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A little early Christmas present from work. I was due for a machine refresh and a new 15” Surface with a 12core Snapdragon X1E80100 ARM64 CPU, 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD was delivered today. All set up now, and I’m excited to see how the battery holds up through a day in the office when I go back in Jan.

I’ve had a Surface Pro 7 arm64 for ~6 months and love it. There are a few issues like building docker containers for more prevalent amd64 is a PITA and cross-compiling to amd64 in WSL presented some issues because a lot daemons and tools assume cross-compiling to a64 on amd64, but it’s improving.