Buying a new laptop...

[Elizabeth Parsons]

Please bear with me. I feel like this is a stupid question but I don't want to make a $700 blunder. 

I am looking at purchasing a new laptop, and one of the main things I'm looking for is something that will run yWriter. I have been using this app for so long, it's like my emotional support writing app at this point (thanks, Simon!!). I am looking at a Dell Inspiron with Windows 11, refurbished, some bells and whistles.

The thing I'm unsure about is that the processor is a 'Snapdragon X Plus' - and my techie partner has expressed doubts about "everything" running on that kind of CPU. 

Please tell me this is a dumb question and of course yWriter will run on that!!

TIA :)

[Jeremy Bullard]

Likely "yes" to the latter, certainly "no" to the former hehe It's most certainly NOT a dumb question.

If it helps any, I run it on an older model Microsoft Surface tablet. If the tablet with an older chipset can run it, I'm sure you're not gonna have any issue with Snapdragon, though I'd probably get a more definitive word from Simon himself.

[Simon Haynes]

That sounds like an ARM processor.  When I compile yWriter, it gives me the choice of compiling for 'any cpu' (which includes x64, x86 and ARM64) so I'm going to assume yes, but I've never tried it on those systems.

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[Dain Unicorn]

I loved to Apple stuff in 2012, but I still work enough with Windows to know a few things of value.  Having this year upgraded from a 2018 Intel MacBook Pro to a M4 MacBook Pro I can draw parallels on your situation.  

“Snapdragon” means NOT x86 Intel CPU.   There will be some issues running Intel/AMD software.   Might or might not apply to yWriter.  The industry is moving to support ARM processors more, and that is getting better every day, but it’s the difference between buying a ready-to-use gadget and buying a gadget that will work eventually.  

  

I recently purchased a new windows laptop and I got a refurb Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga that seems to be more than adequate for my intel Windows needs, especially for the price.  As I write this Amazon has one for $439.98.    I won’t say this will work out for you, as I don’t know your exact spec needs.   But I bring it up because there are budget friendly options out there if you do not need bleeding edge tech. 

TL,DR: If you are worry about software compatibility then stick with Intel/AMD cpus.   

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[Simon Haynes]

yWriter has extremely modest requirements. A celeron/i3 ultraportable with 8gb ram should be fine.  Just avoid putting 10,000 words in one scene if you're on a very slow PC. You can split scenes up and tell the program to join them together on export.

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[Peter T.]

On Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 4:53:27 AM UTC+2 Simon Haynes wrote:

That sounds like an ARM processor.  When I compile yWriter, it gives me the choice of compiling for 'any cpu' (which includes x64, x86 and ARM64) so I'm going to assume yes, but I've never tried it on those systems.

Simon, depending on your Windows update status and your IDE settings, yWriter might run natively on ARM64. I found a Microsoft article about this on the web: 

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/how-to-run-net-apps-natively-on-arm64-devices/

It would be interesting to know which dotnet version is associated with this, i.e. whether the problem with the abandoned speech output module has an effect here. Or whether there will be problems sooner or later due to the abandonment of Wordpad. This would then affect all platforms, but I suspect that there could be no workarounds for Arm64 in particular.

As for me, I use some legacy applications that I bought a long time ago at a high price, or for which there is no real replacement today, as well as virtualization software that basically doesn't run on Windows for Arm64. That's why a laptop with Snapdragon would probably not be an option for me. But that is admittedly very special.

[Simon Haynes]

It should work, as the compile options look like this even with dotnet 4.8 (which ywriter7 uses)

I use AnyCPU to make it as widely compatible as possible.  If I select one option in the dropdown it won't work on the others. AnyCPU should cover all of them.

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[Peter T.]

By the way, here is a compatibility list for Windows on Arm64:

https://windowsonarm.org/

Wouldn't this be the right place to share information about yWriter?