1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,840 Unfortunately, while you were clicking on this video, AI achieved super-intelligence and replaced all of us. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,840 This is a simulation you are in a video game. I'm the Master Chief. 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,560 This morning, Microsoft and their partners finally unveiled a hefty lineup of laptops 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:21,520 powered by Qualcomm's heavily-hyped 12-core Snapdragon X Elite and 10-core X Plus chips, 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,960 based on the ARM architecture rather than x86. 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,800 They're meant to usher in a ARM-based revolution for Windows PCs, 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,000 just like Apple's M1 did for Macs. 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,280 And based on early impressions, it kinda looks like they might? 9 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,760 It's been a long time since I felt excited about Windows laptops. 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:47,200 It feels weird, I don't like it. Microsoft's calling these new Snapdragon X-powered laptops 11 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:52,320 co-pilot plus PCs, replacing the AI PCs codename. 12 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,840 But jokes on them because I don't want to use either of those phrases. 13 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:02,400 However, the company said more co-pilot plus PCs will be coming later powered by Intel and AMD chips, 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,880 as long as they achieve a minimum of 40 trillion operations per second or 15 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,600 tops, which their current chips cannot, but more on that later. 16 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,880 The other things that make a co-pilot plus PC are 17 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:20,160 access to the most advanced AI models, to power a suite of new software features, 18 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:25,680 and all-day battery life, although some manufacturers already claimed to last for 19 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,200 multiple days before the other ones were like, okay, okay, Lenovo. 20 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:35,520 No, just, just wait, sorry, we don't usually let them talk. All in all, the battery life numbers I've seen are quite impressive. 21 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:40,080 We're talking 17 to 20 plus hours, depending on the model and the task. 22 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,560 But many of these notebooks reportedly outperform an M3 MacBook Air. 23 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:51,840 Also, I don't know why I forgot to put this in the script, but Microsoft showed the Snapdragon X Elite in the Surface laptop and Surface Pro, 24 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:56,960 beating out the M3 MacBook Air in both single and multi-threaded performance. 25 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:03,600 And why would they lie? The laptop lineup is led by the redesigned Surface Pro and Surface laptop. 26 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:08,240 I didn't say numbers there, because Microsoft wanted these to be like MacBook so bad, 27 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,320 they copied Apple's horrible tradition of hiding the exact model name, 28 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:17,680 unless you dig for it in the setting somewhere, where apparently they're listed as the Surface Pro 11th edition 29 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:24,240 and Surface laptop 7th edition. Not to be confused with the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Pro 6 30 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,720 for business that were launched back in March. Those have Intel processors. 31 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,840 They are bad and dirty, don't think about them. 32 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:36,640 Instead, Microsoft said these new surfaces perform 80 to 90% faster 33 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:41,760 than their non-business predecessors, the Surface Pro 9 and Surface laptop 5. 34 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:45,920 And they've got hardware upgrades, a haptic touchpad and smaller bezels 35 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:49,680 on both the 13.8 and 15-inch versions of the laptop, 36 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,000 and a new flex keyboard that works wild detached from the Surface Pro, 37 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,160 which also sports a 13-inch OLED display for the first time. 38 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:04,640 Both machines start at $1,000, which indicates how much confidence Microsoft has in these new chips. 39 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:12,080 And they're not the only ones. HP is revamping their entire PC lineup, killing its existing branding names 40 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,200 like Spectre, Pavilion, Dragonfly and Envy. 41 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:19,200 New consumer HP notebooks will be called OmniBooks, 42 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,920 which is sure to steal some of the MacBook crowd. It's Omni. It can do it all. 43 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:29,920 I mean, they'll get that, right? Meanwhile, their more business-y notebooks will be called EliteBooks, 44 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:37,360 with, of course, various suffixes. HP announced one of each, powered by a Snapdragon X Elite. 45 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,760 Dell has also gone all in, announcing the first XPS 13, 46 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:46,000 which is somewhat widely viewed as the MacBook of Windows PCs, 47 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,920 to feature a non-Intel processor. There's also an Inspiron 14 and 14 Plus, 48 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,760 featuring the Snapdragon X Plus and two Latitude models. 49 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,680 From Lenovo, we got a Yoga Slim 7X14 Gen 9 50 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,760 and a ThinkPad T14S Gen 6, you know those models. 51 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,360 ASUS announced a VivoBook S15 Acer, 52 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,440 showed off the Swift 14 AI, and Samsung showed off its Galaxy Book 4 Edge, 53 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,680 which you definitely want. Okay, you guys, you want this. 54 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,720 But just in case you don't, we're gonna throw in a free 50-inch TV, 55 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,320 not really matching the confidence of some of those other laptop makers. 56 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,720 Okay, but what about the new co-pilot-powered AI goodies in Windows? 57 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,600 Well, whether this is a goodie or not, depends on how you feel about privacy. 58 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,040 Co-pilot plus PCs will have access to Recall, 59 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:42,720 which captures and locally stores a snapshot of everything you do on your PC 60 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,720 every few seconds, which you can ask co-pilot to retrieve later. 