Computers with ARM processors and Windows, is it interesting to buy the first batch or better wait?

These teams have been long awaited since they were announced months ago. We are talking about laptops equipped inside with an ARM processor and running under the Windows platform And despite the wait, we have not yet seen its wake in stores many markets.

"This range of devices that have come to be called Always Connected (“Always Connected PCs”), already had some problems. It is the case of a performance that has been questioned or the limitations that many did not expect to find.Issues on a service record now added a new notch."

And it is that there are not a few who think that they have arrived or rather, are arriving late to the market. The problem is that these models will arrive sporting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor inside when the top-of-the-range phones are already mounting a higher and more evolved one: the Snapdragon 845. They therefore arrive outdated in terms of components.

The arrival of improvements in the Snapdragon 845 will help to improve the problems in the "Always Connected PCs" but what happens with users who buy a model of the first batch? You will have a product that will be out of date almost from the moment it leaves the store, as it shouldn't take long for manufacturers to start releasing equipment with the most current processor.

Loss of value and benefits

In the case of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor we are faced with a SoC with 8 cores and a speed of almost 3 GHz, which means a 25% more than performance than its predecessor Some improvements that have already been seen in some Benchmarks. A figure that even reaches 50% more performance working with a single core if we compare it again with the Snapdragon 835.

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It has always been said that it is not interesting to buy a product in its first series, that you have to wait for a second batch of devices to check the performance, the failures and benefit from the improvements introduced by the manufacturer after debugging the errors in the first models. And this is what can happen in this case with a type of product that is not cheap at all."

Source | MSPU In Xataka Windows | These are the figures for the first computers with ARM processors: HP ENVY X2 and Asus NovaGo