Microsoft confirms release dates of more native ARM Adobe apps for new Snapdragon X series laptops

Microsoft and other manufacturers have started to ship the new Copilot Plus PCs. This first wave of laptops comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chipsets, which are based on ARM. While they can run Windows apps through the Prism emulator, some have already been ported over to run natively on the latest ARM64 chips.

Of course, there are many other apps that have yet to receive native ARM support. For example, Adobe Illustrator still can't run natively on the new ARM64 chips. The good news is that the Microsoft Windows marketing team vice president, Aaron Woodman, said the native versions of Illustrator and InDesign will land for the Snapdragon X series laptops in July.

Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro will also be getting native ARM support for Windows. But they are planned for "later this year." When these apps land on the Snapdragon X chips, they should bring better performance when compared to the x86 versions that the Copilot Plus PCs are running through the Prism emulator.

In our review of the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED running the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-78-100 (available on Amazon), we found that the currently native ARM versions of Adobe apps run very well. To compare, DaVinci Resolve, which was recompiled to be ARM-compatible, didn't run as smoothly as it does on Intel or AMD systems.