Microsoft and Qualcomm’s AI Features Don’t Matter 

I feel like there is more effort put into FINDING a use for AI than effort saved by using AI

To be honest, i dont use ANY of these latest AI technology stuff. It's cool i guess, but I just dont care.

Wow, it's almost like we always cared about battery life. It's like laptop buyers buy laptops because they're laptops.

Their advertising should've been a business traveller going on a halfway-round-the-world journey, using the laptop all the way, doing their work, watching a movie or two, playing some casual games, all without ever once having to plug it in. Equate the Snapdragon brand with massive battery life, and instruct the viewer to look out for the logo. Sorted.

The average in market consumer just wants a tablet with a laptop interface which is why the M series has been so successful. I ended up getting an M1 base model air for $700. It's not a gaming or workstation device due to passive cooling but it doesn't need to be. It's quick, the battery lasts all day, and I can close the lid at a moment's notice and it'll be instantly asleep using almost no battery, never wake up on its own while closed, and immediately be up and running at full power a second after I open it back up. It's the perfect "netbook" despite that category being discontinued. That's all Microsoft has to do with SnapDragon, deliver a more budget friendly option on the bottom and more powerful variations on the top. None of this AI shit or trying to pretend that every model is a workstation. Fast, cheap, lightweight, reliable laptops with good battery life are what 90% of people want, and the remaining 10% are far more interested in raw power with a discrete GPU than anything co-pilot is or will ever become.

"I really wish ARM chips could compete with x86 in a meaningful way these days" *A finger on the monkey's paw curls and a marketing lead from Microsoft's Co-Pilot program dials Qualcomm*

I’m an audio engineer and use stem separation for a few special uses every once in a while and there are many of those programs that have been around for a very long time. Some fairly newer ones would be Moises, or Logic Stem Split but there were others before that.

For whoever is wondering, my launch day Surface Pro 11 has gone to sleep and woken up reliably, just like a phone, every single time since I got it. Single biggest game changer, perhaps even more than the battery life. I turn it off if I'm standing up from bed and going to the living room and turn it back on when I sit down and it goes off and on immediately and unlocks instantly. Power draw in sleep is near zero consistently as well. 1-2% loss overnight, if that.

I said that before and I've been called names because of it, but I have to repeat myself: these "ai" functionalities are nothing more than toys, they are fun to play around with, but they have literal ZERO use outside of "look how cool this is", and I can't stress enough how much everyone seems to over-hype anything "ai" related. maybe in the future it will evolve into a useful tool, but as of now nothing "ai" related seems to be more than novelty fluff with text-to-speech attached to it.

“But battery life” goes hand in hand with “But stays cool”. Less power is less heat as I found with the M1, it’s just great all around. You won’t be missed, Intel.

With so many companies embracing enshitification, it's gonna be hard to find things you can honestly be positive about.

Luke saying "You're the one who wanted the lab" at 13:50 or so, pretty much sums up my thoughts on the whole review scandal. Linus, when you personally market something like you have done for the lab, as this super professionally done in depth operation that's going to be a great new standard for everyone to have access to, then yes people will have much higher standards for you and the content you release. And no, the labs have not been living up to those standards in every regard. It sounds to me like you want to do more casual reviews but with extra gear, which is perfectly fine! But then maybe you should be rethinking what the labs thing is all about, or at least how you market it.

The crazy thing about 3D is that everything surrounding it is super cheap and accessible, but the ways to actually view it are prohibitively expensive. Like, you can record spatial video on an iPhone now, but you need an Apple Vision Pro to watch it. Or, you can get 3D blu-rays for not much more than a regular blu-ray, and you can get a second-hand PS4 as a cheap player, and the glasses are also still really cheap, but then to watch that blu-ray you need to find a 3D-capable TV or projector. There’s a plethora of 3D content out there to consume, but we’re missing that one crucial piece of the puzzle that would let us consume it.

I really don’t get it, I’m constantly wanting to remove background music from videos I watch on RU-vid, the tech is now here, it could be a part of the audio mixer on Windows, but no, they create useless things like cocreate

I want a Copilot + PC because with the press of a button I can learn more about John Backflip

Wow what a sunrise. People do not want to be spied on 24/7. Who’d have thought Microsoft. Even if recall is on hold, there’s plenty of other telemetry baked into Windows 11. I mean it’s not like it’s very popular to begin with. Only by literally forcing people to use Windows 11 the market share seems to slowly grow. But I expect many to jump ship to Macs… and a smaller percentage of people who jump to Linux

Obligatory "connected standby was a mistake" reminder

For anyone curious, I got the Galaxy Book 4 Edge about a week ago, and I close it pretty much every time I walk away. So I'd say at least 30 times a day, and only one time did I have an issue waking from sleep (the screen was white for 10 seconds, then it was fine). It has also been draining 1-3% battery overnight on average.

