色,如果定价过高,消费者可能会选择其他更具性价比的选项。
ARM架构的Windows笔记本在配置方面有哪些特点?
-ARM架构的Windows笔记本通常不会有可移除的RAM模块和驱动器,用户需要在购买时就确定RAM和存储的配置,这些配置通常是固定的。
作者对即将推出的ARM架构Windows笔记本有何期待?
-作者期待这些新的ARM架构Windows笔记本能够提供优秀的芯片性能、良好的电池续航和强大的仿真支持,同时希望定价合理,以便在市场上取得成功。
Outlines
🚀 苹果M1芯片引领能效竞赛
自从苹果推出首款M1芯片笔记本电脑以来,整个Windows笔记本市场一直在努力追赶能效。尽管Windows设备在屏幕、性能、价格、游戏能力和可升级组件等方面有所优势,但苹果在能效方面仍然遥遥领先。能效对于笔记本电脑来说至关重要,它决定了设备的形态、电池续航、散热性能以及风扇噪音等。MacBook之所以能效出色,是因为它们使用的是基于ARM架构的芯片,而不是大多数Windows笔记本使用的x86架构。然而,很快我们将会看到搭载高通新型ARM架构Snapdragon X Elite芯片的笔记本电脑,这些设备预计将能够全面与苹果的MacBook竞争。尽管过去基于ARM的Windows笔记本并不新鲜,但这次情况有所不同,因为新芯片的性能吸引了主要笔记本厂商的关注。
🌟 软件兼容性与游戏性能的挑战
虽然新芯片的性能在基准测试中表现出色,但软件兼容性仍是一个问题。目前,虽然微软的一些第一方应用已经能够在ARM芯片上原生运行,但大多数第三方应用仍未提供为ARM芯片编译的版本。开发者除非看到实际需求,否则不会投入资源来维护另一种应用版本。尽管新硬件Snapdragon Elite可能会推动用户和开发者采用ARM架构,但对于仍为x86架构的应用,仍需要通过仿真来运行。Windows的仿真性能已经有所改善,支持64位应用,但仿真应用的能效仍会有所降低。此外,对于游戏性能,尽管高通声称现有游戏应该能够在新芯片上运行,但跨架构仿真游戏的问题仍然存在。至于定价和配置,ARM芯片的设备通常不会有可移除的RAM或驱动器,因此用户需要在选择时就确定好RAM和存储配置。产品的定价至关重要,如果价格过高,即使产品性能出色,也难以吸引消费者。
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Keywords
💡能源效率
💡ARM架构
💡高通Snapdragon X Elite
💡软件支持
💡仿真
💡游戏性能
💡定价和配置
💡不可移除的RAM
💡市场空间
💡性能基准测试
💡热量输出
Highlights
自从苹果推出第一款M1笔记本电脑以来,整个Windows笔记本电脑市场一直在努力追赶能效。
Windows设备在屏幕、性能、定价、游戏能力和可升级组件等方面都有所改进。
尽管Windows设备在许多方面都有所改进,但在能效方面,苹果仍然拥有明显的领先优势。
能效对于笔记本电脑来说非常重要,它决定了设备的形态、电池续航、散热输出、风扇噪音等。
MacBook之所以能效出色,是因为它们使用的是基于ARM架构的芯片,而不是大多数Windows笔记本电脑使用的x86架构。
高通即将推出新的基于ARM的Snapdragon X Elite芯片,这些笔记本电脑有望在各方面与苹果的MacBooks竞争。
过去的ARM架构Windows笔记本电脑由于软件支持不佳而表现不佳。
新的Snapdragon Elite芯片在Geekbench和Cinbench等基准测试中表现出色。
Snapdragon Elite芯片有两个版本,23瓦和80瓦TDP,但缺少10到15瓦的低功耗版本。
尽管新芯片性能强大,但在ARM芯片上运行x86应用程序仍需要通过仿真,这会降低能效。
苹果的Rosetta 2翻译层在处理x86应用程序时比Windows的仿真技术更高效。
高通声称新芯片的游戏性能将与现有游戏兼容,但作者对此持保留态度。
ARM芯片通常不允许像MacBook那样更换RAM,存储配置也是固定的。
为了新产品在市场上取得成功,定价至关重要。
作者对基于ARM的Windows笔记本电脑重新产生了兴趣,期待它们在市场上的表现。
Transcripts
ever since Apple came out with that
first M1 laptop the entire Windows
laptop space has been trying to play
catchup on Energy Efficiency like at
this point Windows devices have better
screens they have better performance
they have better pricing they have
better gaming capabilities they have
upgradable components there's so much
stuff that's better when it comes to
Windows devices but when it comes to
Energy Efficiency Apple has the very
clear lead and this is the metric that
Apple leans in on right even when they
first launched the chip that was their
whole thing performance per watt year on
year it's like the thing that they lean
on for their marketing material because
it's really good now the reason why it's
so important is because Energy
Efficiency defines so much stuff when it
comes to a laptop it defines like the
form factor your battery life your heat
output your how loud your fans are maybe
you can even have a fanless system if
it's energy efficient enough and one of
the main reasons why MacBooks have such
good Energy Efficiency is because they
use the arm architecture in their chips
instead of the x86 architecture that the
vast majority of Windows laptops use now
very soon like in a matter of weeks we
are going to be seeing a whole slew of
laptops that contain a new chip from
Qualcomm the arm-based Snapdragon X
Elite and these laptops are supposed to
be able to properly compete against
Apple's MacBooks across the board now
you might be thinking Dave arm-based
Windows laptops aren't anything new how
do we know that this one won't suck like
all the other ones of the past I
wondered the same thing so uh in 2019 I
did my first review of a arm-based
Windows laptop the Surface Pro X and my
review of that device was it was
lukewarm at best you know what I can't
even call lukewarm I said that thing
sucked because they just had bad
software support and even for apps that
did run on it it just didn't have great
performance the chip wasn't special
enough for people to be for people to
buy it and because people weren't
purchasing this thing I don't even think
manufacturers were that interested in
doing follow-ups of that device but this
time it's really different because if
you look at this new chip the Snapdragon
Elite chip almost every major laptop
company is going to be on board for this
launch because the performance of this
chip has caught their eye it seems to be
really good in geekbench and cin bench
now granted these are synthetic
benchmarks running native versions of
those benchmarks so it's like best case
scenario but very impressive numbers
Apple does have their M3 Max but that's
just a completely different class of
Chip and also if you look at some of the
GPU benchmarks it's quite impressive
there is one thing to note here if you
look at those benchmarks there's two
variants that they showed a 23 watt
version and then an 80 watt version an
80 watt TDP is fairly high for a laptop
23 to 30 is probably kind of like your
average thin and light 14inch device I
am a little bit disappointed that they
didn't showcase some kind of like 10 to
15 watt performance metric because if
they had shown that that to me would
have been like there's going to be a
