[jeroenhd]

To be fair to Microsoft, running that AI stuff on a standard GPU sucks down power like crazy. Laptops without NPUs would lose a stupid amount if battery life if they enabled AI features like these.

Nobody is using the AI components on these devices yet, but I've heard plenty of stories from developers with MacBooks about how nice it is to have NPU acceleration for whatever models they're running. I've got Jetbrains' offline AI code suggestions enabled and I imagine widespread availability of NPUs would save a lot of random CPU usage spikes for that kind of workload.

General consumers probably don't get much out of AI (the models if any value are too big to run on these small client machines) but I can't say I'd hate a world where NPUs are cheap and abundant.

[bsmartt]

current laptop here is late 2023 mb pro with m3 max, and some things i really like about it, but i miss the x64 arc. 2 days ago I needed to run a kali linux vm and i plugged in an external ssd where i keep a bunch of my VMs. Theyre useless now though since they aren't aarm64 , theyre x64. I have a lot of stuff related to vagrant and packer that cant even be migrated the products themselves dont support or even just shit the bed on execution. Mixed bag.