Only 720k Snapdragon X laptops sold in Q3 – less than 0.8% of PCs

For most people, it&#x27;s a random laptop.<p>The amount of people who specifically want an ARM laptop is not too big. People who want ARM based laptop <i>AND</i> Windows is even smaller. Most of the first group already bought Apple silicon, or some random variant of PineBookPro &amp; Co (or that Lenovo with ARM CPU that&#x27;s name escapes me. But these folks can run Windows too).<p>Otherwise the rest of the people amount to this (0.8% is still more than I expected - that&#x27;s quite respectable actually).

If we know anything about Microsoft, they’ll get there. This is their second (recent) try at getting ARM off the ground (first was SQ1 which had a much lower adoption rate). Feedback about them has been mostly positive, but mostly from people who use regular office and web apps.<p>Most major app developers seem to be on-board, and I’ve seen a lot of small developers starting to provide beta versions.

Qualcomm&#x27;s exclusivity for consumer Windows ARM devices ends in 2025. It sounds like there may be several others starting up competition in this area e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;desktops&#x2F;gaming-pcs&#x2F;nvidias-arm-based-pc-chips-for-consumers-to-launch-in-september-2025-commercial-to-follow-in-2026-report" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;desktops&#x2F;gaming-pcs&#x2F;nvidias-arm...</a>

A demand spike for Windows laptops is next fall.<p>That&#x27;s when Windows 10 stops getting free support and laptops that can&#x27;t run Windows 11 will need replacement...yes, Linux is an option for some people but don&#x27;t put your money on 2025 as the year of the Linux Desktop.<p>Right now, there&#x27;s just ordinary laptop demand and ordinary laptop demand has been low for many years.<p>But when demand spikes next year, there will be mature products in the market.

How many % of PCs in the <i>same</i> price range? Would have bought one, but even the cheapest one I could find right now (ASUS Vivobook S5507) is too expensive for me (and it seems like it goes for about the half of the &quot;normal&quot; range).

With Intel and AMD figuring out x86 battery life, Windows based arm is DOA unless ARM chip makers are willing to sell on razor thin margins to out compete on price. Even then, business will be reluctant to switch.

Over-marketed the technology, under-marketed the benefits.

Almost a percent of PC sales with a certain CPU configuration doesn&#x27;t seem that bad at all.

Would be happy to buy a supported Linux variant

For a tech enthusiast, it is hard to get excited about switching from a 2-vendor proprietary ISA (x86) to a 1-vendor proprietary ISA (arm).

I just don’t see why you would go for this when you can buy a m3&#x2F;m4 Mac with a fully functional ecosystem.

I mean, between the lacklustre GPU, compatibility issues, price and the fact that AMD and Intel have made huge strides on battery life I can&#x27;t see the market for this.<p>Also Unix nerds who don&#x27;t like Apple also won&#x27;t buy these because Qualcomm is shit when it comes to driver and kernel support. Expensive too.<p>And realistically, no one needs 24hr battery life. 12 hours is plenty. Heck even 8 hours is enough, talking a full working day.