Intrigued by 22+ hours of battery life with comparable performance to current Intel / AMD systems? Starting from June this year a bunch of new ARM based laptops have been launched. All major laptop vendors launched devices, with over 33 to choose from at the time of this writing.
While ARM based laptops have been available for years, they mostly have been targeted as cheap entry level ChromeBooks or MacBooks designed for MacOS only. Luckily with this new wave of ARM based laptops there should be something for everybody.
The core question is how well they behave under Linux. Being designed for
Windows-on-ARM there is a risk Linux support is rudimentary at best. Stefan set out to test this and is reporting back here. Does a boot with UEFI work out of the box? Are all hardware features supported? Is the firmware for various drivers available? How is the performance?
And the most important question: how does it stack up against an Intel based laptop from the same timeframe as daily driver for software development?
