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AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing' (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Of the 1.5 billion PCs in use today, 30 percent are four years old or more. None of these older PCs have NPUs to take advantage of latest AI PC advancements, and many of these devices don't meet the hardware requirements to update to Windows 11 – a pressing need as Windows 10 nears its end of support in October 2025. These factors will prompt users to upgrade, with AI capabilities soon to be a standard expectation in PCs."

Do the laptops shipping with NPU really have the capabilities to leverage latest advancements? From my understanding, they can't even run a local LLM.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My 4 year old laptop with no NPU but with a 1660 ti GPU is managing fine for local AI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if your 1660 Ti offers better performance for many local use cases than even the top end NPU.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do PCs need this AI functionality, if businesses just use it for word processing and scheduling, or people that just want to play games why should it be forced on everyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The manufacturers need something to make people buy new computers because a large number of the PCs sold in the past decade are really still adequate for a lot of business uses, other than security vulnerabilities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Something will have to give

Can it be the AI?