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As someone who used to have a Windows on Arm device. It was Hell. Basically anything that isn't Lenovo or from Microsoft will mean it'll eventually brick itself unless you steal drivers from other laptops. You also cannot reinstall the operating system because most of these nuggets have no device tree files in the firmware of the machine minus a few lenovo thinkpads. So that means when you try to reinstall windows there is a high likelihood your touchpad and keyboard and USB ports don't work. I literally snapped the motherboard on my poor Samsung Galaxy Book Go in half over it suddenly bricking itself. After a Windows update that I could not recover from.
Anyway if you want a decent windows on arm laptop buy lenovo and replace the storage. They have replacable nvmes usually. Also don't get the 8 gigabytes of ram versions you literally will have programs just refuse or just force close themselves out of existence. You will literally have to debloat windows upto even removing Windows Defender and stopping most background services and disabling sysmain because it's broken. You'd also have to disable certain things in Windows defender like memory protection if you want things to work right.
Also https://armrepo.ver.lt/ Is a god send for finding arm windows software.
Keep in mind though most web browsers as well that aren't Microsoft Edge will have rendering issues on older snapdragon socs.
You know if you really wanna rock the most powerful CPUs out thereonly to end up breaking it and using your 2017 spectre. Even if its like literally 10 times slower because atleast it just works.
I legit have trauma over this.
Having worked with OpenGL ES on Android, it's laughable how awful the drivers are. When GPUs from the same manufacturer have completely different behaviour, it really calls into question if they even care.
You snapped a motherboard in half? That's quite a feature, those things are quite tough and with a lot of places to cut yourself open