WEBVTT 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. 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:09.840 This is a simulation you are in a video game. I'm the Master Chief. 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.560 This morning, Microsoft and their partners finally unveiled a hefty lineup of laptops 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, 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:24.960 based on the ARM architecture rather than x86. 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:28.800 They're meant to usher in a ARM-based revolution for Windows PCs, 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:32.000 just like Apple's M1 did for Macs. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:37.280 And based on early impressions, it kinda looks like they might? 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.760 It's been a long time since I felt excited about Windows laptops. 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 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:52.320 co-pilot plus PCs, replacing the AI PCs codename. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.840 But jokes on them because I don't want to use either of those phrases. 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, 00:01:02.400 --> 00:01:06.880 as long as they achieve a minimum of 40 trillion operations per second or 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:11.600 tops, which their current chips cannot, but more on that later. 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:14.880 The other things that make a co-pilot plus PC are 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:20.160 access to the most advanced AI models, to power a suite of new software features, 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:25.680 and all-day battery life, although some manufacturers already claimed to last for 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:29.200 multiple days before the other ones were like, okay, okay, Lenovo. 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. 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:40.080 We're talking 17 to 20 plus hours, depending on the model and the task. 00:01:40.080 --> 00:01:44.560 But many of these notebooks reportedly outperform an M3 MacBook Air. 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, 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:56.960 beating out the M3 MacBook Air in both single and multi-threaded performance. 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. 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:08.240 I didn't say numbers there, because Microsoft wanted these to be like MacBook so bad, 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:12.320 they copied Apple's horrible tradition of hiding the exact model name, 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 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 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:28.720 for business that were launched back in March. Those have Intel processors. 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:31.840 They are bad and dirty, don't think about them. 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:36.640 Instead, Microsoft said these new surfaces perform 80 to 90% faster 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:41.760 than their non-business predecessors, the Surface Pro 9 and Surface laptop 5. 00:02:41.760 --> 00:02:45.920 And they've got hardware upgrades, a haptic touchpad and smaller bezels 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:49.680 on both the 13.8 and 15-inch versions of the laptop, 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.000 and a new flex keyboard that works wild detached from the Surface Pro, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.160 which also sports a 13-inch OLED display for the first time. 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. 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 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.200 like Spectre, Pavilion, Dragonfly and Envy. 00:03:15.200 --> 00:03:19.200 New consumer HP notebooks will be called OmniBooks, 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. 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, 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:37.360 with, of course, various suffixes. HP announced one of each, powered by a Snapdragon X Elite. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:41.760 Dell has also gone all in, announcing the first XPS 13, 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:46.000 which is somewhat widely viewed as the MacBook of Windows PCs, 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:51.920 to feature a non-Intel processor. There's also an Inspiron 14 and 14 Plus, 00:03:51.920 --> 00:03:55.760 featuring the Snapdragon X Plus and two Latitude models. 00:03:55.760 --> 00:03:59.680 From Lenovo, we got a Yoga Slim 7X14 Gen 9 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.760 and a ThinkPad T14S Gen 6, you know those models. 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:07.360 ASUS announced a VivoBook S15 Acer, 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:13.440 showed off the Swift 14 AI, and Samsung showed off its Galaxy Book 4 Edge, 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:17.680 which you definitely want. Okay, you guys, you want this. 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, 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.320 not really matching the confidence of some of those other laptop makers. 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:28.720 Okay, but what about the new co-pilot-powered AI goodies in Windows? 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:33.600 Well, whether this is a goodie or not, depends on how you feel about privacy. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.040 Co-pilot plus PCs will have access to Recall, 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:42.720 which captures and locally stores a snapshot of everything you do on your PC 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.720 every few seconds, which you can ask co-pilot to retrieve later. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:52.880 Sounds like you have the ability to block Recall from capturing certain things, but no promises. 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:56.720 It's a curious little AI. It might take a little peek anyways, a little scamp. 