I haven’t been this excited about Windows laptops in a long time. Because for the first time in years, there’s real competition in this space. AMD has been chipping away at Intel’s market share, but it’s not just AMD anymore. Qualcomm has also entered the game, and is looking mighty impressive after previous false starts.
I recently got my hands on two new laptops: The Asus Zenbook S 16 sports AMD’s latest Ryzen AI 9 HX 365 processor, while the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x uses Qualcomm’s ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite chip. Notably, both laptops will also support Microsoft’s more capable Copilot+ with their built-in neural processing unit (NPU). Copilot+ offers more AI features, like the image generation Cocreator feature in the Paint app. Caveat: AMD’s Ryzen AI laptops will only get Copilot+ in a Windows update later this year.
More importantly, Intel’s current laptops won’t get Copilot+ because the integrated NPU in the latest Intel C…
