Longest lasting laptop and MOAR TESTS! | Surface Laptop

Summary

ライブストリームで既に開封した3台のSurface Laptopを紹介します。バッテリーテストではSurface Laptop 7が最長の持続時間を記録しましたが、Surface Laptop 6のIntel Core Ultra 7 165hはバッテリー持続時間が短めでした。新旧のSurface Laptopを比較し、タッチパッド、キーボード、ポート、画面反射率などの違いを詳しく解説。実際の使用感やパフォーマンスについても触れ、特に新しいモデルのバッテリー持続時間の長さが強調されました。最終的には、用途に応じた購入のアドバイスが提供されます。

Takeaways

• 💻 このビデオでは、3台のSurface Laptopを比較しています。
• 🔋 Surface Laptop 7は、X plusチップで装備されており、リアルワールドのバッテリーテストで最も長持ちしました。
• 🖥️ Surface Laptop 6は、Intel Core Ultra 7 165hチップを搭載しており、バッテリーテストではあまり長持ちしませんでしたが、コーディングタスクには適しています。
• 🎶 これらのラップトップには、優れたアルミニウム製のプレミアム感があります。
• 🖱️ 一部のタッチパッドに問題があることが報告されていますが、これは稀な現象であり、通常は問題ありません。
• 🔓 Windows Helloがすべての3台のラップトップで利用可能で、ユーザー認証に便利です。
• 📚 新しい2台のラップトップは、前の世代よりも狭いフレームを特徴としており、タッチスクリーンもより反応が良いと感じます。
• 🔌 新しいモデルは、旧モデルよりもUSB-Cポートが1つ多く、さらにヘッドフォンジャックとUSB-Aポートも備えています。
• 📦 新しいSnapdragonモデルは、Apple MacBook Airに似た見た目の箱でパッケージされています。
• 🖥️ モニターとの互換性テストでは、X Eliteは複数のモニターを認識し、パフォーマンスに影響を与えませんでした。
• 🌞 Surface Laptop 7のスクリーンは、最も明るく、反射率も高く、MacBook Airのスクリーンと比較して明らかに明るく映ります。
• 🚀 X EliteとX+は、スタートアップ速度が非常に速く、特にX Eliteは他のモデルよりも遥かに早く起動しました。
• 🔌 これらのラップトップは、ARMアーキテクチャで実行されるため、x64ソフトウェアの互換性に依存していますが、Microsoftのプリズム技術により、パフォーマンスへの影響は最小限です。
• 🛠️ 開発者にとっては、Visual StudioやPythonなどのツールはARMネイティブで実行可能ですが、Android StudioやSQL Server Management Studioは翻訳層を介して実行されるため、パフォーマンスに影響があります。
• 🎮 グラフィックドライバーのアップデート後、ゲームのパフォーマンスは向上しており、Doom Eternalのようなゲームはスムーズにプレイできます。
• 🔋 Surface Laptop 7のバッテリー寿命は非常に優れており、MacBook Airを上回るバッテリー寿命を持ちます。
• 🛠️ Surface Laptopはアップグレード可能で、M.2スロットを使ってストレージをアップグレードできます。

Q & A

このビデオでは何台のSurfaceラップトップが紹介されていますか？

このビデオでは3台のSurfaceラップトップが紹介されています。

Surface Laptop 7とSurface Laptop 6のどちらがバッテリーテストで長い持ち時間を示しましたか？

Surface Laptop 7のX plusチップ搭載モデルがバッテリーテストで最も長い持ち時間を示しました。

ビデオの主題は何ですか？

ビデオの主題はSurface Laptop 7とSurface Laptop 6の比較、特にバッテリーテスト、外観、タッチパッド、キーボード、および他の機能に関するテストです。

Surface Laptop 6とSurface Laptop 7の外観の違いは何ですか？

Surface Laptop 6とSurface Laptop 7の外観の違いは、新しいモデルがより狭いフレームを持っており、タッチスクリーンがより反応的で、キーボードとタッチパッドも改良されています。