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:00.320 There's also Super Resolution, which will upscale supported games, 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, 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:13.520 giving you pointers on how to do apparently almost anything, even crafting certain items in Minecraft. 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:19.520 That's thanks to the assistant's new support for OpenAI's natively multimodal GPT-40, 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:23.040 as well as multiple state-of-the-art AI models, 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:26.800 including Microsoft's own small language models. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.920 Microsoft says there are now over 40 such models 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:36.080 integrated deeply into Windows 11 on ARM, because remember, Windows on ARM used to suck, 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. 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:46.480 Microsoft really didn't talk about Prism that much, 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:50.880 which doesn't exactly inspire confidence, but who needs it anyway? 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:55.680 87% of the total app minutes people spend in apps today 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.680 have native ARM versions, so whatever. 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.960 And it's true, native ARM versions of Adobe Photoshop, 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:06.240 Lightroom, Firefly, and Express will launch with these new notebooks, 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:09.600 with Premiere Pro and Illustrator coming in the summer, 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.960 and a handful of AI features and other apps were discussed as well. 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:16.480 But this just leaves me wondering, what about Intel? 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:22.000 Their current chips cannot meet the co-pilot plus PC's tops requirements. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.720 Well, Team Blue actually released a teaser this morning for their upcoming Lunar Lake chips, 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.240 which should hit 45 tops on the NPU alone, 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:33.280 and 60 plus with help from the CPU and GPU, 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. 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:42.800 Leg day is coming. And we talked about AI PCs for a long time, 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.840 so in order to make sure today's editor, Oliver, doesn't murder me, 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:48.480 these are going to be real quick bits. Are you ready, okay? 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:50.320 Does that sound good, Oliver? 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:56.400 He's angry. Open AI is working to pause the use of Sky, 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:00.560 the voice they chose to demo GPT-4O's real-time capabilities, 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.880 which many viewers compared to Scarlett Johansson's voice in the movie Her, 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:08.400 even though Scar Joe gave more calmly intrigued, 00:07:08.400 --> 00:07:11.440 instead of obvious emotional manipulation. 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:15.840 Wow, so cute. I date me. 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:21.680 Apple has released version 17.5.1 of both iOS and iPadOS, 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:24.960 which the company says should fix that pesky bug from last week 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:31.120 that caused deleted photos, and in some cases, nudes, to reappear in the main photos library. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:37.920 Apple says the cause was database corruption, and not a harmless mischievous prank by Tim Cook. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.880 Oh, where'd those come from? Ha ha, got you. 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:45.440 Have you bought your mom an iPhone yet? At its IO 2024 conference, 00:07:45.440 --> 00:07:49.600 Google talked to Android developers about its Engage SDK, 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:54.880 a feature that offers a software surface from which devs can entice users 00:07:54.880 --> 00:07:59.040 to resume interacting with a specific part of their apps, 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:04.000 like promoting a particular shopping deal, or a new music recommendation feature. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.280 It can really enhance the way that it's... 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 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:15.840 where devs can show you ads for their app. 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:19.040 Come back, you didn't check this thing out. 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.720 I'm good. And Neuralink has gotten the go-ahead from the FDA 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:27.280 to implant a second person with the company's brain-computer interface. 00:08:27.280 --> 00:08:30.560 The first recipient, Noland Arbach, was heartbroken 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:34.800 when around 85% of the threads in his implant came loose, 00:08:34.800 --> 00:08:38.000 causing him to lose some functionality. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:42.080 Neuralink has since stabilized and optimized the remaining threads, 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.840 bringing back much of Arbach's cyberkinetic abilities. 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.040 But the incident is sure to make any applicants think twice 00:08:49.040 --> 00:08:52.640 about signing up to get a computer sewn into their brain. 00:08:52.640 --> 00:08:56.160 Let's just hope Neuralink doesn't pull a Tesla, Elon's other company, 00:08:56.160 --> 00:09:00.080 which just dropped its year-old support for Steam in the Cybertruck. 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. 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.440 They're completely different companies. Well, you better come back on Wednesday 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. 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:14.640 I heard that having them come apart isn't fun.