If you still haven’t upgraded your PC to handle Windows 11, maybe this was the moment you’ve been waiting for. Microsoft announced new Copilot+ PCs, designed especially for artificial intelligence (AI).
Copilot+ PCs: the Fastest, Most Intelligent Windows PC
Windows held a special event this week to introduce Copilot+ PCs. The new silicon included in these machines can perform more than 40 trillion operations per second. It has an all-day battery life and provides access, of course, to advanced AI.
These PCs are light Microsoft Surface devices that are manufactured and sold by Microsoft’s OEM partners: Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and SAMSUNG. Of course, Copilot isn’t new to PCs, but powerful machines with “Copilot” in the name is new. The company claims to have redesigned the Surface: the OS, the application layer, the cloud, etc. They see it as the most significant change to the Windows platform in a long time.
A new system architecture includes the CPU, GPU, and a new high-performance Neural Processing Unit, meant to enhance LLMs and SLMs. All of this makes the Copilot PCs up to 20 times more powerful and up to 100 times as efficient with AI. Microsoft says they outperform the MacBook Air 15” by 58 percent, but Apple is saying similar things about its new iPad Pros, which also have a powerful, new silicon chip in the M4.
The new Surfaces can provide up to 22 hours of video viewing or 15 hours of web browsing before the battery runs out. They have the fastest implementation of the Microsoft 365 apps, like Teams, Outlook, Word, etc. Additionally, Chrome, Spotify, Zoom, WhatsApp, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, Blender, and more run natively on Arm. The new Prism emulator will make native and emulated apps run great.
Copilot+ PCs Engineered to Work Great on AI
Where the new Copilot+ PCs really shine is with AI, utilizing the power of the processors and new AI models. One new function of the AI is designed around solving an issue that is too familiar to most of us: finding something that you have previously stored on your PC. Instead of needing to remember which folder or email it’s in, you can use Recall.
It helps you remember where things are, based on relationships and associations from your experiences on your PC. Make use of a timeline and object recognition. You decide what gets saved in Recall.
Do more than Image Creator can do, thanks to the CPUs and SLMs. Create new images with text prompts and ink strokes, almost in real time with Cocreator. The images will evolve along with your ideas. Diffusion-based algorithms produce the highest quality in minimal steps. Restyle Image combines image generation and photo editing to bring new style to images in Photos. Generate as many photos as you would like. There are no limits here.
As mentioned earlier, Microsoft is also partnering with some third-party applications to bring even more AI to Copilot+ PCs: top Adobe apps, DaVinci Resolve Studio, CapCut, LiquidText, dJay Pro, and more. There’s also Live Captions for live translations and enhanced Windows Studio Effects.
Preorders on the Copilot+ PCs, from a variety of manufacturers, have already started. Availability begins on June 18. They start at $999, and it’s probably not a coincidence that the iPad Pros start at the same price. Until then, you can learn some fun things you can do with Copilot.
Image credit: Microsoft
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Laura has spent more than 20 years writing news, reviews, and op-eds, with the majority of those years as an editor as well. She has exclusively used Apple products for the past 35 years. In addition to writing and editing at MTE, she also runs the site’s sponsored review program.
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