If linux support ends up being reasonable for these I'll seriously look into one for my next laptop. I'm always so envious of how my friends with apple silicon macs can just never really worry about battery life.
Lenovo claims 28 hours of video playback when running Windows. Bad part is that they don't allow this configuration without an OS, and it's quite expensive.
I don't know much about them beyond knowing this. But this looks promising. Unfortunately, ARM laptops are usually quite locked down unlike x86.
Exactly. And Linux already has a lot of ARM support... The question is, will Qualcomm's instruction-set translation system be available to non-windows users or not. It's possible they have a deal with Microsoft (like the chip will initially be exclusive to Surface devices, and only later be available to other hardware vendors like AMD giving Lenovo first dibs on their big workstations CPU's) and work together to do it, and then it would mean that x86 emulation on Linux would take longer to catch up, but if they make it available, this could be really cool.
Either way, if the hardware exists, you can run Linux on it. You can even run Linux on Apple Silicon thanks to Asahi Linux, it's amazing how fast they are progressing to a quite usable machine with zero help from Apple (I don't have one but one of my buddies is using it on his Mac mini).
Also, I want this chip on a smaller version of the steam deck to basically run a Switch sized system with a decent battery life.
I went to OpenSauce and ARM had a booth showing a ARM-powered gaming PC. It had an Nvidia graphics card in it and was running a Unity demo.
As long as it supports PCI Express and the device manufacturers compile their drivers for ARM (which may require some changes depending on the details of the hardware integration), I don't see any reason why an ARM gaming PC couldn't use existing graphics cards.