ビデオで紹介されたSurface Laptop 6とSurface Laptop 7のどちらがより多くのポートを備えていますか？

新しいSurface Laptop 7は、旧モデルのSurface Laptop 6よりも1つの追加のUSB-Cポートを備えています。

ビデオで言及されたSnapdragonチップ搭載のSurface Laptopはどのような箱に入っていますか？

Snapdragonチップ搭載のSurface Laptopは、AppleのMacBook Airに似た見た目の箱に入っています。

ビデオで言及されたMacBook Airと比較した場合、Surface Laptopの画面の反射性はどのようなものですか？

ビデオで言及されたMacBook Airは反射性が少なく、Surface Laptopの新しいモデルは反射性が高く、ほぼ鏡のように見えます。

ビデオで紹介されたSurface Laptop 6とSurface Laptop 7のどちらがより速いメモリスピードを持っていますか？

Surface Laptop 7の両モデルが新しいメモリLPDDR5を備えており、より速いメモリスピードを持っています。

ビデオで言及された開発者向けのアプリケーションとして、Visual StudioがARMネイティブで動作することが確認されていますか？

はい、Visual StudioはARMネイティブで動作することが確認されており、開発者にとって重要なアプリケーションです。

ビデオで紹介されたSurface Laptopのアップグレーダビリティはどの程度ですか？

ビデオで紹介されたSurface Laptopは、アップグレーダビリティが高いとされており、特にストレージをアップグレードすることができます。

Outlines

00:00

💻 サーフェスラップトップの比較とテスト

ビデオでは、3台のサーフェスラップトップ（7型、6型、X+チップ搭載型）を比較しています。7型はリアルワールドのバッテリーテストで最も長持ちし、X+チップはその中でも特に優れていると評価されています。6型はIntel Core Ultra 7 165hを搭載しており、バッテリーテストではあまり長持ちしませんでしたが、コーディングタスクには適していると述べています。また、タッチパッドの反応やキーボードの感触、Windows Helloの機能なども触れています。新旧モデルの外観の違いやポートの配置、画面の反射率、バッテリーの充電効率なども比較されています。

05:01

🔋 バッテリーテストと画面明るさの比較

ビデオでは、各モデルのバッテリーテスト結果と画面の明るさについて触れています。X+チップ搭載モデルは最も明るい画面を持ち、535 nitsと測定されています。X Eliteは1.9 nitsの最低明るさで起動し、535 nitsまで明るくなることができ、MacBook Airは456 nitsと比較的暗めの画面を持っています。また、スタートアップ時間のテストを行い、Intelベースのモデルが一番速く、MacBook Airが遅くなっていることがわかります。メモリ速度やメモリ帯域幅についても比較しており、X EliteとX+モデルは新しいLPDDR5メモリを搭載しており、非常に高速であることが示されています。

10:04

🖥️ モニタとの互換性とC++コードのビルドテスト

ビデオでは、サーフェスラップトップとモニタの互換性について触れています。特に、X EliteとX+モデルは複数のモニタを接続してもパフォーマンスの低下は見られません。また、C++コードのビルドテストを行い、IntelベースのモデルとARMベースのモデルのビルド時間を比較しています。ARM64バイナリとx64バイナリの実行時間の違いについても触れており、Prismという翻訳レイヤーがx64バイナリをARM64で実行できることがわかります。

15:05

🤖 ARMアーキテクチャでのソフトウェアの実行とゲームのテスト

ビデオでは、ARMアーキテクチャでのソフトウェアの実行について触れています。Visual Studio、Chrome、VS Code、Notepad++、Docker、Python for Windows、Postman、PowerToysなどのアプリケーションがARMで実行できることが紹介されています。一方で、Android Studio、SQL Server、MySQL Workbench、Git for Windows、VMware、VirtualBoxなどのアプリケーションはまだARM対応していないと述べています。また、グラフィックドライバーのアップデート前後でのBlenderのレンダリングテストやDoom Eternalのゲームプレイテストについても触れています。

20:06

🛠️ ハードウェアのアップグレーダビリティと総括

ビデオでは、新モデルのX EliteとX+マシンのアップグレーダビリティについて触れています。M.2スロットを使ってストレージをアップグレードできることが示されています。また、開発者にとってはVisual StudioなどのツールがARMで高速に動作する一方で、Android Studioなどのツールはまだ対応が不十分であると述べています。最終的には、ウェブ開発やPython開発に適したマシンであることが強調されていますが、特定の開発タスクにはIntelベースのマシンがまだ必要な場合があると総括しています。

