How did Microsoft screw this up? - Surface Pro X (SQ2) vs M1 Macbook Air

Linus Tech Tips actually just released a video a couple of hours ago where they compared the Surface Pro X SQ2 with the M1 MacBook Air. It was not pretty. [VIDEO]

Legacy x86-64 app emulation has only just appeared in alpha form and still has massive compatibility issues. I'd still call it something we hope to see in the future, instead of a working proof of concept. [VIDEO]

[VIDEO] windows in a VM outperforms windows PCs at the price point--plus like other commenters mention it comes with a native Unix shell

The comparison to Microsoft's more expensive 2020 Surface Pro X is especially stark. Windows runs at less than half the speed on Microsoft's own flagship ARM hardware. [VIDEO]

The raving in this thread is to me indicative of how far behind Intel has fallen behind ARM in technical terms. Now we just need more, better, faster ARM-based chips. Linux is ready, macOS is ready... but it looks like Windows is not yet ready: [VIDEO]

Samsung's custom cores haven't been competitive with Qualcomm so far, much less Apple. You only have to look at comparisons between the Surface Pro X and the M1 Macbook Air to see how far behind Qualcomm is. [VIDEO]

They introduced x64 64 bit emulation in the Dev channel several months ago, but it didn't work well at all. It also was more performant running in a VM on last year's MacBook Air than running natively on Microsoft's flagship hardware. [VIDEO]

Has Windows gotten any better at running x86-64 Windows software on ARM hardware? The last time I saw this tested, it was more likely to fail than succeed, but it's been a while. [VIDEO]