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Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Re: Introducing Copilot+ PCs

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Post by hehdhdjehehegwv »

coliveira wrote: post #9
hehdhdjehehegwv wrote: post #6

Wow, I’m continually floored by how bad Intel shit the bed. I remember not too long ago the only computer you would see is a “wintel” with a few esoteric graphic designers in Mac. I guess it’s now “warm”?

And Apple was forced to move the Mac to X64. Intel was completely dominant 15 years ago.

Not only that, it probably saved Apple!

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Post by baybal2 »

jsheard wrote: post #5
thesuitonym wrote: post #3

Again?

Yeah I was going to say. The very first Surfaces in 2012-2013 were ARM-based (using Nvidia Tegra), then they switched to Intel, then they tried ARM again in 2019-2020 (using Qcom Snapdragon) then went back to Intel again. Third times the charm? At the very least they seem to have decent x86 emulation performance this time.

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Post by goosedragons »

theshrike79 wrote: post #2

But is it a normal Windows PC that supports normal Windows software or the weird abomination they had last time that supported a few specific apps and nothing else?

It's normal Windows, just on ARM. Windows on ARM already supports x32 and x64 emulation. Pretty much the only stuff that doesn't work is hardware drivers (to be expected) and games with kernel level anti-cheat (also expected). They've also announced a new 20% faster x64 emulation layer. Recently there's been a big push of apps getting native ARM ports too, Chrome for example.

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Post by delusional »

The AI is the least interesting part of this announcement. Microsoft is giving ARM another try with a special branding that's supposed to guarantee some level of performance and quality. That's possibly huge news.

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Post by soapdog »

Animats wrote: post #16

Will this run locally, or is part of the work outsourced? With "Recall", can law enforcement ask your laptop "Has your user done anything suspicious lately"?

Coverage on Windows Central says it is all local. As for the law enforcement question, it doesn't matter. If they want to get info from your computer, they will and they don't need AI to help.
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