OOPS! Missing some from Thurrott's ongoing series of Review Check-ins from yesterday: Battery Life and First Impressions.

After reading all this stuff so far, any inclination I might have had to spend my own $$$ for a 'try-it-out myself' experience has pretty much evaporated.

The HowToGeek has also weighed in on this platform in a 3/23/18 story entitled Windows on ARM Doesn't Make Any Sense (Yet)
Sigh.
--Ed--

Like a lot of tech, they will have advantages and disadvantages. Trade offs will be made in one area to gain in another. My Raspberry Pi's use ARM processors, they aren't Snapdragons though unfortunately. Even on my quad core version you need a lot of patience when web browsing. It is what it is though, I didn't buy it to be my daily user PC. I bought it for the other things it can do that I can't do on my PC. My wife would likely be fine with one of these Arm always connected devices. As long as Facebook loaded in a reasonable time. That's about all she uses her laptop for. I don't see myself using one though.

Interesting reading thanks Ed, although I only read the link for the HP Envy, probably because I've just got myself an HP Envy, of course not one that has phone capabilities and it doesn't have a removable keyboard although it is a convertible one so I can use it as a tablet and I have an HP Pen with it. :)

Mark Phelps said:

The thing that really disgusted me about the HP PC is that, for nearly $1000, I would personally expect a laptop that "screamed", not one with "sluggish performance"! The latter is what I would expect from a $200 entry-level notebook.

The HP Envy x2, if that's the one your referring to, is a tablet, not a laptop. It looks to me, like your paying for thin, light, and long battery life. That's not always synonymous with performance. I'm not defending it, just my observation. And since its Arm powered and has to use emulation for 32 bit programs, that's going to slow things down. I see "not for power users" mentioned so that about sums it up. Just my 2 cents.

Here's another round-up from TechRadar that echoes the "great battery life, questionable performance" theme that's emerging in the press coverage and reviews on the current generation of SnapDragon Always Connected Win10 PCs. I had a chance to play with the Lenovo, HP and Asus versions at the MVP Summit. For email, casual web surfing, and media consumption, these machines are acceptable but can be slow. I'm thinking now that things will get interesting when -- as other posters have observed on this thread and elsewhere -- newer, faster SnapDragon chips with more cores that are available now, but weren't available when these machines were built show up in the next generation of these devices. They may not be total game-changers, but they make make it more fun to play on these machines. We'll see!
--Ed--

At one time I was wishing Windows on Arm would run on my raspberry Pi. I was actually more hoping 10 Mobile would be ported to run on a Pi. But after reading the above reviews the phrase "be careful what you wish for" comes to mind.

For me personally, the trade off of performance for extra battery life doesn't really factor into it. Not for my use anyway, I'm retired with simple needs. Even when I use my laptop, its almost always plugged in. The only time I ever run it on battery for an extended time is if we have a power failure. My Internet would be off anyway? I don't own a smart phone and couldn't afford 4G or 5G for a tablet, just isn't going to happen with my current financial situation.