Hey there! MKRLLR here and welcome to the very first
MKRLLR Tech News Roundup. This is a show where I rant
about the latest news, trends and developments in technology. So let's get started. AI PCs. What's an AI PC
and why would I want to use an AI PC instead of just an ordinary PC? Now, this, term “AI PC” kind of has this blockchain-phone
vibe to it, right? It sounds very gimmicky. Well, you know, Intel has a page on it. And, apparently one of the things that make a PC
an AI PC is an NPU. the o
ther one is Copilot, the software, and also the shortcut button for Copilot. So, the AI PC is supposed to have this
Copilot key, right? It's a dedicated key
for... just to launch Copilot. But the thing is, I don't use Copilot. I don't like to use Copilot. Now, I don't have problems with it. It works. It does what it's supposed to. Of course not perfectly, as with other AI systems, but I just don't see that
fitting into my daily life. I mean, I would play with it,
just as I play with AI image gen
erators, but it's not really something
I would use every day. So it doesn't matter to me
whether or not my computer has a Copilot key,
or I have Copilot installed on my machine. And by the way,
I don't get to do anything about it because this is Windows
11, as you can see here, and it has Copilot in there,
whether I want it or not. But really,
what would get me excited about PCs is competition against Apple. Apple has been doing a very good job
with their, M-series chips. I mean, the M-series ch
ips, they perform
very well and they use a fraction of the power
that a comparable Intel chip would use. I mean, I use an M2 MacBook at work, and the battery lasts a whole day. I mean, I could go about
my entire workday, all eight hours of it, and I would still have, like, 50% left,
so that's great. That's what I want to see in the PC space. I want PC makers
to direct their energies toward building PCs
that can compete with MacBooks in terms of performance
and power efficiency. That's what I wan
t to see.
Give the MacBook a run for its money. If I need a device or a machine
that is power efficient, but at the same time
performant enough for me to be able to do real work,
I want to have more choices, right? That's what I want to see in the PC space. That's what would excite me. Not things like this. Because honestly,
I don't find this exciting. I mean, this kind of sounds like pure
marketing to me. This is, you know, this is
this is giving me blockchain-phone vibes. Remember those?
Next
up, iPad rumors. So there is a rumor going around
that the next iPad Pro, specifically the 12.9in iPad Pro,
is going to have an OLED screen. OLED is great.
I mean, I like OLED. My phone has an OLED screen. I love it,
and I wish my monitor is an OLED. But the thing is, I think hardware wise,
the iPad is okay. And I'm not just saying this about the iPad Pro,
I'm saying this about the whole lineup. I mean, the iPad has very capable
hardware. I have an iPad Air, and it works great. I mean, I'm able
to do video
workloads on it. I am able to edit 4K videos, even do motion graphics on it,
which is great. The problem is,
iPad software is very limited. It's not the hardware
that's holding it back. It's the software. I mean, you know, we got Stage Manager was it last year
or was it in 2022... which is good. It's a start,
but it's not quite there yet. I mean, I tried to be productive
on an iPad using Stage Manager. It just doesn't work. So, you know, I'd be more excited about the next big feature
s in iPadOS. than iPads going OLED. But again, OLED, you know,
that sounds good. I mean, OLED is good. I like OLED. Honorable mention: Microsoft is testing
a RAM limiter for Microsoft Edge. This is welcome news. RAM is not really
a problem for me anymore. But Chromium-based browsers, like Chrome and Microsoft Edge, have earned this reputation
for using too much memory. So this is this is a welcome change. Microsoft Edge is actually
not a bad browser. It's good. The only problem is that Microsoft
is pushing it too hard on people. But this is definitely welcome news. I wish more browsers had this because not
everybody has an abundance of RAM. So I guess that is it for this first edition
of the MKRLLR Tech News Roundup. Join me again next week for another one. Thanks for watching. Stay awesome.
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