

Anything you download and run will probably just work, and although the Windows Task Manager still highlights 32-bit binaries, it doesn't distinguish between native and emulated ones. MSI for one of Microsoft's various overlapping package-management tools. EXE extension as x86 programs have since 1981, or possibly. In most places, Windows doesn't distinguish between native Arm apps and x86 ones running under emulation. Windows for Arm64 contains a built-in x86 emulator, and in Windows 11, this also supports x86-64 binaries. We always advise getting it out of the way as early as possible. Some of them put the updates off until their machine is critically vulnerable, then Windows forcibly installs them, meaning that the owners complain about Windows updating itself at inconvenient times. Of course, long-term Windows users are used to this and will barely notice.

The expression ad nauseam is appropriate. We returned to it the following day, and there were some new updates. So, once we connected it to Wi-Fi – the only way to get it on a LAN – it needed to download umpteen dozens of updates, followed by a restart, followed by another dozen updates, another restart, and repeat until it's going-home time. The X13s comes with Windows 11, and as such, it looks and works like any other Windows 11 PC. Fortunately, we had the Planet Computers one from our Gemini PDA and it worked flawlessy. So it's not easy to connect a USB key to this machine: you need an external hub for that. It's worth pointing out that, like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 we tried recently, it has no Ethernet port on-board, and worse still, it has no USB type A sockets, either – nor a monitor connector. At its full resolution, the X13S's screen gives a good amount of space, albeit with small text
