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AI PCs aren't driving sales — The need to upgrade from Windows 10 will drive 2025 laptop sales (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI is being driven by LLMs hosted on the cloud, so why would anyone in their right mind buy a Laptop with "AI" "inside" it?

Even the most technophobic consumer understands this - you can Google something today with a PC from 2014 and it'll spit out AI slop for you to slurp on. AI chatbots are embedded into every website you can think of -- you already have AI shit in your device, it's just being outsourced to data centers.

AI accelerators should've always been an add-on card like GPUs, or at least embedded into GPUs (like some are) but this whole embedded-into-every-chip-imaginable AI bollocks is a waste of silicon and largely a marketing gimmick to uplift CPU prices.

CPU vendors are struggling to keep justifying new generations and they're getting desperate. For 90% of people (conservative guess) a CPU needs no more raw processing power than something from 2010-2014 and 4-6 cores; The kicker is, that this requirement hasn't been touched for years - the host OS has just artificially bloated itself to push sales.

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

Yeah my gaming pc is from 2014 and runs modern shit fine. Well did, my GPU seems to have packed it in over the weekend. So I'm on the verge of buying a entire new machine. Ten years is pretty good

[–] ziggurat 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maxwell?