Keywords

💡Surface Laptop

Surface Laptopは、Microsoftが製造するノートパソコンシリーズです。ビデオでは、Surface Laptop 7、Surface Laptop 6、Intel Core Ultra 7 165hを比較しています。このシリーズはバッテリー寿命や性能などの観点から評価されています。

💡バッテリーテスト

バッテリーテストとは、デバイスのバッテリー寿命を評価するための試験です。ビデオでは、Surface Laptop 7が最も長持ちすることが確認され、Surface Laptop 6はそれに対してあまり長持ちしないとされています。

💡アルミニウムプレミアム感

アルミニウムプレミアム感は、デバイスの質感や高級感を表現するための言葉です。ビデオでは、Surface Laptopがアルミニウム製であり、その質感が良いと述べられています。

💡タッチパッド

タッチパッドは、ノートパソコンの入力デバイスの一つで、カーソルを操作するために使われます。ビデオでは、Surface Laptopのタッチパッドが時折問題を起こすが、新しいモデルではハプティックフィードバックがあり、改善されていると説明されています。

💡Windows Hello

Windows Helloは、顔認証や指紋認証を使ってWindowsデバイスに素早く安全にログインするための機能です。ビデオでは、Surface LaptopにWindows Helloが搭載されており、その性能についての言及があります。

💡狭いベゼル

狭いベゼルは、ノートパソコンやモニターの画面周囲の枠が狭いことを指します。ビデオでは、新しいSurface Laptopが前世代よりもベゼルが狭く、より洗練されたデザインになっていると述べられています。

💡ハプティックフィードバック

ハプティックフィードバックは、触覚を通じてフィードバックを提供する技術です。ビデオでは、新しいSurface Laptopのタッチパッドにハプティックフィードバックが搭載されており、使用感が向上していると説明されています。

💡MagSafe充電ポート

MagSafe充電ポートは、磁石で簡単に接続・切断できる充電ポートのことです。ビデオでは、Surface Laptopの新しいモデルにこのポートが搭載されていると紹介されています。

💡画面の反射率

画面の反射率は、ディスプレイがどれだけ光を反射するかを示す指標です。ビデオでは、Surface Laptopの新しいモデルが非常に反射しやすく、鏡のようになっていると述べられています。

💡メモリ帯域幅

メモリ帯域幅は、メモリがデータを転送できる速度のことです。ビデオでは、Surface Laptop 6とSurface Laptop 7、MacBook Airのメモリ帯域幅を比較しており、アプリケーションのパフォーマンスに大きな影響を与えると説明されています。

Highlights

拥有三台不同的Surface笔记本电脑，进行了电池测试，发现Surface Laptop 7搭载X plus芯片的电池续航最长。

Surface Laptop 6搭载Intel Core Ultra 7 165h处理器，但在电池测试中表现不佳。

Surface Laptop 7的铝制机身给人一种高级感，且键盘手感良好。

Surface Laptop 7和X+机型的触摸板有触觉反馈，使用体验更佳。

新机型的屏幕边框更窄，视觉效果更佳。

新机型增加了一个USB-C端口，扩展性更强。

Snapdragon版本的Surface Laptop包装模仿了苹果的设计。

Surface Laptop 7在电池充电测试中表现优异，充电效率较高。

新机型的屏幕反射性较强，几乎像镜子一样。

Surface Laptop 6和X Elite机型能够通过USB-C端口连接多个显示器，而不受限制。

Surface Laptop 7的内存速度和带宽显著高于Surface Laptop 6。

在编译VS Code时，Surface Laptop 7的编译速度比MacBook Air快。

Surface Laptop 7的ARM架构在运行原生ARM应用时表现优异，但在运行x64应用时，性能有所下降。

Surface Laptop 7的多核操作性能在编译大型C++项目时表现突出。

Surface Laptop 7的ARM架构在运行某些未优化的软件时，性能不如预期。

Surface Laptop 7的电池续航能力在实际使用中表现出色，甚至超过了MacBook Air。

Surface Laptop 7的内存插槽可升级，增加了机器的扩展性。

Surface Laptop 7在运行游戏时表现良好，图形驱动更新后性能有所提升。

Surface Laptop 7在进行软件开发任务时，部分应用如Visual Studio表现优异，但其他如Android Studio则表现不佳。

Transcripts

I've got not one not two but three

surface laptops here and if you came to

the live stream the other day then you

know that I already unboxed those those

are empty boxes don't worry they're

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safe these are goodlooking machines and

