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Microsoft has announced a new lineup of Windows laptops and portable devices called Copilot+ AI PCs. These new bits of hardware feature built-in NPUs that will power a suite of AI features in Windows 11, running natively on local hardware. With a long list of partners, including Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, HP, Acer, and ASUS, Microsoft has also lifted the lid on its own Copilot+ AI PCs, the 11th edition Surface Pro and Surface Laptop.

These new devices are set to compete with Apple's new M4-powered iPad devices and current M3 Macbook offerings. The new Surface Copilot+ AI PCs sport the latest Qualcomm Arm-based Snapdragon X chips. The flagship Surface Pro ships with an OLED display, the Snapdragon X Elite processor, up to 32GB of LPDDR5x memory, and, in a very welcome move, a removable PCIe Gen 4 SSD.

With AI at the heart of Microsoft's vision for Windows, the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices include the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU with 45 TOPS of AI performance. Microsoft classifies an AI PC as featuring at least 40 TOPS of AI performance. This makes the new Snapdragon X-powered Copilot+ AI PCs and Surface devices some of the first single-chip Windows 11 devices to run Copilot locally.

Lenovo has just unveiled its latest Yoga Slim 7x and ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptops, both Copilot+ ready AI laptops with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X processors.

First up we've got Lenovo's new Yoga Slim 7x which features Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite processor with an on-board Hexagon NPU for AI workloads. There's a 14.5-inch 3K display (2944 x 1840) PureSight OLED display with up to 1000 nits of HDR brightness. There's up to 32GB of RAM, up to 1TB of SSD storage, 3 x USB-C ports with Power Delivery and DisplayPort 1.4 support.

Lenovo says its new Yoga Slim 7x laptop will have multiple days of battery life, which will be awesome to see in the flesh.

Acer has launched its first Copilot+ PC with the introduction of the new Swift 14 AI laptop, working with both Microsoft and Qualcomm on the new laptop.

The new Acer Swift 14 AI laptop features Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite or Snapdragon X Plus processors, both featuring a built-in NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for AI workloads. Microsoft has some strict requirements on Copilot+ AI PCs, with 16GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD storage, and an NPU to get the stamp of Copilot+ AI approval.

Inside the new Swift 14 AI laptop we've got a Snapdragon X Elite with 12 high-performance CPU cores based on TSMC's 4nm process node, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory, and up to 1TB of NVMe PCIe Gen4 SSD goodness. We've got a 14.5-inch 2560 x 1600 IPS display with a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 1440p QHD IR webcam that supports Acer's suite of AI-boosted conferencing tools in Acer PurifiedView 2.0 and Acer PurifiedVoice 2.0.

Dell has just announced 5 new Copilot+ AI PC laptops powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X series SoC.

The new XPS 13 (9345), Inspiron 14, Inspiron 14 Plus, Latitude 7455, and Latitude 5455 laptops all feature Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X SoC with an on-board NPU for AI workloads, ready for Microsoft's new Copilot+ branded AI PC era.

Dell's new XPS 13 laptop has a mid-range 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor with Dual Core Boost, with support for up to 64GB of RAM, up to 2TB of PCIe SSD storage (4TB in the future), and 3 x 13.4-inch display options: a 500-nit 1920 x 1200 non-touch IPS display at 120Hz refresh rate, a 500-nit 2560 x 1600 IPS display with HDR and 120Hz refresh rate, and a 400-nit 2880 x 1880 OLED display with HDR at the 60Hz refresh rate.

ORIGIN PC has just launched its latest gaming laptops with the introduction of the new EON16-SX, NSX-16, NSL-14, and NSL-16.

The new ORIGIN PC EON16-SX laptop features Intel's latest Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs, designed for the generation of AI with their built-in NPU and Intel AI Boost technology for AI workloads. ORIGIN PC's four new gaming laptops have all passed MIL-STD-810H-SPEC standards, passing extensive stress tests including extreme temperatures, humidity, shock, and more.

