on-device ai

Lenovo’s Yoga 9i 14 Gen 10 Aura Edition tops PCMag UK’s 2025 list of the best 2‑in‑1 laptops, but the year’s roundup is far from a single‑device story: OEMs have pushed aggressively on OLED panels, on‑device AI (NPUs/Copilot+ readiness), and form‑factor variety — from dual‑OLED experiments to...

Dell’s 2025 laptop lineup is both familiar and brand-new: the familiar family of Inspiron, XPS, Latitude and Precision has been reorganized, while the company’s best models — from the mainstream Dell 14 Plus to the high-end Precision/Pro Max workstations and Alienware gaming rigs — remain the...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview quietly lays the groundwork for a new class of on‑device automation: an Agent Workspace and an experimental toggle that prepares Windows 11 to let AI agents act on your behalf inside a contained session — a move that shifts the OS from suggestion to action...

Microsoft is bringing Sysmon — the long-favored Sysinternals tool for deep Windows telemetry — into Windows itself as an optional, native capability for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025, a change that promises to simplify deployment, add official support, and shift how enterprises collect...

AMD’s push to make Windows 11 PCs smarter and Microsoft’s decision to make Windows “agentic” collided this autumn in a pair of announcements that together redraw the boundaries between silicon, operating system, and security — and they raise as many questions as they promise solutions. AMD’s...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 roadmap is rolling out a tightly focused set of AI productivity tools that aim to make writing, dictation, message triage, and image accessibility faster and less painful — and they’re arriving with a split delivery model that uses cloud AI for broad compatibility and...

Microsoft’s plan to recast Windows 11 as an agentic operating system—one that anticipates needs and takes action via autonomous AI agents—has provoked an unprecedented wave of user and developer backlash, exposing fault lines in trust, privacy, and platform stewardship that Microsoft must...

Elon Musk’s blunt public rebuke of Microsoft’s Windows marketing has become the latest flashpoint in a months‑long debate over the direction of the PC platform — and it’s doing exactly what high‑profile criticism always does: forcing technical claims, marketing promises, and product trade‑offs...

A quiet musical revolution is taking place at the intersection of on-device AI, cloud services and a surprising analogue comeback: vinyl records — and Acer’s new Copilot+ laptops are at the centre of it, helping companies such as elasticStage scale an on‑demand vinyl business while reimagining...

Qualcomm’s new Dragonwing IQ‑X family marks a deliberate push into ruggedized industrial Windows PCs, packing Oryon CPU cores, an Adreno GPU and a mid‑range Hexagon NPU rated up to 45 TOPS into COM/SOM‑friendly packages built for prolonged field use and long product lifecycles. Background /...

Samsung’s new Galaxy Book5 Edge drops into the thin-and-light laptop market with a striking focus on on-device AI: a 15.6-inch chassis powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) silicon, a dedicated Copilot AI key, and a collection of Copilot+ style features built to run locally on a 45‑TOPS...

Microsoft’s push to put generative AI and on-device assistants at the center of the PC buying decision has reshaped what “best laptop” means: it’s no longer only about CPU cores, screen size, and SSD capacity — it’s also about whether the machine has a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) capable of...

Microsoft’s short, promotional post that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS” has lit a rare and intense backlash across social platforms, developer forums, and consumer press — a backlash that exposes a deepening trust gap between Microsoft’s AI-first ambitions and the expectations of many...

The Surface Pro’s design language—detachable keyboard, integrated kickstand and tablet-first ergonomics—has quietly become the de facto blueprint for a new generation of ARM-powered laptops running Android, and that convergence is already reshaping expectations about portability, battery life...

Microsoft’s “big pause” on AI datacenter expansion is not a stumble so much as a strategic reset — one that exposes the tension between raw compute-scale ambitions and the practical realities of energy, cost, product economics, and the new monetization mechanics Microsoft is building around...

A slick fan-made mockup called “Windows 26” has reignited a familiar debate: should Microsoft chase a glittering, agentic future powered by on-device AI, or return to the fundamentals Windows users keep asking for — speed, consistency, and less bloat? The short answer: both visions coexist in...

When Microsoft’s Windows president wrote that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS,” the short version of the fallout was immediate: a massive wave of public skepticism, sharp criticism from veteran users, and renewed demands that Microsoft fix the basics before reimagining the desktop as an...

For users who split their days between spreadsheets, photo edits, and late-night matches, the combination of AMD Ryzen processors and Windows 11 is increasingly being marketed — and verified — as the smarter way to play, create, and work, blending sustained battery life, on-device AI, and a set...

Microsoft’s Canary-channel build has made one thing abundantly clear: Windows 11 version 26H1 is a platform branch, not the next mass‑market feature update, and most users—home consumers and enterprise fleets alike—do not need to change course today. The Windows Insider team pushed Build 28000...

PCMag UK’s 2025 business-laptop roundup crystallizes a clear trend: modern work machines are no longer mere office tools — they’re purpose-built platforms for hybrid work, on-device AI, and creative workloads, with OLED and AMOLED displays, NPUs (neural processing units) for local AI, and 16 GB...