I don't exactly agree with Linus' point of "you can get away with most of what you do on a mac with first party software". _Most_ people can do that on windows as well. The main issue on windows is the expectation that older software should "just work", but most advanced mac users don't have the same expectation.

I like my AI to be in a box, that runs when I open a program, and stop running when I close that program, I dont need it to be running on the background at the OS level

On the AMD video, I appreciated it. I understand that LTT is both an entertainment and a Tech channel, but I also use your channel as a reference point when doing research for my own computer upgrades, knowing the insanity of how branding and model versions work is extremely helpful.

Track separation already exist it's been a thing since early 2000s no AI required for that. xD

i often notice my windows tries to sneakily update and add copilot into my windows. its not subtle and i just uninstall it straight away

I still think LTT is an entertainment channel. I'm here for the funny Canadian man dropping GPUs. If I want facts I watch GN and if I want to build some rightous wrath I watch Louis Rossman.

If these Windows ARM laptops had better software support and didn't have Recall I probably would've been a lot more interested in them, but I and many other people aren't quite sold on having what's essentially spyware baked into the OS as well as compatibility issues on a $900+ laptop even if the battery is drastically better. Wake me up when Microsoft gets enough developers on board to prove Windows on ARM is a viable platform

Is it weird I’ve never used ai for anything? Never asked it a question. Never talked to a bot. It’s all useless I feel

If a product is bad, it's a good idea to let people know about it. If you don't want a lot of negativity, you could split the difference and throw out some rapid reviews while linking to the full information on your site. Rapid reviews could be some 5-minute video of each product, such as the PSU you show at the end of this clip, that just quickly goes over some bullet points about why it's good and/or bad. That would help inform people in a way that's FAR more likely to actually be successful than having them read text on a site while keeping the negativity to a minimum. Ignoring the negativity isn't going to make it go away, it'll just allow its further rise. When a bad product gains popularity, especially if it's potentially dangerous, it's important to make people aware of the fact it's bad so they don't make a bad purchase. If people make too many bad purchases, bad products become more commonplace, and though you guys at LTT obviously can't prevent everyone from making the mistake of purchasing bad products, you do have the size to certainly make a sizable dent.

I’m here for the “tired of being angry” sentiment.

I think that a lot of your core audience now is pretty old now. When I started watching LTT I was 13 and now I am 22. I end up watching WAN Show more often than LTT. I also don't spend as much time watching RU-vid like before because of work and other activities. Before I could go out with friends, go to school and watch RU-vid but now it's harder.

it's always the best practices to read reviews before buying power supply from any brand especially the one that made almost every parts of the PC itself, because most of them uses unkown OEMs

The problem with ai in current apps is that it's executed as a gimmicky, extra steps, novelty. They feel like they have to do this for understandable reasons, without that it's just a small efficacy improvement that we'd just wave away as expected algorithm improvements.

keep making videos about news and malpractices from companies. ltt is how i learn and keep myself up to date everything about tech world. saves me the hassle of browsing everything individually. love how you guy explain things, makes it much easier for a noobie like me. :)

I think it would be fair to have both the highly technical tests and the jerryrigged almost-just-a-guess result test, as long it's made very clear what's scientific and what's "we got testing at home" tests.

Linus describing his burn-out over bad news reminds me of when Gordon Ramsay stopped doing Kitchen Nightmares. Negative realities are important but they are also draining.

The issue is only one: you can already use CHATGPT on your browser or your smartphone, same with other AI features avaible on websites or softwares like Adobe. For example audio separation was already a support on lots of softwares. So. Why should I buy a product for a feature I already have?

cutting out doom scrolling and shitposting has massively contributed to a mood uplift and improvement in social/general life. luckily tech/game linked is so much fun that it masks the badness of the news.

I feel like you could probably split your “negative but helpful” content between Techlinked, Techquickie, and WAN show, and then LTT would have just the fun stuff left.

The video going into the weeds on the monitor that could switch refresh rates was awesome. Please don't stop working on those! Same with the false advertising video. Important work!

"Igniting sparks". Stop it, babe. I'm turning red.

It’s almost like there are no legitimate applications of AI that the average person would want to use yet.

The no. 1 driving factor behind the AI craze is the potential for employers to layoff huge swathes of their workforce. That’s it. It’s not about empowering people or curing cancer or reducing inefficiency. It’s about firing artists, support staff, testers, developers and everyone who doesn’t own stock. These companies see their staff as a liability, an unfortunate cost. It’s why ‘full stack’ roles became a thing: hire one person to do the job of three. It’s why ‘agile’ became a thing: why design or spec a product when you can push out an MVP release, let the customer test it, and ‘iterate’. It’s all about the dollar.