if you saw my battery test you know that

this is the longest lasting machine that

I've tested in a real world battery test

and it happens to be the surface laptop

7 with the X plus chip not even the X

Elite and I've also tested this one

which is the surface laptop 6 with the

Intel Core Ultra 7 165h now it didn't

last very long in a battery test but

today I'm going to do a bunch of tests

on all three of these and see how they

do I've already spent more than a week

with this one uh just doing some coding

tasks on it casually using it not for

video editing no I wouldn't do that I

got my MacBook Pro for that but I'm

definitely liking the experience so far

it has a very nice aluminum premium feel

and I ually during the live stream I've

had a couple of problems with this

touchpad editor Alex jumping in here I

still once in a while have a problem

with this trackpad and I don't know why

it's totally intermittent and it only

lasts for a few seconds now it must just

be a bad unit because this one has zero

issues the keys on these things are

fantastic I've got Windows hello on all

three of these let's see how long that

takes to uh pop them all open come on

come on no no not you how about you you

how about you no it works all the time

when you have only one machine in front

of you let's be realistic now the two

new machines have pretty narrow bezels

you can see that it's much narrower than

the previous generation which is the

surface laptop 6 putting these together

there isn't much of a difference in the

height of these things they also both

have a touchscreen both touch screens

work quite well I feel like the new one

works a little bit better it's more

responsive the keyboard is different the

older Keys have more of a thud to it and

the newer keys are more clicky which I

kind of like and of course a huge

difference in the trackpad the new

trackpad has haptic feedback which feels

really nice doesn't require that much

force and it works equally well

everywhere on the trackpad whereas the

older one is a diving board trackpad so

it works well down here but it doesn't

work at all up here physically the older

the new one have the max safe like

charging port but the new machines have

an extra USBC port Port so headphones

usba a and two USB C's while the older

one has headphones one usba and one USBC

also the new Snap Dragon ones came in

these fancy boxes remind you of anybody

yes they're trying to basically copy

Apple why are you copying Apple

Microsoft huh well I think that's pretty

obvious Apple's MacBook airs have been a

huge hit so why not imitation is the

sincerest form of flattery now after my

exhaustive battery test on these I

plugged them all in to recharge them and

from being dead they drew slightly

different amounts of power while being

charged here's how much power they each

Drew after being dead and plugged in as

far as screen reflectivity the older

laptop is a little bit less reflective

than the newer ones the newer ones are

just like mirrors almost and because

this is not a sponsored video I I bought

all these machines myself I can include

comparisons to MacBooks sh yes this

video is not sponsored but I want to

acknowledge the members that support

this channel thank you so much members

and if you want to join there's a joint

button right down below back to the show

the MacBook does have some reflectivity

but it's not even close to how

reflective the new laptops from surface

are or even the old one I can see myself

clearly in these new laptops but not so

much in the older two and by older two

both the laptop Surface 6 and the

MacBook a M3 both came out this year too

just earlier this year now I've got a

couple of monitors on this desk let's

see how they work with these laptops I'm

going to plug them in one at a time so

far the ex Elite has recognized that

there's a monitor plugged in and there

it is it's showing up no effect in

scrolling or performance that I'm seeing

and I'm only checking the usability of

these things right now not any kind of

in-depth analysis of Performance Based

on whether the monitor is plugged in or

not just the user feel both monitors are

not plugged in using USBC to display

port and I'm not feeling any degradation

in scrolling or navigating or anything

like that now the X+ ised supposed to

also work the same way unlike Apple that

limits um the number of monitors you can

plug into the M3 or the base models

compared to the M2 Pro or the M3 Pro or

the M3 Max these machines don't seem to

do that and this one doesn't suffer from

any lag either now with laptop 6 I only

have one USBC plug seems to work quite

well what if we use a little Thunderbolt

for dock I'm going to start with a

laptop Surface 6 to see if there's an on

chip limitation or just a physical

limitation okay well looks like it's not

an on chip limitation it's just a

limitation of having one USBC port and

I've got both monitors now both 4K

monitors running from the laptop 6

