12 cores, possibly all of them P-cores (they've said that SXE comes in bins up to 12 p-cores), and some early benchmarks are putting SXE cores as ~15% slower than M3? That indicates this is a $900 machine comparable to the entry-tier $2000 Mac Studio (12c/32gb), which is still on M2 and only has 8 p-cores. Its TDP is also pretty comparable to the M2 Max, at 80 watts.<p>This is quite an incredible achievement from Qualcomm. I'm very excited to get one of these and install Linux on it. And, stoked to see if future iterations of the Steam Deck eventually make the jump to ARM.
"uses 20% ocean-bound-plastic"<p>Yep someone is literally standing next to a river with a net catching chip bag wrappers and drink bottles and sending them back to the computer factory.
> New Source code integration in File Explorer allows tracking commit messages and file status directly in File Explorer.<p>And yet they make Home instead of My PC the default when opening Explorer, which then causes reads over the network if you happen to have network shares mapped and the whole thing to take several seconds to load. Microsoft has rather schizophrenic decision-making and zero will to fix things, they just keep building on top of the existing pile of garbage.
“AI infused at every layer“<p>Okay… What does that even mean? And why does the company think we want that?<p>I love me some AI, but right now it’s getting put on everything like Nutella at a hipster eatery.