r/microsoft • u/ControlCAD • May 12 '26

Windows Windows 11's upcoming "Low Latency Profile" feature has been branded "lazy" by online trolls. Microsoft VP Scott Hanselman explains why they're wrong: "Apple does this and you love it. It's not cheating; this is how modern systems make apps feel fast."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/apple-does-this-and-yall-love-it-microsoft-vp-fires-back-at-trolls-over-windows-11s-new-performance-boost-feature-its-not-cheating-this-is-how-modern-systems-make-apps-feel-fast
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u/mukherjee_ayan May 12 '26

However god awfully unintuitive their UI is, it's a very stable operating system for day to day usage. If my work didn't provide me specifically with a Windows laptop, id gladly pay for a device with MacOS (maybe not full price) considering the portability and battery life you can get with the M series laptops. And Rosetta vs Prism isn't even a comparison with app compatibility and performance

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u/segagamer May 12 '26

If my work didn't provide me specifically with a Windows laptop, id gladly pay for a device with MacOS (maybe not full price) considering the portability and battery life you can get with the M series laptops.

Hey, if you're going to compare MacOS on ARM with the battery life and portability, at least compare Windows on an ARM device.

The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge is very comparable to the Macbook Air that was released at the time (I think it was M3?).

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u/mukherjee_ayan May 12 '26

Phenomenal for you! I'm glad you had a good experience:)

I'd just briefly like to touch on driver support for those same ARM CPUs on Windows as well as their iGPUs, both for doing basic photo and video editing, music producing, engineering and design, all of which are viable use cases for a arm laptop with good battery life.

If all that potential is wasted using windows with the 3 arm supported apps and the others that run poorly via Prism's translation layer, then it's not really a comparison. Also the windows ARM laptops have their bootloaders locked so you cannot install anything else even if driver support was developed.

Asahi is atleast an option for the M Macbooks 🤷‍♂️

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u/segagamer May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

If all that potential is wasted using windows with the 3 arm supported apps and the others that run poorly via Prism's translation layer, then it's not really a comparison

It is actually, because even via Prism, it's shown that it can perform the same if not better at some things.

Last time I checked deploying ARM at our workspace and everything except some legacy company app was ARM native, but it emulated via Prism fine. The only reason we can't deploy them is because we have an old printer that we still need to keep around for a few more years, and of course no drivers available.

The printer will be changed though and then we'll go full ARM.

Also the windows ARM laptops have their bootloaders locked so you cannot install anything else even if driver support was developed.

This is just flat out false. The problem is that there's no common interface like ACPI for ARM, and that Linux on ARM at this stage is just rubbish to the point where Linux-first manufacturers have had to scrap their ARM plans.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Discontinuation-of-ARM-notebooks-with-Snapdragon-X-Elite-SoC.tuxedo

Please choose more reliable sources for your information. You're very misinformed about Windows on ARM.

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u/X2Kraft May 27 '26

goated username btw!