Here’s the elevator pitch from every PC maker in the AI era: Buy our AI PCs to run your own local AI models that are secure, and tailored to your needs. Oh, and they will likely be cheaper in the long run than cloud-based AI, which is increasingly expensive as AI companies raise prices to justify their AI infrastructural cost.
That’s my takeaway from last week’s HP Elevate Singapore 2026, a showcase of HP’s latest offerings. Which is still very much like the HP products from before AI — business laptops, workstations and printers. Except that they now sport AI capabilities, and come with AI tools, including HP’s own take — HP IQ — that combines local AI with HP’s other enterprise tools for collaboration and analytics.
There’s just one catch: PCs aren’t immune from rising costs, either. Thanks to the insatiable hunger for memory and storage from AI data cent…