The new EON16-SX and NSX-16 gaming laptops fuse high-performance and portability, weighing just 4.29lbs and just 0.77 inches thin. Inside, they pack the new Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor (16 cores, 22 threads) with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 that's been tuned for a TGP of 105W, a 16-inch 2560 x 1600 resolution display at 240Hz, up to 16TB of SSD storage, and up to 64GB of DDR5 memory.

Sabrent has a hefty 40% discount ($189.99 down to $114) on its USB-C Universal Docking Station (DC-UICA) which has near-limitless potential with a slew of ports and features that will amplify your computing experience.

If you've got a laptop, ultrabook, Chromebook, Android smartphone or tablet, Apple MacBook, iPhone, or iPad, then the Sabrent USB-C Universal Docking Station would be your new BFF. We've got the entire thing connected through a 10Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 2x1) USB-C upstream host port that's designed for the latest systems.

Downstream, the Sabrent USB-C Universal Docking Station features 2 x 10Gbps USB-C ports, 2 x 5Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1x1 USB-A ports, and 2 x 480Mbps USB 2.0 USB-A ports. The first four of those can deliver 5V/1.5A, while the latter will be perfect for keyboards and mice.

Intel's Panther Lake processors will be powering up laptops in 2026, and a bunch of further revelations have been made courtesy of a Dell roadmap.

As discovered by VideoCardz, this hefty piece of spillage consists of a presentation from Dell about an XPS laptop with a Snapdragon X SoC, and it runs to something like 300 pages (including a deep dive into the design of the hardware).

While the material focuses on that Snapdragon portable in the main, it also contains roadmap details of laptops further out than that ARM-based XPS model, including Panther Lake and Nova Lake.

After weeks of beta testing, Apple has today made macOS 14.5 available for download by the public. The update is compatible with all macOS Sonoma-based Macs and comes more than two months after Apple made the macOS 14.4 update available to the world. However, anyone who hoped that Apple had spent those two months adding a ton of new features is unfortunately going to be left very disappointed indeed.

On the contrary, this macOS 14.5 update is far from exciting and while we would always suggest installing the latest macOS software updates, this one isn't going to knock your socks off. These kinds of updates often bring with them bug fixes and other improvements, but in terms of big new software features, you're going to be out of luck. That is, unless you're a big Apple News Plus user who also happens to be a fan of word games. And you like playing them on your Mac, of course.

Just like the iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5 updates, macOS 14.5 brings the Quartiles game to the Apple News app. It's an original daily word game that's available to all Apple News Plus subscribers, albeit only those who happen to be in the United States and Canada.

ASUS is going to have a helluva show at Computex 2024 this year, with 14 next-gen ROG, TUF, and ProArt laptops powered by AMD's next-gen Zen 5-based Strix Point APUs.

The new leaks are coming from ITHome, which reports that the leaked product page of the new 240W and 180W TOG Compact Plug adapter which lists the new variants. The new "W" models are the next-gen variants with AMD's Zen 5-based Strix Point APUs while the "U" variants are the Ryzen 8040 series "Hawk Point" APUs.

However, since this news hit the web, the new ASUS VivoBook S16 laptops have been teased with CPUs that aren't named in the Ryzen 8050 naming scheme. The new ASUS VivoBook S16 laptop has been teased on the official ASUS website with a CPU called the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 processor.

The new ASUS Zephyrus G16 will be powered by AMD's new 12-Core next-gen Ryzen "Strix Point" APU, which a South African retailer has leaked. The high-end AI and gaming laptop also comes packed with mobile GeForce RTX 4070 8GB graphics, 32GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 16-inch WQXGA OLED display. Although regional pricing varies, the listing price is translated to roughly $3,700 USD, so it won't be cheap.

The price could be a placeholder, with the final SKU launching at a much lower price point of around $2,000 USD. Based on information from a related ASUS leak, it seems that AMD's next-gen "Strix Point" Ryzen APU featured in the new ASUS Zephyrus G16 will be called the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 - a new naming convention from AMD that puts AI front and center.

That leak confirms that the APU features a 12-core, 24-thread CPU that clocks up to 5.1GHz (with 36MB of cache) with AI performance of up to 77 TOPS. Paired with the GeForce RTX 4070, it'll be an impressive machine for any AI or non-AI-related task.