fanless version right CU I think on a
fanless device you kind of need to keep
it below 15 watts TDP I think in general
we're going to be seeing devices that
are much quieter compared to an Intel or
an AMD system right now but still having
awesome performance now the second thing
I want to talk about is software so all
the benchmarks that you saw right there
were done on apps that were built
specifically for arm chips now right now
in 2024 there's a decent amount of like
first-party Microsoft apps that run
natively on arm chips but the vast
majority of thirdparty apps still do not
have versions that are natively compiled
for arm chips it's been like 4 years
since I did my review on the original
Surface Pro X and since that time I
would have imagined there'd be way more
developers that have gone on board with
this whole native arm stuff it's still
fairly limited now it does make sense
like from the perspective of developers
unless there's an actual demand for this
kind of stuff you're not going to put
the resources in time that's required to
maintain another version of your app but
I do think that with this new hardware
Snapdragon Elite it pushes customers
towards it because it's attractive and
consequently developers come with but
for the apps that are still
x86 you still need to run emulation to
be able to run it on these arm chips now
back in 2019
because those chips weren't super
powerful emulation was bad also the
emulator only supported 32-bit apps at
launch so that was also awful but now
it's actually pretty decent it supports
64-bit apps and emulated performance is
pretty close to Native but there is a
noticeable reduction in Energy
Efficiency when you run emulated apps
and that's just the nature of real-time
emulation Apple does handle their
emulation differently like technically
it's not even emulation it's a
translation layer so it actually creates
this unoptimized but native arm code the
first time we launch it so it's not as
big of a performance hit the point I'm
trying to make though is that Apple's
Rosetta 2 is like it's going to be
better than what Windows has in terms of
the emulation SL transation however
because of these chips being as powerful
as they are I think they can just brute
force it I think that you throw in an
x86 app on these new Snapdragon chips I
think it just has the power to just push
it out and be like it just works not as
energy efficient but it'll work now
qualcomm's also talked about gaming
performance on these new Chips I have my
reservations like the idea of emulated
games on these systems the chip is good
it's similar to like an RTX 3050 let's
say in terms of just raw performance
capabilities now qualcomm's telling
developers that existing Games should
just work but there's so much stuff that
goes wrong when you emulate games on
across architectures like I I can't
imagine it coming out smoothly at least
that's what it's been like in the past
so if there's any difference this time
I'd be pleasantly surprised um okay last
thing I want to talk about pricing and
configuration so uh we've seen well
these are these are arm chips and when
it comes to arm chips you don't tend to
not have removable Ram it's not like you
just like swap out Ram modules kind of
like MacBooks but also I think that
there won't be removable drives like I
think that the drives will be baked onto
these systems the same way that MacBooks
are so you're going to be stuck with
deciding and choosing your RAM
configuration and storage configuration
for the life of the product now because
this is Windows I really don't think
they're going to have like 8 gigabyte
RAM options and 256 storage options like
that to me I don't think Windows would
allow that I really don't so I think
they'll be like 16 and 512 at a minimum
but it's all baked on now the other
thing is pricing in order for this
product to matter I really think pricing
is like absolutely critical because if
everything lines up if they do have an
awesome chip with awesome battery life
with great emulation support like if
it's super expensive
none of this video matters this entire
product is dead to me if the pricing is
horrible because it's so competitive at
this point yes nothing can match the
power efficiency of apple and yes these
devices are theoretically the ones to be
able to do it but if the pricing sucks
there's just a million other really good
options that people are going to pick
instead of a super expensive arm-based
Windows laptop I just hope that Qualcomm
recognizes kind of the scenario they
have at hand here it's awesome
opportunity to make some real Headway in
like Market space and just awareness of
this type of product but please don't be
super expensive that would suck um okay
there you have it I really think these
Windows laptops will be I think they'll
be cool I think they'll be the first
time I've been interested in a Windows
like an arm-based Windows laptop in four
years it's been a
while
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