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hey guys we're here at Computex in taipei and we're with Qualcomm today to discuss the future of these always connected pcs now back in December we showed you the 835 pcs which are pretty much these computers that can run all day they have like 20 plus hours of battery life they're crazy and they were running on the snapdragon 835 platform well today they've announced the Snapdragon 800 and this platform is specifically for these always connected pcs sometimes Wi-Fi is really spotty and so you're gonna want to be able to use LTE and so these have a sim embedded so that means that you're just gonna be able to use LTE wherever you are and you're not even gonna have to look for a Wi-Fi hotspot now you're not gonna have to go to like a coffee shop and use their Wi-Fi you can just sit on a bench outside and do whatever you need to do for the day now the 835 was made for smartphones as well and while that's fine the 850 is made specifically for these laptops so that chip is gonna be tuned specifically for carrying around a laptop where you're gonna be wanting to pull data from the internet all day this is kind of a horizontal shift so it's still on that same 10 nanometer process but it actually has a lot of improvements over the 8:35 and a demo they showed us today this chip got about 10 degrees Celsius better thermal performance while running some games in the background now that's really really major especially if you're sitting on your couch or sitting on that bench like I mentioned earlier and you're just kind of like writing things or doing work or even doing a little bit of light video editing you don't want your PC to start burning your legs and third performance is very important here now again that is that same 10 nanometer process but you're actually getting about 30% better battery life now like I said the 835 was really made for phones and this is made specifically for laptops so it's actually pretty surprising that you're getting such better battery life on something with that much bigger of a screen now these things runs Windows and you're probably wondering how do these apps actually work on a Snapdragon chip well they actually have their own arms 64 platform and that emulates Windows processes so you would think that there would be a major performance like issue here but there really isn't welcomed told me that there's really not that big of a performance hit here when you start emulating Windows stuff on arm 64 but it is incredibly easy to compile for arm 60 or DLC was actually the first app that is now natively running on arm 64 but they made it as easy as recompiling to be able to make your app compatible with it so now app developers can just have these Windows apps and just recompile for arm 64 and it instantly works and you're not gonna see a huge performance improvement here but it's still nice to have your app running natively on a system now kokum is still selling 835 laptops and in fact this Asus Nova go is still an 835 laptop they do actually have any 850 devices here at Qualcomm they did have some reference devices but they didn't have any laptops they're actually gonna ship you're probably not going to see those shipping and until about 2019 but until then you can still buy these 835 devices so we've got a full article on everything that the 850 is enabling you can head over there to check it out and make sure you stay tuned to our socials because we're going to be keeping you up to date with everything happening at Computex because of course we are your source for all things Android