however this is a thunderbolt for dock

since there are no Thunderbolt ports on

the new X Elite and X+ machines will

docks like these work on them let's plug

it in to find out it's recognizing the

dock yes it does work and I'll link to

this dock down below it's my favorite

little travel dock so far it's worked

with pretty much everything I plugged

into it now it's hard to tell about the

brightness of these things they're very

close but just to make sure I'm going to

check none of the surface laptops allow

me to go all the way down to zero as far

as brightness goes so here's the

excelite results we've got 1.9 as the

lowest brightness and then 535 which

turns out to be the brightest screen out

of all these we got very similar numbers

on the X+ machine here's the Intel

surface laptop six not very bright and

finally yes we get those deep rich

blacks with the MacBook Air but only 456

nits compared to 535 on the surface

laptop 7 next we're going to see how

long it takes for all these machines to

start up using Schwarzenegger 2.0 when I

push that red button over here all these

little fingers are going to go down and

turn on the switch let's do

it yes oh the Intel machine the surface

laptop is already on the desktop surface

laptop 6 then MacBook MacBook is in the

login screen because it doesn't have

face ID yet these two turned on at the

same time but significantly slower than

the MacBook or the surface laptop 6 and

if I sound disappointed um I kind of am

it's okay I have feelings I'm not a

robot like this thing let's start

digging in a little bit more and we're

going to start with memory speed because

that's important and there is a huge

difference between the speeds of laptop

6 and laptop 7 let's take a look CPU Z

reports laptop 6 has a frequency of 3391

MHz and the new systems laptop 7 both

are around 8,400 megatrans fers per

second with the new memory

lpddr5 and Apple's M3 is also at 6,400

megga transfers wait a minute megahertz

megga transfers what the heck is that

why are they different megga transfers

per second is roughly equivalent to

megahertz but it counts both the rising

and falling edges of the cycle that's

the clock cycle so in your mind when

you're converting megahertz to megat

transfers you want to double the score

basically when you double the laptop 6's

frequency you get about 6700 megat

transfers which is actually less than

the laptop 7 significantly Less in fact

the laptop 7s both have really fast

latest Ram faster than the M3s now speed

is not the only thing you should care

about with memory memory bandwidth also

plays a big role especially with a

applications I know you're probably sick

of hearing about AI but it matters

nowadays you want fast speed with lots

of bandwidth the memory bandwidth on

some of the top ofthe line Nvidia cards

is huge and that's what helps it be so

fast at doing machine learning tasks

well the only common way I could find

comparing memory bandwidth on all these

machines is the standard stream

Benchmark so here's the bandwidth on the

new Snapdragon machines as far as

bandwidths go these days it's just okay

and the laptop 6 ddr5 memory bandwidth

is not that far behind although it is

the lowest but the bandwidth on the M3

is quite a bit faster reaching over

96,000 megabytes per second on copy

operation compared to the exit's 60,000

megabytes per second now I'm going to

build VSS code yes the editor I'm going

to build it I'm going to use measure

command on the PCS and the time command

on the Mac to get the timings of this

operation all right these are all

building now and the only one making

noise is the Intel machine pretty

obvious let's let's take a look at the

temperature there we're at 35° on the

Intel machine 34 on the X+ and 35 on the

X Elite funny that the X+ and the X

Elite are the same temperature but

they're not making any noise MacBook Air

just finished that one's at 31° so the

total seconds on the X Elite 89.9 X+

95.7 Intel

101.8 and 63 seconds over here on the M3

MacBook Air let's do a quick battery

check here because the Intel machine

just gave me a warning about low battery

it's at 6% right now I had to plug it in

the X+ machine is at 44% and 46% on the

X Elite machine MacBook Air went down

quite a bit to 26% I'm not counting the

MacBook Air here because I started less

than 100% on that one but now that the

Intel machine is plugged in we'll be

able to see how much of a difference

this build makes

and it doesn't really that's surprising

to me in fact these numbers are so close

101.8 seconds while not plugged in and

101

seconds5 while plugged in now let's get

even more nitty-gritty shall we I've got

some C++ code here and I have a quick

sort that's a single core operation and

I also have a merge sort that's a

multicore operation now the easiest way

to get C++ building on a Windows machine

is to install Visual Studio which I have

done and when you want to build on the

command line using visual studio tools

