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Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What you are thinking of is Recall, which is a selling point of Copilot+ PCs. As a correction, recall is opt-in, password protected and encrypted in the latest versions. Hitting the Copilot key will launch Copilot, which is a GPT4 AI assistant with image capabilities. Copilot+ itself just means the pc has

at least 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage and an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) capable of at least 40 TOPS (trillion operations per second) onboard.

Tom's Guide

As well as the copilot key on laptops.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Opt-in is an improvement, but Microsoft does have a history of making nominally opt-in features practically very difficult to avoid.