The 3 Best Things About Copilot Plus PCs (and 3 Things They Need to Add)

When Microsoft and Qualcomm teamed up last year to take another shot at Windows on Arm, the pair introduced a new generation of Windows laptops based on Qualcomm Snapdragon X mobile processors. Dubbed Copilot Plus PCs, these new laptops promised all-day battery life and came equipped with AI features and a neural processing unit (NPU) designed to tackle those AI tasks on-device instead of relying solely on servers in the cloud. Microsoft defines a Copilot Plus PC as a laptop that has an NPU capable of more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), 16GB or more of RAM and at least 256GB of storage. The memory and especially the storage requirements are fairly basic specs for a modern laptop, making the 40-TOPS NPU the real dividing line between a Copilot Plus PC and one that's not. Since the introduction of the first Snapdragon X-based Copilot Plus PCs, Intel and AMD have released chips that meet the 40-TOPS threshold; Intel with its "Lunar Lake" Core Ultra 200V series and AMD wit ... Read full article.