Especially with the clips channel being where it is now, I'd definitely be ok with the main LTT videos being the fun times and WAN show containing the more "let's get angry about terrible ideas and products" place

Every AI implementation I've seen has felt like a video game that was launched before it was done.

The biggest annoyance for me with Best Buy is that we're expected to tout that the current lineup Copilot+ PCs are perfect for everyone in every use case. And sure I guess you can argue that something with more features is better than something without, but I can also spend half the money and get a sufficient laptop for a college kid too. Copilot features don't actually add that much value for the vast majority of people, especially for the cost of the current Copilot+ options. If we'd just emphasized them as laptops with the battery life you'd expect from a MacBook Air, that enough would've made more sense

LTT graphs are bad because they're rarely in a consistent order, and the color coding often carries little meaning. It's not that any individual graph is bad, it's that the graphs are part of a video and don't seem to have any intentionality to go together. The Snapdragon video got so much criticisms because the conclusions were very different than most others. Don't want to throw too much shade, but the Just Josh video was much better.

I agree with Linus towards the middle of this video. Tech used to be so much fun, and such massive leaps. Think about going from the PS2 to the PS3, better looking games, more connectivity, etc. Or going from an iPod Shuffle to a full iPod with Video. Being able to add more songs than you could ever listen to. Now we just upgrade a few devices and barely notice the upgrades.

The track isolation works on regular CPUs, virtual DJ, Serato and others do it, is just a really good algorithm.

Linus moving from a RU-vid channel built out of a tech store to a tech store built out of a RU-vid channel is the full circle I want to see in my lifetime. 🙏

the computer wont unless you go in and turn off modern standby, or if the manufacturer didnt turn on hibernate automatically after 5 minutes of inactivity. I know this because i had to turn it off on my alienware x15, and my rog ally is configurered to hibernate after 5 minutes. its a setting in armoury crate called standby assist. it's crazy that modern standby is even a thing

Modern Corpos "Let's add all these things no one asked for." *they add one feature that everyone has been asking for over a decade by proxy* Modern Corpos: ????!?!?

I'm with Linus on the stereoscopic 3d. I recently got back into the 3ds and forgot about how awesome the technology is. Also imagine a stereoscopic 3d pc setup with a 3ds emulator. Would actually love to see a video on that

The AMD video was educational and necessary. I thought I knew a thing or two but would have assumed any 7000 series chip is the latest. I'll make sure to ask Google rather than memory which digit is the generation.

It's almost like the primary complaints for most Windows laptops have always been the battery life, heat, and fan noise, and NOT a lack of AI functionality 😂

my mom is an architect, but she is 60+ years old and the autocad software is really hard for her to understand and do stuff. AI could greatly help her understand the software better. They need to think about this situations that the AI can be a gateway for people who dont understand some new tech.

Most of theese things are flashy to try once and most of the time never touch even tough i feel that you can find many uses that can speed up work or something.

Does anyone else feel like NFT in games all over again? I remember executives getting really excited about NFT in games, but hardly any gamers were remotely interested.

I never have standby issues with my GPD Pocket 3, I close the lid, forget it a few weeks, open it and its still at ruffly the same charge. My iPad is always empty after a few days of not using it...

As an HP Sales Rep it even confuses me. All they get are 3 features whilst Copilot itself is not mainstream at all. Windows 11 felt like it just came out, and nobody's thinking of these AI enhancements. The image stuff is cool to mess with, I show customers all the time how it can draw sonic the hedgehog playing basketball. It's an eye catcher for brainstorming artists, but everything else... Its just a chatgpt button. It helps really specific people but it's too new, those people probably paid for a tool already since it hasn't been mainstream.

I want Linus to take In consideration, that someone like myself thinks learning, and being educated about technical things is entertaining!

The crayon idea is BRILLIANT! I think it would be a really playful way to communicate the different levels of info people want to see.

The AMD video is important i think, holding companies accountable for anti consumer practices as often as possible is important i think

1:40 Funny you said that. AFAIK there is NO non-AI track separation, it's just not possible to do automatically, not to mention on the fly. The only difference between past and current tools is the complexity of models, which in the past were extremely simplified to run quickly on the CPU, but now can leverage GPU or dedicated AI cores properly.

the AI push has been one of the stupidest marketing pushes I have seen in a long time.

I miss the LTT kitchen days, it felt more like the days of just hanging out with your friends talking about tech stuff

Just use a strip plot or box plot without error bars. Very simple and relatively intuitive

I personally like the cynical videos, and especially that AMD video on their misleading new numbering scheme is important, though some may find them boring and they may not get as much viewership, I think they’d still be worth doing occasionally. And I’m extremely interested in that 3D in 2024 video idea. I still have an old Vizio Passive 3D TV, unfortunately it seems like the chip is dying on it and causing everything to be in black & white, though on a rare occasion, when power cycling it multiple time, it might go back into full color. I really wish I could fix it.

