Goddamn Dell of all companies is the only one that seems to get it. I'm shocked.

Welcome to the world outside of your own ass, Dell. The air is fresher out here.

Thank fucking God.

The TPU is not for you, it’s for tech companies to surveil, train, and exfiltrate your data at every level of the stack from hardware to application in a “secure” fashion. The “features” they proscribe feel forced because they are - they exist to make it seem like you’re getting the next new thing, when really the features that you actually want (like an ad-free experience and a local Windows account) have been so enshitified to hell that they functionally no longer exist.

• The hardware manufacturer gets to sell you extra hardware you don’t want.

• The OS vendor gets to run classification on all of your pictures, documents, and software.

• The browser vendor gets to see every site you visit and when, every product you buy, and every porn site you watch.

• Then, it all gets trained into a personal model that is cryptographically tied to your hardware and identity that can be queried at any time by tech companies, data brokers, advertisers, and law enforcement.

What YOU get is to ask a finders-fee-biased chatbot which product to buy, maybe some shitty mental health care, and a sycophantic buddy to patronize your ego. AI is the ultimate surveillance and advertising device.

And so it begins?

Enterprise has spoken

These AI PCs/Notebooks aren't even able to run the really big models. For those you'd need a 5000$ card. And for the smaller models a good graphics card is often enough.

For a real AI PC we would need new technology or graphics cards with more ram (the last one would suprise me with current ram prices)

Almost nobody takes advantage of all the AI features they offer, Dell realized this

Do NPUs/TPUs even work with ComfyUI? That's the only "AI PC" I'm interested in.

Honestly, that's pretty quick to learn that lesson. Huge corporations usually take way longer to figure that sort of thing out. Usually not until it's too late.

WTF even is an "AI PC"? I saw an ad for some AI laptop. To my knowledge, nobody is running LLMs on their personal hardware, so do these computers have like...a web browser?

“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it — but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” admits Kevin Terwilliger, Dell’s head of product, in the PC Gamer interview. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome.”

They're just going to try to market it a little differently

I care about AI PCs in that I actively do not want one. It's not that I'm indifferent.

I'm looking for an android smart watch and I'm annoyed at how many come with interactive AI, which I also do not want.

Whoever is making the decisions at Dell just made a very wise one. I’d expect IBM to be the most pragmatic but maybe I missed the news about them

The last time my wife bought a Dell PC, she became an Apple customer. She wanted to avoid the Apple tax but ended up dealing with bloatware, crashes, a slow PC and their horrible customer service.

Its not that I don't care, its that they are too expensive & the monopolies want to exert control over the market. I considered buying a Ryzen AI Max+ 395. They actually had some okay deals for a bit, but they are still pretty inferior to GPU-accelerated solutions which are completely overpriced. Much of this was intentional, although RAM has recently seen more demand than supply. For a long time though, they were restricting the hardware & VRAM in GPUs though not because of price, but because it would take away from much of the dominance cloud-AI providers had, and also do so at the peril of them no longer being able to read & spy on your every conversation.

That is why IMO the US will lose the AI-race. Not because we don't have smart people, but because capitalism is anti-innovation.

well ig DELL is joining the corporation pack that dislikes
AI or criticize it:
IIRC: its Valve and Dreamworks that do it
and now its DELL with both

We don't care about dell anymore either. They have reduced the quality and standardization of their offerings to the point they are worse than just about any other 'brand'.

I like ai. For real. When I want to go there and use it. I open the browser, type to Gemini and use it. Hate it when it is all over everything, especially where you don't need an AI. Glad they got it