HP Envy x2 pricing: Looks like Windows-on-ARM won’t be cheap

Windows-on-ARM was seemed like a good way to get Windows to users with low processing power needs, presumably for low prices. Using a smartphone chip instead of x86, there was a good place for a category of users that might otherwise have gone with something like a Chromebook. But HP’s reveal of one of the first Windows-on-ARM computer’s pricing seems to have dashed those dreams – at least from this angle.

Users of Windows-on-ARM devices were meant to roll with longer battery life than on more powerful processors. They were meant to get features like embedded LTE, faster resume times, and many other bits and pieces that a standard x86 Windows laptop might not have offered. One of the first Windows-on-ARM devices was the ASUS NovaGo.
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