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  • AI computer showdown - MacBook Air vs. Microsoft Surface Laptop Copilot+ PC

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    From the article, section Display...

    "However Microsoft doesn't mention brightness, while Apple says it can manage up to 500 nits."

    The new Surface Laptop goes up to 600 nits. 

    source: Microsoft Keynote, Introducing Copilot+ PCs

    https://youtu.be/aZbHd4suAnQ?t=2567
    williamlondon

  • AI computer showdown - MacBook Air vs. Microsoft Surface Laptop Copilot+ PC

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    charlesn said:
    It’s a minefield for anyone buying a PC (so many utter pieces of crap out there) but great to see some decent competition for the MBA. Apple’s shortcoming as always is that stinginess with soldered in GPU’s, hard drives and RAM. It’s always annoyed me that these otherwise brilliant machines from the world’s second richest company are hobbled by their tightarseness.
    Apple's shortcoming? You can't upgrade the CPU, GPU, hard drive or RAM on these new Surface laptops. Exactly like Apple, what you buy is what you got. And exactly as is typical, Apple initially gets slammed by other companies for leading on design decisions like these, only for those same companies to later copy Apple and do the same. 
    You can upgrade the SSD on the new Surface laptops, though Microsoft states this should be done by an authorized technician.
    williamlondon

  • Microsoft's Copilot PC and the M3 Mac killer myth

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    saarek said:
    Apple has certainly blazed a trail here. Both Qualcomm and Microsoft still have a long way to go. 

    Still, I’m impressed by Qualcomm’s effort here. It appears to be a good chip, yes, it’s an also-ran by comparison, but it’s a massive jump up from what came before in the PC space.

    If I was Intel I’d be terrified. Apple showed the way and now there is actually a decent chip out there for your generic PC. The writing is on the wall here for X86 PC dominance.
    You're right about Intel's dominance in Windows / Linux PCs being at risk, but the outlook for these PCs generally must now be fantastic, with Qualcomm, AMD and Intel all trying to be the sector leader. I expect great advancements in the coming years in this space, this competition is sorely needed.
    williamlondonkillroyradarthekat

  • App icon customization, new emoji creation coming to iOS 18

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    danox said:
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    chasm said:
    Forget OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, etc. Apple will have full emoji AI supremacy.
    More importantly, most of Apple's efforts in "AI" seem to be focused on enhancing functions and apps users already rely on, and make them perform better.
    Isn't that what MS and Google are already doing with MS Office + Copilot and Google Workspace + Gemini?

    Microsoft AI where your computing life will be recalled in a rerun available to the highest bidder?..... I  think Apple will do better building  long term products when compared to Microsoft, Google, or Meta.

    "recalled in a rerun available to the highest bidder"... what does this mean? Are you implying Microsoft will sell the Recall data or use it for model training? 
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  • Siri for iOS 18 to gain massive AI upgrade via Apple's Ajax LLM

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    gadgetcanadav2 said:
    With cloud AI deeply integrated into Google and Microsoft apps, I can see enterprise firms looking to Macs for on-device AI. I don’t think enterprise firms would like these cloud AI’s scraping their servers of all their secure documents and data and who knows what happens to that data down the road. The security concerns have to be huge.
    How does "cloud AI" scrape private corporate servers?
    williamlondon