Later this year, the company plans to launch the Surface Duo and Neo, an Android-powered folding smartphone and a new foldable laptop/tablet hybrid running the yet-to-be-released Windows 10X.
On the other side, you’ve got Microsoft’s imminent future. Chromebooks dominate the lower end of the portable computing market, as well as key areas like education where it’s easy and cost-effective to deploy large volumes of Chrome-powered laptops. Thanks to its simplicity, Chrome OS doesn’t need much hardware to perform well. On one side, Google’s Chrome OS is squeezing Microsoft in some markets. The success of the Pro X isn’t about sales numbers or rave reviews - it’s about the future of Windows and the future of Surface. However, as the Surface RT demonstrated years ago, Windows and Windows applications don’t play nice with ARM.įrankly, that’s what makes the Pro X so important. Ultimately, it makes sense for PC manufacturers to want to transition to using ARM, especially in lower-cost, more portable devices. These are areas where ARM processors, typically used in mobile devices like smartphones, potentially offer improvements over x86. Unfortunately, x86 has limits in some areas, such as thermals and power efficiency - things that are increasingly important as we shift into an era of thin, light and always-connected devices.
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