Genuinely curious: do any of the features/use cases they market here sound appealing to people? I am struggling to imagine wanting to use any of them. I can, however, easily imagine the sound my cooling fan will make while the NPU is running 24/7.
I find this useful as a productivity tool. For example, this can give me my standup update summary. It knows what I worked on and can summarize it for me.
AI/LLMs are great at staying organized over huge amounts of data and this is the perfect application.
disclosure:
I am the founder of Perfect Memory AI https://www.perfectmemory.ai/ that does something very similar today.
Until the day it submits something to standup you don't want to and don't tell me you will always carefully filter it and then in best case you get fired. Worst case, you get criminally prosecuted.
Not in the least. I'm looking forward to when this trend dies and all of these worse than useless features hopefully get scrapped. Meanwhile there is now extra hardware being put inside new laptops. I wonder if we'll be able to buy CPU's without NPU's?
My feeling is much of this client AI hardware push is to dodge the power cost. They're looking at spending $100B on a 5GW 'Stargate' datacenter for AI, and paying back that investment will go better without the ongoing (forever?) costs of running the resulting models centrally.
Honestly no. But then computer marketing hasn't sounded appealing for a while IMHO.
Were you excited by the Bezos charts explaining Apple Silicon's blow away performance ? or how the Macbooc Pro M3 is the proest macbook you'ever seen, or how delightful the spaceness or midnightness of the metal finish is ?
The machines themselves might actually be pretty good, and have an impact on our daily lives with better battery, better keyboards, clearer screens etc. But expecting the marketing events to honestly assert the incremental improvements is a tall order.
