There is more and more Windows laptops using arm64 CPUs. With the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X, which is allegedly even faster and more power-efficient than Apple M2, their number is going to skyrocket in the coming months. Almost every major laptop manufacturer is releasing brand new arm64 models in June.
It is a pity that Inkscape, which uses CPU for SVG rendering and so is particularly sensitive to CPU speed, must go through the x86-arm translation layer. This cuts the performance and battery life in half.
Windows11 Arm64 has been around for years, is completely stable and many applications have had Arm64 versions for a long time (Chrome, Adobe, Visual Studio etc.).
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There is more and more Windows laptops using arm64 CPUs. With the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X, which is allegedly even faster and more power-efficient than Apple M2, their number is going to skyrocket in the coming months. Almost every major laptop manufacturer is releasing brand new arm64 models in June.
It is a pity that Inkscape, which uses CPU for SVG rendering and so is particularly sensitive to CPU speed, must go through the x86-arm translation layer. This cuts the performance and battery life in half.
Windows11 Arm64 has been around for years, is completely stable and many applications have had Arm64 versions for a long time (Chrome, Adobe, Visual Studio etc.).