Some important points that were not mentioned: Previous models had an actual speaker grille. This year's model has an inferior speaker to past years Microsoft requires laptop NPUs to have 40 TOPS for Copilot. But Intel Core Ultra 7 only has 12, so it won't run copilot locally
NPU is something the educated users won't wish to have. Because of it, the end-2-end encryption has become useless (Microsoft is literally grabbing screenshots, reading the text from it with NPU and logging). So no NPU please.