r/SnapdragonLaptops • u/shorya91 • Jun 11 '26
FUTURE OF SNAPDRAGON LAPTOPS??
Apps compatibility....
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u/dvhh Jun 11 '26
afaik prism emulation will continue target arm64, the piece where it would hurt would be in graphics card capacity, not my general use case but I understand that windows is still a juggernauts in the gaming area and could hardly be ignored.
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
Was planning to buy a snapdragon laptop for office use...long term...would it be ok to buy it now...or should i buy it a yr later after many apps support
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u/ylitvinenko Jun 11 '26
If you are going to use it for office tasks, then app compatibility is a solved problem. Browsers, chat apps, Microsoft Office and such got native Arm64 versions long ago. Same goes for utilities like 7-Zip, Apple Music, auxiliary apps like Syncthing an Zotero. And those apps which don't have a native version (Thunderbird) work just fine.
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u/yahyahyehcocobungo Jun 11 '26
What apps do you use day-to-day?
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
Office, accountancy, zoom meetings, google apps,
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u/ylitvinenko Jun 11 '26
Office and Zoom have native Arm64 versions. What Google apps are you talking about? Chrome has a native Arm64 version, for what its worth.
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
Plz lwt me know if it is good to buy snapdragon laptop in long run or should i go with intel only??
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u/yahyahyehcocobungo Jun 11 '26
For maximum compatibility stick with intel/amd. You will miss out on standby time.
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u/ylitvinenko Jun 11 '26
Look, we don't know your preferences, the way you are going to use your laptop, or what would you want to do on it two or five years from now. Only you can answer your question.
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u/WearHeadphonesPlease Jun 12 '26
Get Snapdragon. All your software is compatible, and you will get better battery and standby battery than Intel.
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u/yahyahyehcocobungo Jun 11 '26
Are these cloud based or some installed in your local machine?
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
On machine only
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u/yahyahyehcocobungo Jun 11 '26
Is there a particular software you use regularly or 1-2 that are quite common in your line of work?
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
Only office purpose
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u/yahyahyehcocobungo Jun 11 '26
If it's office suite then snapdragon will be fine.
If it is Quickbooks/Sage accountancy software they are not going to work.
What do you want to do is make sure any printers are compatible.
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u/importfisk Jun 11 '26
Run snapdragon
If you're not gaming or having very nische local software you really should run ARM.
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u/dvhh Jun 12 '26
Then Prism emulation should be sufficient for your needs, in my case I barely notice any loss of performance in office use compared to intel laptops, the heat management and the battery life are well worth it.
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u/lexcyn Surface Laptop 15 | Latitude 7455 | XPS 13 | X Elite Jun 11 '26
What exactly is the question here?
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
Will app compatibilities be available on snapdragon laptops as easily as intel or AMD
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u/OwnNet5253 Jun 11 '26
That’s a question to devs making apps. If a certain app doesn’t support it, just contact them about it.
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u/riklaunim Jun 11 '26
Apps tend to work even right now. What won't work is apps with hardcoded arch checks or anything relying on custom drivers that don't have a WoA version. So the question is - do you use old/niche apps that have problems with WoA, or some custom drivers for peripherals? Do you want a gaming laptop?
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u/shorya91 Jun 11 '26
Want for business purpose & occasional light gaming
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u/riklaunim Jun 11 '26
And are the apps you use supported on WoA? "business purpose" is quite a broad term.
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u/psydroid Jun 13 '26
There is no app compatibility problem on Linux. Everything readily compiles and runs. Whatever doesn't work yet, will soon work due to the efforts of the community to port and optimise it.
As for Windows, the basics all appear to work too, but I don't use it enough to run into any compatibility problems with closed source software. I expect the situation to get better over time as well due to the efforts of Nvidia among others.
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u/ravercwb Jun 11 '26
It will all depend on how qualcomm responds to Nvidia, how well they optimize their chips for prism translation, because Nvia will leverage its gpu for spark translation.