Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so Microsoft's recent post on X that Copilot+ PCs are "the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever" is being rebuffed by the platform's context panel and the software vendor's own chatbot. The terse response to Microsoft's November post on Elon Musk's social media mouthpiece begins: "These are not the fastest Windows PCs." …
"Generative AI creates bullshit in a highly efficient way, and is thus loved by marketing teams and executives!"
Yup, some of my work involves writing informative and factually correct marketing materials for high quality technical products - so I love AI bullshit, when it's used by my customers' competitors :)
My customers' customers tend to be middle-aged, critical technical folk with an allergy to marketing hot air. So the more hot air the competition produces, the more they drive sales to my customers.
>"Generative AI creates bullshit in a highly efficient way, and is thus loved by marketing teams and executives!"
Au contraire.
Marketing teams and executives create fountains of bullshit, while doing no discernible work whatsoever.
Thus BS/Watt far, far exceeds AI's efficiency.
They do however consume quite a lot more oxygen than we'd like, that could be better deployed incinerating tyres and personal sanitary products.
No he did'nt
Z80 was made by the US company Zilog, and just happened to fit around Clives need for a single supply voltage CPU as everything else at the time needed multiple supply voltages.
All Clive did was make a price point to sell his products, and make the product cheaply enough to make that price while giving his company some profits.
History lesson over with.
But one thing m$ could explain to me, that a 486 powered computer running win 95 from a HDD took a shorter amount of time to boot up and become usable than a intel I5 8 core CPU with a close coupled SSD running win 10..................
If you think an 8 core i5 is slow to boot, you should try a server with dual amd epyc cpus, 16 ssds in a raid array and 256GB of ram.... I find it hilarious that the original celeron powered eeePC could go from powered off to fully usable in considerably less than a minute, booting from an old, slow SD card, whereas a relatively recent, pretty fast, server grade machine will take a few minutes.
Sadly, the server is just as slow to boot linux as it is to boot windows....
> "Microsoft changed computing history by inventing a new category: the Personal Computer or PC."
WTF? I think most people understand that the "PC" term refers to IBM's original PC line and subsequent compatibles. It doesn't really have anything to do with the OS that is running on it, although some people use the term more loosely these days to differentiate it from Apple machines. In actual fact, a lot of older Apple machines were effectively PC-compatibles.
Thanks, Helcat. I learned something. I looked it up and it seems you're right. . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_9100A
. . . at least about the computer. I'll take your word about the Police Constable part.
Though calling it a computer might be stretching the term a bit, at least in the current sense of the term, since it's really more of a programmable calculator, but that's just a quibble about which I'm not prepared to argue.
Not because it has Copilot, but because it is Windows on Arm. She was also looking at MacBook Air, but this got her a better spec for less money (Apple have since improved their specs).
She uses it for school (and will use it at uni) and gaming*. She loves the fact it's small, fast, has a very, very nice screen and runs for at least two days without having to be charged.
Copilot was not considered when she was looking for a machine, and she does not use it.
* when the games work - a lot seem to suffer memory corruption (looks like the frame buffer is used for game data) and "do not yet support Arm" as a consequence. Wouldn't be surprised if there's some undefined-behaviour in there that's manifesting itself in a bad way on Arm...
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