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@sinbad Aren't most PCs "AI capable" nowadays?
Mobile CPUs already contain a NPU, and desktop GPUs also have AI features.
Probably most people who have a PC/laptop that's still good enough won't upgrade just for AI, but if you need a new machine anyway, it 1. is getting harder to avoid and 2. most people probably *will* buy one with AI features, just in case that becomes important in the future (like Win12 requiring it)

@Doomed_Daniel @sinbad there's no reason to avoid them anyway, all that's happening is that the new chipsets are being rebranded with an extra ai on the sticker. there's no functional change.

@dotstdy @Doomed_Daniel that will be the case in the future, but it’s not right now. MS has only supported Qualcomms add-on NPU so far & Intel/AMD are waiting for MS to turn it on for them. Which they won’t until they’ve sold this current batch of premium add-on NPU AI PCs (white elephant)

@sinbad @Doomed_Daniel right but the definition used in that article is "ai enabled" which is unrelated to the dumb microsoft thing which literally nobody supports. so everyone's branding their shit as ai enabled right now, and microsoft are still trying to make "copilot+" a thing

@sinbad @Doomed_Daniel of course being totally impenetrable gibberish is basically the core marketing approach of the PC space, so in that way ai and this botched copilot+ bs fits perfectly.

@dotstdy @Doomed_Daniel well exactly. But these add on Qualcomm chips aren’t free and they’re charging a premium for them so I’m very much hoping everyone involved loses money on it, the daft bastards

@Doomed_Daniel @dotstdy maybe carve-off might be a better description, but they’re crazy priced compared to more useful x86 machines never mind similar ARM machines without that