but you don't want to open up visual

studio Studio you just want to do a C++

compilation you can run something called

a developer command prompt but be

careful here because if you open up the

standard developer command prompt on a

Windows for arm machine it's going to

run all the x64 binaries instead of the

arm binaries in order to run arm

binaries Visual Studio 2022 for arm

gives you a native command prompt and

you can search for it by saying arm 64

and be careful here there's arm

64x64 cross tools command prompt and

there's the native tools command prompt

you want the native one if you want to

build for arm 64 and you want the

regular one if you want to build for x64

or

x86 I know so I built the quick sort

program and it's going to sort 10

million integers it's pretty small but

we're only using one core so it's going

to take a significant time not a long

time but a significant time and if I run

the program that I built using the arm

64x64 cross tools command prompt that

just rolls off the tongue so nicely if

we take a look at the task manager

you'll see that it's an x64 program

running there main.exe is x64 but if I

use the arm native tools command prompt

and I run that one you'll see that that

one is an arm 64 process so which one is

faster on an arm machine well come on

it's the arm one right but how is the

x64 one even running on an arm machine

well Microsoft included something called

prism which is a translation layer that

that's similar to Rosetta 2 on Max and

it'll run your x64 and x86 programs

without too much impact so they say

let's measure how long it takes to run

the executable that's built for x64

5.79 seconds and now we'll measure the

other one the arm one 6.5 seconds it's

slower what the heck I did not expect

that trying to prove a point here and

it's not cooperating something weird is

going on because I expect it to be uh

the the arm one was faster but it's

actually slower prism is doing too good

of a job it's obviously something else

going on here if you know the answer put

a comment down below I'm sure everybody

would appreciate it let's do this bigger

compilation now which is the multicore

sort the merge sort and this one is

doing 1 billion numbers the x64 one

first now we see a difference and for

the x64 one going through prism

translation we got 153 seconds total and

for the native arm one

85.8 that is a big deal the previous x64

to arm translation layer whatever it was

called I think it was still called prism

but it wasn't advertised as such was

terrible this one is much better but

it's still not as good as Microsoft

announced it's almost two times slower

to run this multi-core merge sort now I

also tried to run this here on our Intel

based machine but this one would not

even compile because well it didn't like

the size of of the array so the compiler

caught it before I even got a chance to

run it now I do also have a result for

our MacBook Air and the same exact run

over there took 2 minutes and 58 seconds

huh why is that well the X Elite and X+

machines have 12 cores and this is a

multicore operation so multi-core

operations like this will be faster on

the ex Elites than the 8 core M3

processor well I took away a zero so we

can run this on all the machines now and

I'm going to run the native code for all

these machines and let's see uh what we

get I'm really curious about the

difference between the X Elite and the

X+ here it is actually faster on the ex

Elite 6.9 for the first run 6.5 seconds

for the second run 7.5 and 7.5 pretty

consistently on the X+ we've got

6.69 on the Intel

machine 6.39 for the second run fastest

one so far and the slowest one on the

MacBook Air 15 .1 and 15.0 for the

second run and different compilers and

different flags and optimizations will

create different results like these

however I used the same compiler on all

the PC machines and just because I know

you're going to ask here are the flags

that I used on the Mac and I know the

C++ experts out there are going to yell

at me about this or maybe not yell maybe

just correct me my curiosity was

satisfied about the X Elite being a

little bit faster than the X+ but the

Intel machine was faster than both of

them by a little bit and if you're

curious un plug in the Intel machine

does yield slower results by a tiny bit

I just ran two more with it unplugged

we've got

6.75 and 6.74 compared to 6.39 plugged

in so now that we've seen how prism is

going to address compatibility between

x64 software running on your arm

architecture machines this was for a

really simple demo how will this affect

real software out there because remember

when Apple first launched Apple silicon

they gave developers a long time to get

their software ready they had a dev kit

that they shipped out months in advance

before they even released the first

machines I think the Snapdragon devkits

will be here soon I hope but we already

have real machines what are developers

