Samsung, along with other major manufacturers, launched its Copilot+ line of PC laptops powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors, but warned buyers in South Korea that the laptops would not be able to run many common Windows applications. In other countries, the company did not make such statements.

With the term Copilot+ PC, Microsoft has designated machines with accelerators (NPU – Neural Processing Unit) of artificial intelligence algorithms with a performance of 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), which is enough to run artificial intelligence functions at high speed in Windows 11. The first samples of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC run on Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips with AI accelerators at 45 TOPS and Arm architecture-based CPUs.

Most modern computers run on processors with x86 architecture, and machines based on Arm chips do not support legacy software. That’s why Microsoft released the Prism emulator, where both native and emulated programs should run equally fast. However, Samsung does not share Microsoft’s optimism. The company’s Korean division warned potential buyers that the Galaxy Book Edge 4 Copilot+ PC laptops won’t run Adobe Illustrator and Google Drive, as well as many security programs. The same goes for Fortnite, League of Legends, and even Microsoft’s Halo Infinite; not all of these are compatible with Windows 11 for Arm processors. Some Korean financial service providers’ websites also fail to run properly on these computers; Even connecting printers will require special versions of the software.

No similar warnings for other countries were found on Samsung’s website, which may be something to watch out for. In 2005, Microsoft lost an antitrust case in South Korea and was forced to remove some components from the Windows suite, including media players – at least until Windows 10, special editions of the Microsoft operating system were released in the country. Samsung has not yet made a statement about the situation.