The new surface X uses an ARM chip and it sounds like they did a lot of work to allow 32 bit apps to run without modification. "Using WOW64, an x86 emulator, ARM chips can run 32-bit apps"
Has anyone tried running powerserver client on Windows 10 ARM?
What about PB itself as a full client? It sounds like if you are running 32bit PB app, then it should run (not sure about database drivers). This is of less interest to me (full PB client) than a powerserver client on these highly mobile windows ARM computers.
i think the arm version would be too under powered to run as a dev machine. Plus i don't think i could get a dbms to run on arm machine? PB dev environment probably would run though? In any case, i think it makes more sense to setup VMs to run dev versions of PB.
Just checked with the "Big Guy" and he says that its not looking too good for you for a Surface under the tree this year. However, he said that you can still sign up for the "nice list" and he'll see what he can do for you ...
https://www.santasvillage.ca/santas-nice-list
Good luck ... Chris