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You can love or hate AI, but it’s killed crappy 8GB versions of pricey PCs and Macs
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2024
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you are correct for now. but one can foresee the day when ai is mandatorily baked into the computing experience. and this is something that isn't too far into the future, either.
the hope is that having limited hardware makes it difficult to have such mandatory "value adding services" forced upon you.
They made it so Windows 11 won't run on hardware without a TPM, and Windows 10 is ending support next year. Easy to imagine the same kind of thing happening with some sort of built-in local AI. If you want to have the ability to make those sorts of decisions, I think open source computing is going to be the only real option going forward.