At $900, theSnapdragon Dev Kit for Windowscosts less than Microsoft’s new ARM-basedSurface Pro tabletandSurface Laptopdevices.

It runs on a special “Developer Edition” of theSnapdragon X Eliteprocessor (model number X1E-00-1DE).

The only notable difference is that it delivers dual core boost up to 4.3GHz.

The front side of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev for Windows, which features a USB port and power LED.

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Qualcomm’s development machine is also loaded with 32GB of LPDDR5x RAM and 512GB of NVMe Storage.

This isn’t the first Windows on ARM development kit.

Qualcomm solda similar PCin 2021, and Microsoft pushed its “Project Volterra” development kit last year.

The rear port selection of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows.

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Each of these machines contained what was, at the time, the premiere Snapdragon desktop ARM processor.

Despite this deluge of Windows on ARM development hardware, app compatibility is still a problem.

(Again, we saw this problem during the early days of Apple Silicon.)