Do you think it will be possible to run GNU/Linux operating systems on Microsoft’s brand new “Copilot+ PCs”? The latter ones were unveiled just yesterday, and honestly, the sales pitch is quite impressive! A Verge article on them: Link

  • simple@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Isn’t there things like qemu and box64…

    Yeah, but they’re experimental and probably very buggy. I’ve used box64 on my phone, it doesn’t play well with everything.

    Can it do LLM inference as fast as a M2/M3 Macbook?

    It should be better at AI stuff than M series laptops, allegedly. Many manufacturers actually started listing their prices for the new laptops, the new Microsoft ones start at 16GB of RAM at $1000. I know the Lenovo one can reach 64GB of RAM but not sure about the pricing.

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      3 months ago

      Hmmh. I can’t really make an informed statement. I can’t fathom qemu being experimental. That’s like a 20 year old project and used by lots of people. I’m not sure. And I’ve yet to try Box64.

      I looked it up. The Snapdragin X Elite “Supports up to 64GB LPDDR5, with 136 GB/s memory bandwidth” while the Apple M2/M3 have anywhere from 100 GB/s memory bandwith to 150/300 or 400. (800 in the Ultra). And a graphics card has like ~300 to ~1000GB/s)

      (Of course that’s only relevant for running large language models.)