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Software support is the ultimate key to the success of the Surface Pro X and other Arm-based laptops, Forrester's Gillett said.

Adobe declined to share details about which apps besides Fresco will arrive, though. "We're working hard to bring other key parts of Creative Cloud to the Surface Pro X as soon as possible," Belsky said. More than half of today's Surface customers are also Creative Cloud customers, he said, so Adobe decided to bring "much of" the software suite to Arm-based Surface machines, he said.

"Surface is an important platform for Creative Cloud and will become even more important in the future," said Scott Belsky, Adobe's chief product officer for Creative Cloud. But Adobe shared Microsoft's stage to demonstrate its new Fresco drawing app on the Surface Pro X and commit to bringing more of its Creative Cloud software suite along, too. , maker of Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, Illustrator and many other apps used by creative types.

The Surface Pro X and the fact that Microsoft is willing to co-design a special chip for it could help Microsoft lure those developers, though. One of the big sticking points for Arm PCs has been software incompatibility. Accelerating AI software boosts software that uses brainlike processing for tasks like understanding human speech, recognizing who's in a photo or automatically editing video. The SQ1 includes dedicated hardware: the fourth-generation AI Engine also used in the flagship Snapdragon 855 processor, Qualcomm said. That's especially the case when it comes to the critical Windows DirectX drivers, software that apps use to control the graphics hardware, he said. "Qualcomm's GPU can run Windows, but it's weaker than Intel, AMD and Nvidia graphics," he said. "Microsoft wanted a truly mobile experience, from long battery life to rich displays to LTE connectivity and of course to be 'instant on' like a smartphone."īoosting graphics performance is a good idea, said Real World Tech analyst David Kanter. "The GPU and its cores were optimized for Surface Pro X specifically to enhance the performance and user experience for graphics-rich applications," Qualcomm said.