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roody15 a day ago

The AI PC marketing campaign as of now is not good. What exactly is an AI PC?

Many consumers are still uneasy with some AI use and just tagging this label onto a laptop doenst look to be increasing mindshare or moving units.

jmclnx 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>What exactly is an AI PC?

I take it to mean it is a Marketing term which really means one or more of these items:

* Locked down PC where you will do what we say, not what you want to do.

* No hardware upgrades, want more memory, diskspace ? Buy a new Laptop.

* You will now need to pay 30 USD per month to use this Laptop. It is 10 USD fee for students.

* No internet connection means some functions will not work.

* We will spy on your usage, but you can press a disable button. Heard in the boardrooms "that disable button really turns on more spyware because if they find it, we really want to watch that person". ie: Recall

onemoresoop a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

AI pc sounds like something so flaky that as a user you relegate all your powers to the overlords and become sumbissive in hoppes of obtaining what they thinkn is what you wantz.

wmf a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a PC that has a decent NPU. By next year every PC will be an AI PC so it won't really matter.

thaumasiotes a day ago | parent | next [-]

> It's a PC that has a decent NPU.

Nondeterministic processing unit?

heromal a day ago | parent [-]

Neural Processing Unit

jazzyjackson 21 hours ago | parent [-]

But all they add to Windows is optical character recognition and webcam backgrounds, so really they're just ultra efficient GPUs, nothing neural about it

I assumed they would do some kind of local LLM that helped me find files, but no, the search function in windows explorer has actually regressed and no longer matches on exact substrings.

wmf 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are a lot more features than that.

jazzyjackson 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those are the only ones I noticed. After googling around there is supposed to be automatic captioning and translation in video calls which does sound useful, plus image generation in Paint

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deafpolygon 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The regression is just there so they can introduce "AI" powered search next year.

pajko 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't forget the keyboard with the AI button.

atoav 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Easy: it is a "smart" PC 4.0

selimthegrim a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Well if the ads I saw during the SEC football games on TV were any indication apparently Intel and Dell think it’s campus food delivery bots.