goodbye Apple.
Googlebook
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#692Google seems to have made an official post on Reddit describing the feature set in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... [Edit] And, the feature set references the 'AI mouse pointer' from this Deepmind blog.. https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/
Oh my goodness, the use cases are so… badly conceived: > If a friend sends you a picture on your phone and you need to email it from your laptop, the file is just there — no need to email it to yourself. So are there really people who will email a photo to themselves from their phone to… send the photo in an email? Interesting to note that there is no mention of processor or operating system in that post. I’m guessin…
I do that all the time with my iPhone and my windows machine, sadly. Still not a particularly compelling feature, just speaks to how sad our modern ecosystem is.
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#693Is this a laptop designed to be powerful enough to run local models? I suspect not. Is this a laptop with a built-in integration with Google's cloud models? I suspect so. And if so, it's the integration that's special, not "the laptop."
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#694Wow, so they looked at the copilot+Windows11 and thought that would be something they want to emulate...
As much as we want to point fingers at MBAs, but isn't this the exact kind of things they teach as cases to not do?
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#695Gross. This is just more proof that corporations simply don't know how to market AI. Everything is an ad for an ad at this point. The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI. No one is doing that, these people don't exist. No matter how hard corporate America wishes they did. This is why AI doesn't sell. This is why companies like Microsoft and Dell are pulling ba…
> seriously go check out apple.com
First words "Now Supercharged by M5, [LEARN MORE?]"
*M5* AI in the fast lane. MacBook Air delivers blazing‑fast AI performance thanks to the powerful combination of the GPU, Neural Engine, and unified memory in M5. With a Neural Accelerator built into each GPU core, AI tasks run with amazing efficiency. From AI image upscaling to running the latest large language models, you’ll be more productive and creative than ever.
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#696Man, what the hell is that song
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#697Gross. This is just more proof that corporations simply don't know how to market AI. Everything is an ad for an ad at this point. The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI. No one is doing that, these people don't exist. No matter how hard corporate America wishes they did. This is why AI doesn't sell. This is why companies like Microsoft and Dell are pulling ba…
> No one is shopping for clothes using AI Tangental rebuttal, but I shop for food using AI every day. Grab app (Asia's equivalent of Uber Eats/DoorDash) has an option "Translate using AI". It (attempts to) translate dishes and ingredients. The app gives a prominent warning (in corporate speak): "these AI translations can be horrendously bad" - and some translations are indeed way off (often hilariously!) but although…
That's not really "shopping using AI" in any meaningful sense. Or at least it's not in the same spirit as what's being discussed.
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#698I'm curious what this means for ChromiumOS and downstreams like FydeOS. If Google is now pushing this "intelligence‑first" desktop experience, how much of that work is likely to stay in the proprietary ChromeOS/Googlebook layer vs. land in upstream ChromiumOS?
The OS on these Googlebooks will probably be a lot closer to Android 17 than to current ChromiumOS. Google has been consistent in saying that they're phasing out the ChromiumOS code base (while continuing the support the Chromebooks they've already sold) in favor of modifying AOSP to work better on laptops and desktops.
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#699Why even bother announcing an hardware product if you are not even going to mention the specs?
We are supposed to buy this because.. AI?
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#700Maybe you can install Linux on one of these things, and turn it into something useful and not choke-full of spyware.