what the fuck is a “AI PC”?
They get to put a sticker on that inflates the value by $600, then fill it with spyware.
Not VC, more like hedge funds and institutional investors. But yes, all public companies work primarily for higher share prices, and then everything else. I’ve experienced a public US company paying more than a million USD to save 300k just so they can put out good articles about themselves that they kept promises to shareholders.
Thus, Windows will again be instrumental in driving growth for the minimum memory capacity acceptable in new PCs.
I love that the primary driver towards more powerful hardware is Windows just bloating itself bigger and bigger. It’s a grift in its own way, consumers are subsidizing the requirements for Microsoft’s idiotic data processing. And MSFT is not alone in this, Google doing away with cookies also conveniently shifts away most ad processing from their servers into Chrome (while killing their competition).
Google doing away with cookies also conveniently shifts away most ad processing from their servers into Chrome (while killing their competition).
OOTL, what’s going on here? Distributed processing like Folding@Home, but for serving ads to make Google more money?
They called it Federated Learning of Cohorts at one point. Instead of you sending raw activity data to Google servers and them running their models there, the model runs in Chrome and they only send back the ad targeting groups you belong to. All in the name of privacy of course.
Microsoft is desperate to regain the power they had in the 00s and is scrambling trying to find that killer app. At least this time they’re not just copying apples homework.
They either force it on everyone or bundle it in the enterprise package that businesses already pay for and then raise the price.
It never works, but maybe this time it will. I mean it won’t… But maybe.
At least it should result in less laptops being made with ridiculously small amounts of non upgradable RAM.
Requiring a large amount of compute power for AI is just stupid though. It will probably come in the form of some sort of dedicated AI accelerator that’s not usable for general purpose computing.
And remember that your data and telemetry are sent to Microsoft servers to train Copilot AI. You may also need to subscribe to some advanced AI features
And that’s when I’ll start using Linux as my daily driver.
Honestly installing Ubuntu is almost idiot proof at this point.
I do agree with you, the obstacle is that there are many applications that are not available on Linux or they’re not as powerful as on Windows. As for me is MS. Excel, many of my office clients use VBA in Excel spreadsheet to do calculations.
“Wanna see me fill entire landfills with e-waste due to bullshit minimum requirements?”
“Wanna see me do it again?”
