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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:19:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: Recommended hardware for ARM64 port of Cygwin?
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From: Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM Brian Inglis via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On 2025-08-10 14:51, Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM Mark Liam Brown wrote:
> >> Which ARM64 hardware would be recommended to run, and develop, the
> >> ARM64 port of Cygwin?
> >> Which ARM64 do you actually use?
>
> Looks like MS Surface with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors should be available
> discounted on Meta Facebook Marketplace if you care to do such things, or you
> can buy them new from Surface vendors, laptop or tablet, with tiny screens.
>
> There appear to be complaints about MS lack of support for native ARM64
> development tools and drivers, and no desktop support, mobile chips only.
>
>

1. What about HP ARM64 laptops with Snapdragon CPUs, are they useful?
2. Can the Google compute cloud run Windows 11 for ARM? Did anyone try?

Mark
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