61 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:52,880 Sounds like you have the ability to block Recall from capturing certain things, but no promises. 62 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,720 It's a curious little AI. It might take a little peek anyways, a little scamp. 63 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,320 There's also Super Resolution, which will upscale supported games, 64 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:08,320 and of course, the co-pilot assistant itself, which can edit files in File Explorer and watch your screen, 65 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,520 giving you pointers on how to do apparently almost anything, even crafting certain items in Minecraft. 66 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:19,520 That's thanks to the assistant's new support for OpenAI's natively multimodal GPT-40, 67 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,040 as well as multiple state-of-the-art AI models, 68 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,800 including Microsoft's own small language models. 69 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,920 Microsoft says there are now over 40 such models 70 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:36,080 integrated deeply into Windows 11 on ARM, because remember, Windows on ARM used to suck, 71 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:42,960 but it's now got a new kernel and compiler, as well as a new ARM 2x86 emulator called Prism. 72 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,480 Microsoft really didn't talk about Prism that much, 73 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,880 which doesn't exactly inspire confidence, but who needs it anyway? 74 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:55,680 87% of the total app minutes people spend in apps today 75 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:59,680 have native ARM versions, so whatever. 76 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,960 And it's true, native ARM versions of Adobe Photoshop, 77 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,240 Lightroom, Firefly, and Express will launch with these new notebooks, 78 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,600 with Premiere Pro and Illustrator coming in the summer, 79 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,960 and a handful of AI features and other apps were discussed as well. 80 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,480 But this just leaves me wondering, what about Intel? 81 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:22,000 Their current chips cannot meet the co-pilot plus PC's tops requirements. 82 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,720 Well, Team Blue actually released a teaser this morning for their upcoming Lunar Lake chips, 83 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:30,240 which should hit 45 tops on the NPU alone, 84 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,280 and 60 plus with help from the CPU and GPU, 85 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:38,000 so that right there should stop this ARM revolution dead. You can enjoy ARM day all you want. 86 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,800 Leg day is coming. And we talked about AI PCs for a long time, 87 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,840 so in order to make sure today's editor, Oliver, doesn't murder me, 88 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:48,480 these are going to be real quick bits. Are you ready, okay? 89 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,320 Does that sound good, Oliver? 90 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,400 He's angry. Open AI is working to pause the use of Sky, 91 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,560 the voice they chose to demo GPT-4O's real-time capabilities, 92 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,880 which many viewers compared to Scarlett Johansson's voice in the movie Her, 93 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,400 even though Scar Joe gave more calmly intrigued, 94 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,440 instead of obvious emotional manipulation. 95 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,840 Wow, so cute. I date me. 96 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:21,680 Apple has released version 17.5.1 of both iOS and iPadOS, 97 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,960 which the company says should fix that pesky bug from last week 98 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:31,120 that caused deleted photos, and in some cases, nudes, to reappear in the main photos library. 99 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:37,920 Apple says the cause was database corruption, and not a harmless mischievous prank by Tim Cook. 100 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,880 Oh, where'd those come from? Ha ha, got you. 101 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:45,440 Have you bought your mom an iPhone yet? At its IO 2024 conference, 102 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,600 Google talked to Android developers about its Engage SDK, 103 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:54,880 a feature that offers a software surface from which devs can entice users 104 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,040 to resume interacting with a specific part of their apps, 105 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:04,000 like promoting a particular shopping deal, or a new music recommendation feature. 106 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,280 It can really enhance the way that it's... 107 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:12,640 This is ads. Notifications aren't enough. Android is going to have a separate feed or something 108 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:15,840 where devs can show you ads for their app. 109 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,040 Come back, you didn't check this thing out. 110 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,720 I'm good. And Neuralink has gotten the go-ahead from the FDA 111 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:27,280 to implant a second person with the company's brain-computer interface. 112 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,560 The first recipient, Noland Arbach, was heartbroken 113 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,800 when around 85% of the threads in his implant came loose, 114 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:38,000 causing him to lose some functionality. 115 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,080 Neuralink has since stabilized and optimized the remaining threads, 116 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,840 bringing back much of Arbach's cyberkinetic abilities. 117 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,040 But the incident is sure to make any applicants think twice 118 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,640 about signing up to get a computer sewn into their brain. 119 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:56,160 Let's just hope Neuralink doesn't pull a Tesla, Elon's other company, 120 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,080 which just dropped its year-old support for Steam in the Cybertruck. 121 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,240 The games are too crazy now. We can't do it. Hey, that's not even a fair comparison. 122 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,440 They're completely different companies. Well, you better come back on Wednesday 123 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,560 so you can give me a real piece of your mind. Although, maybe just keep all the pieces of your mind together. 124 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:14,640 I heard that having them come apart isn't fun.