Stefan Mileschin

Starts "Windows 10 on Snapdragon" era

HP has already announced its Envy X2 Snapdragon 835 based "always connected" notebook and managed to sell a few thousand in a matter of hours.

Still, the machines are not shipping for a week or two since Microsoft has decided to postpone the Redstone 4 update until some point in April. This is the Windows 10 version that Microsoft feels comfortable with for the Snapdragon 835 platform. The insider copy of RS4, called 17115/17120, has already shipped to testers and we can confirm that it works just fine. We tried the RS4 17115 on the X86 based PC.

Some countries - including Taiwan - have already shipped the first batch of the machines a few weeks back. Of course, since it is Taiwan, it was the Asus Nova Go rather than the HP Envy X2. To our knowledge, Asus has shipped Windows 10 on Snapdragon 835 machines first. Lenovo also announced its Miix 630 based on the Snapdragon 835 but it still has to ship.

Going against the will of Intel is not a simple thing, but, again, PC manufacturers realize that they need to find and exploit the new market segment. PCs and notebooks are in constant decline, quarter after quarter. Microsoft wants more people to get addicted to Windows 10 and both PC manufacturers and Microsoft are trying to test the sales of Qualcomm powered, always connected PCs, in the carrier stores.

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