[GTALUG] new class of Windows Notebooks: "Copilot+ PC"

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

These were just intruduced by Microsoft.

As usual, a lot of smoke around this.

- new ARM-based processor family from Qualcomm "Snapdragon X"

- performance supposedly better than Apple's M series (for now)

- like all new processors, it contains an NPU (for accelerating AI)

- price seems to be Apple-like:
<https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/copilot-pc/ci/40407>
  This is for pre-orders from a US discount store, in US dollars.

- most models are from Microsoft so far.  There is one Asus and one 
  Lenovo.

- my understanding is that they won't run Linux now.
  Linux support for the processor is being promised by Qualcomm
  but it isn't yet ready.
  It may be that the "Copilot+ PC" models lock out Linux anyway
  (my impression is that previous ARM-based Surfaces did that).

- Microsoft is pushing these as being able to run LLMs locally and that 
  the new version of Windows will delightfully exploit this.

- A centrepiece of this is something called Recall that assists you in 
  finding (computer) things that you used previously

Summary: in six months or a year these might be interesting to Linux 
users.  Right now they are too expensive and not compatible.

Trivia: the least expensive models listed on BH Photo are US$999.99 
These do not have enough resources to run Recall.