i’ve yet to meet anyone that wants ai shoved into everything… this shit peaked with alexa and siri answering trivia questions.

THis asshole writes this article as if consumers just dont realize how great AI is. like people will just come around to it in a few years. When in fact consumers have shown they know exactly how good it isn't because they avoid it like the plague, even non tech people avoid it at this point.

I don’t think it’s that consumers don’t want to buy new PCs. It’s not worth to buy a new one, regardless of whatever fad is being pushed at the moment. Chip fabrication / miniaturisation has plateaued which is incompatible with infinite growth that modern capitalism was built on.

Even my half-senile parents have, over the years, learnt that Microsoft disapoints over and over. Noone I speak to is excited for anything Windows or Microsoft.

Are AI PCs the ones with insufficient RAM because the AI companies bought all the future production?

Stop using pointless slop no one gives a shit about as a selling point?

“AI” is not a use case for a computer. Plain and simple. A real use case would be for instance to edit videos or code or create spreadsheets, and what the everloving shit does adding ✨Agentic and Conversational AI✨fix with literally any use case?

Sure, researching can be a use case for AI stuff, as well as just talking with it, but there’s no reason to sell an entire fucking class of laptops labeled “AI PCs” when the only thing it has is windows 11 copilot (lobotomised ChatGPT) and an NPU advertised as a “future compatibility” feature…

What is the average person even going to use an NPU for? There's not a whole lot of useful things that can even be run on one.

WTF even is a Microsoft SlopC? Something that has hardware to speed up their AI deleting important files and sending your private data to hackers? I don't think we need that fast-tracked, Windows 11 already does it well enough.

Is amazing Microslop is still around given have shitty their products have.

Always glad to hear some good news :)

Ive seen the AI on my partners iphone. Wont be going near that shit.

I had to correct myself from typing "iphobe" three times, and im wondering which the mistake was.

I think it's just bad marketing. Microsoft, as they often are, just messed up their marketing strategy with mixing controversial and creepy stuff like Recall and actually useful things like local TTS and STT, translation, image recognition and manipulation stuff. All these ML functions offloaded to an NPU are good additions to an OS. Computers with NPU don't have to be Copilot+ branded to be useful.

Yes yeeeea, die ..trash!

I couldn't understand Microsoft's motivation here at all, until this reminder (from the linked article):

This development doesn't bode well for Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, who saw the company miss the platform shift to mobile devices and tablets and desperately wants to avoid chalking up another failure in yet another momentous platform shift.

it makes so much sense to me now

emphasis on "desperately" for sure

Is it time to invest in Quantum grifts yet or is it still too early for the next train?

I just bought a laptop; my CPU options were an AMD AI 300, and a non-AI 7040. I chose þe non-AI version and saved $200.

I really hope AMD gets it's head out of þe AI trough and keeps designing normal CPUs. Non-AI was an option today, but I worry about next year.