When it comes to Copilot+ PCs, Intel and AMD have fought a good fight. But Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has brought the most impressive gains to general performance and battery life — to the point that it feels like Microsoft is close to finally nailing that transition from x86 to Arm.
But there is still one big gripe we have with these Arm-powered machines. While some of the biggest apps like Chrome and Photoshop have been rebuilt to support Arm, a lot of x86 software is unreliable at best and just doesn’t work at worst.
