MehrezVM Posted June 18, 2024 Posted June 18, 2024 The day is finally here. The first group of laptops that meet Microsoft's new Copilot+ PC standard are hitting store shelves today, complete with their Qualcomm Snapdragon X series processors. This is a big day for Windows on Arm and for Qualcomm. There's been a ton of hype over the last few months and no shortage of controversy. Microsoft and Qualcomm claim that these PCs will have longer battery life than Intel and AMD-powered laptops. They also are the first laptops to have built-in NPUs (Neural Processing Units) that surpass 40 TOPS (Total Operations Per Second), making them powerful enough to run a set of new Windows features, including Cocreator (text-to-image generation), Windows Studio Effects (webcam blur), live captions with translation and Recall, an activity tracker which is not in the initial build. Meanwhile, Microsoft has chosen to leave long-time partners Intel and AMD in the dust as they will not be getting these features until later in the year, even after their own AI-enabled chips come out. Today, we're getting our hands on at least one Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC -- we bought a Surface Laptop 15-inch with Snapdragon Elite X (pictured above) -- and we'll be sharing our impressions and early benchmarks here on this live blog. Let's see if these systems live up to even half of the hype Source
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