I thought the dual-mode monitor video was pretty interesting!

Just please dont lock the reviews behind a paywall once the website takes off, like Rtings did. Sometimes the person isnt looking up testing because they want the best money can buy, they’re doing it because they dont want to waste what little money they have.

-the super nerdy content (maybe another channel with a nerdy host to explain the stuff) +more stuff like scrapyard wars, bulild challanges, wacky tech

Someone forgot that this is a short clip, and just left the rambling on the edit... I'm 18 min into the video, and the subject that made me click on it ended like 5 minutes ago, and there are still almost 20 minutes to watch... We need a clips channel for the LMG Clips channel

AI is a marginal consumer product, which means, the coming changes wrought by AI in the data center will be even more baffling to the average consumer.

With Windows on ARM becoming more mainstream and hopefully better, it would be really cool and useful to see return of Windows on Mac

…. I can help run the tech repair shop, over 15 years in running mom and pop “break and fix” shops. Currently working in medical IT

Linus you did help me change my life, the current job i am in and the field that i work on I only know so much about was because i started watching you guys back in school, started with the techquicky videos on "how much vram is enough" and from there to now I would like to thank you for this. Watching ur video got me more and more into understand and keeping up with new technology and that helped me during my college, internship and now job. Working at the brand who's product naming u described only cause from that school time i got into tech and always had that extra knowledge about all these things. Thank you and yes some times things need to change but it doesn't mean what you guys are doing isnt correct. Most of us don't criticize or appreciate much, we just watch, absorb and enjoy.

I loved the dual mode monitor video, it was very interesting and educational, as well as entertaining.

I started to deliberately avoid anything marketed with AI. It's been nice, saving a lot of money

The DJ real time track separation is already available on x86 systems. Some, like VDJ, use the GPU to do it. There's nothing new about this. Maybe these new arm based chips make the performance eat less power, but it's already available for us DJ's a long time.

Don't know if you guys have talked about this, I think a really cool video would be building a virtual pinball cabinet for the employee lounge

The thing is this isn't "1st Gen" it is more like 1.5 because of all the time they had with Windows 10/11 ( and 8) that worked on ARM. They had some experience with ARM chips by the time of X Elite chips came out so it wasn't like Apple M1 transition.

OK but that crayon idea is really good

I would also love to have a stereoscopic 3D gaming setup in 2024! I feel like it never got to a point of showing its full potential.

Dude i loved the 3d on the "new" 3ds it was so good

if it failed mark it bold or something cuz from a glance it shows it has 2 - and one + but that it failed is a big one that surpasses any pro con list

Alex and Linus coolinf adventures is a great series

track separation been in for years

9:22 Linus said delve? I didn't know he's a large language model!

live captions with translation i can see a use for, i sometimes need stuff thats in hindi or chinese (mostly tech/electronics related), and i cant understand either of these languages so live captions are my only hope.

When I clicked on the video, I did not expect to be hearing about the direction Linus wants to take. But that conversation was very refreshing to hear.

not to mention AI stem separation for music has been a thing already for YEARS and you can do it for free online with apps like Moises. Also VirtualDJ, DJing software that is also free to use (albeit with limitations) also has the track separation and it's very decent.

I just want an arm laptop that doesn’t have the copilot+ garbage, the pluton “security” chip, or Apple’s walled garden.

Yooo I'd love a video on stereoscopic 3d projection in 2024

The bigger picture that is getting missed is that companies are pushing their capabilities into AI features to prevent competition with open source code contributions. And startup developers.

It seems in most industries tech, cars, video games, etc the people at the top making the decisions have no idea what normal everyday people want

25:40 or in other words, literally exactly what the new 3ds was doing in 2015

Once again marketing has created a solution in search of a problem.

I work with AI in designing panelized wood walls everyday. If there came a day where this software could place every stud, holddown, door, and window rough opening for me where all I had to do was feed it the plans, code books, and other information it needed to put it together automatically, I'd be ecstatic. I get the AI hype, I just don't understand tech companies treating it like an end to itself rather than a tool designed for specific applications to reduce time spent on processes that could be automated.

AI is the latest tulip craze (after NFTs/crypto failed and "the cloud" ran its course).

Literally the only thing Apple's missing for me is a more manageable pricing ladder, a cell modem, and more interesting colours

Some ai stuff is cool, like being able to un-crop a photo, or generate an image for a pun, but these capabilities aren't like changing, they're just like 5% better

I have no use for any ai features and I doubt I ever will 🙂