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Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor::Qualcomm made big claims with its Snapdragon X Elite platform and Oryon CPU, but the company proved it to the press last week with a special benchmarking session where we could witness just how powerf

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was specifically referring to desktop Linux, most people wouldn't be interested in a laptop running android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yet Chromebooks have been a major element for the past 5 years, with more units sold than Apple. I know it's not technically GNU/Linux. But there's still a Linux core underneath required to run Chrome OS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ChromeOS is popular because it's included in cheap laptops and the operating system is essentially idiot proof (at the cost of being able to do practically nothing)