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Good luck making that work with Windows. If it does its not going to be profitable as Microsoft will eat your arm.
I would love to see one of these running Linux but I don't see that happening realistically
Already does?
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-tablets/laptop-device-finder/microsoft-surface-pro-9-sq3-5g
Windows on ARM is a thing, and it does x64 and x86 translation.
The chips likely also have hardware to accelerate translation as well, to compete with M1 and M2 chips.
Where's the installation iso?
Here's an archive of all Windows updates and builds. This query is for arm64.
https://www.uup.ee/known.php?q=arm64
That's not a safe place to get isos
From a security perspective, as long as you check the hash against Microsoft's website then it should be okay. Otherwise I'm not sure where to get Windows on ARM ISO's from.
That's my point. Microsoft doesn't seem to want you to outside of the surface
I mean yeah you're not wrong. If only the Surface wasn't so absurdly overpriced for what you get.
Exactly. Thanks to raspberry pis and other ARM SBCs there's been a lot of ARM native support on Linux. Windows really hurt themselves with their initial ARM support.
Windows already works on ARM, but some X86 programs are still a little slow. The Snapdragons previously used weren't as fast as the Apple silicon too, so that didn't help. The original Surface X did have a lot more problems, but Surface 9 on ARM from all reports works well.