supposed to use to bring their apps up

to speed that's that's not what we're

talking about in this video we're

talking about actual things in this

video actual things that we already have

and what we have is a bunch of

applications that do run on arm natively

Visual Studio being the big one for

developers Chrome intellig pie charm vs

code notepad++ yes notepad++ one of my

favorite uh editors takes me way back

Nostalgia Docker anything running inside

wsl2 python for Windows no JS Postman

and of course power toys these are just

some of the things I use there's enough

stuff out there to get you going there's

some notable big exceptions that don't

work yet natively and when I say don't

work yet natively I mean you probably

should just avoid doing this all

together if your job relies on this

Android Studio SQL Server MySQL

workbench will work through translation

it's it's okay and same thing with SQL

Server management Studio they both work

there's going to be a little bit of a

lag but they'll get you through notion

works but it is the x64 version and the

translation is working pretty well for

that one git for Windows surprisingly

doesn't have an ARM version yet but how

much do you really do with Git anyway

inside wsl2 git already comes

pre-installed and that one is the arm

version and if you're doing

virtualization outside of Docker or WSL

if you want to run a package like VMware

or virtual box you're out of luck now

how far does the translation layer take

you well it'll do AVX instructions right

now but it won't do avx2 and I found

this out by copying the x64 version of

geekbench the binaries over to the arm

machine and it just exploded gave me an

error saying avx2 is not supported what

is AVX it's Advanced Vector extensions

it's a C++ thing that runs pretty

lowlevel that you can leverage as a

program to optimize your code and make

it run faster basically single

instruction multiple data simd these are

operations that can significantly boost

performance avx2 takes that a little bit

further and adds even more instructions

and those break now there's also

packages like a blender for example

blender is currently an alpha in its ARM

version but there is the x64 version of

blender that you can run on these

machines and it does run the time for

rendering the BMW demo is uh not that

much faster using the native ARM version

than using the translated x64 version so

we're going to get a mixed bag of

results depending on the software

package that you're running after the

graphics driver update I did check

geekbench that's the GPU test and the

score did not go up so then I wondered

is blender using the GPU or what's going

on here and sure enough blender was not

using the GPU and that would explain the

similar render times I got for before

the graphics driver update and after the

driver update what about games I haven't

gained too much in the last many years

but I was curious about how games are

going to respond on these machines

because some reviews out there were

showing that the graphics driver was not

performing very well here and after

updating to the latest Beta Graphics

driver Doom Eternal actually launched

and it played pretty smoothly I was

pretty impressed even though my game

playay was uh pretty embarrassing but

overall the experience was pretty smooth

and I was able to play for an

embarrassing amount of time again I'm

embarrassed I play for 2 hours straight

on battery without power plugged in on

the X+ machine and I had plenty of juice

left over which is pretty amazing now I

do have the 512 GB models here but these

machines are upgradeable you can pop

these feed off apparently oh yeah look

at that the foot just comes right off

there's a screw there and there's an m.2

slot that you can just upgrade that's

not something you can say about the

MacBooks of course so what's so good

about the new X lead and X+ machines

well there are some things that are

better on it some things that run faster

on it like Visual Studio those workflows

but there's other development tasks that

don't run in any usable way like Android

Studio intell J with Java Works quite

well you just need to get the right

version of java the arm version of the

jdk so it's a kind of a mixed bag I'd

say the biggest win for these new

machines is definitely the battery life

especially when this machine can Outlast

the magbook air if you're doing web

development you're golden if you're

doing python development you're good if

you're doing net you're good so for some

of you it's going to be a no-brainer to

get one of these for others it's going

to be a risky move and for the rest of

you the safe bet would be to get an

Intel based machine but you're going to

have to be plugged in most of the time

check out these models and a bunch of

other machines I tested in a battery

test right over here and again thanks

for watching I'll see you all next time

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