The state of ARM64 on Windows in 2026

My first Windows ARM64 device was the glorious Windows DevKit 2023. It was a sleek black box with 1TB of SSD storage, 32GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 8cx gen 3 CPU with an NPU too! I think I bought it about the same amount 32GB RAM would cost today, thanks to the price hikes over the last year.My Windows DevKit 2023The situation of ARM64 ecosystem back in 2022 wasn't that good. Many apps were missing native ports, even Docker. Microsoft Edge didn't even support JIT for web scripting. However, the ecosystem has progressed a lot since. Today, I also own a Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 6 with Snapdragon Elite ARM64 CPU. It's so performant that my overclocked and liquid-cooled AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU lags behind:Geekbench 6 results after so much tweakingAs if the performance difference isn't impressive enough in that form factor, the power draw is so little that I can easly get full day battery life out of it. It's a miracle.People say that Intel and AMD numbers on power consumption and performance have…