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It is actually Copilot+ (minus a minor technicality that I’ll explain momentarily). In fact it’s the best and fastest/most powerful laptop CPU (well, APU actually) available that also has the fastest Copilot+ certified NPU AI Engine built-in (it’s about 50 TOPS, that is, 50 terra (50,000,000,000,000) AI operations per second. You see, Qualcomm signed a (temporary) exclusivity deal with Microsoft the effect of which was that only Qualcomm’s new ARM-based X Elite laptops could be called Copilot+ laptops at launch. [Some rather cynical folks might claim that only Qualcomm paid the requisite bribe, but there is no evidence for this, or at least insufficient evidence for the feds to invoke any antitrust action.] In reality, the primary aspects of the Copilot+ standard are an NPU with a power in the 45+ TOPS range, a sufficiently fast/powerful CPU (and probably enuf memory), and an extra keyboard button labeled Copilot+ for Windows to use (actually I’ve now also seen a micro-tabletop PC with such a button on the box). Now the spec was available to all laptop vendors using all CPU architectures, it’s just that only laptops with Qualcomm CPUs could call it a Copilot+ laptop up to and through the launch of the Qualcomm based Windows laptops - thus giving Qualcomm a sort-of media boost - and leading to some rather legitimate questions such as the one we’re answering here. Now the Qualcomm launch has happened, so I think the ban is over re calling a Copilot+ capable laptop a Copilot+ PC. But marketing has not caught up yet. Intel got the short end of the stick cuz although their fairly recent Ultra laptop series have a quite decent CPU containing a small NPU similar to the first- and second-generation AMD NPUs (which are 12 and 16 TOPS, respectively for AMD 7040 and 804x HS chips), those Intel and 1st/2nd gen AMD CPUs are nowhere near the Copilot-mandated minimum 45 TOPS. AMD fared better due to having acquired Xilinx and being in development of its 3rd gen XNA architecture for its NPU - to be released July 28 - and sporting 50 TOPS (and thus beating Qualcomm and beating Intel by a mile, at least until Intel probably catches up next round). So all Asus had to do was add the Copilot+ key to these new laptops containing AMD AI 300 series CPUs and voilla, you have a Copilot+ laptop. Note that the new AMD AI CPUs were renamed from AI 100 series to AI 300 series to denote that this is a 3rd gen AMD/Xilinx NPU architecture. (Bigger is better, lol, so I guess an AMD AI 9 HX 370 is better than an Intel Ultra 285H, right? Well it happens to be true in this particular case, yet still ya have to laugh at AMD and Intel competing on the naming battleground.) So this particular Asus P16 laptop, along with its brethren products the Zepherus G16 AMD version, are several of the best Copilot+ laptops available! The Copilot+ enabled variant of Windows 11 may or may not ship with the laptop (TBD). If not, it will be in the next Windows Update. There was such a bad reaction to the so-called keylogging feature that Microsoft had to disable that by default (whew!) so it may take a release or two to get a good version of Copilot. I recommend the AMD G16 2024 to gamers and the AMD P16 2024 to creators - both Copilot+ laptops. Also there are new 2024 Zenbooks that are Copilot+ as well cuz they have an AMD AI 300 series CPU and are really nice but have no discreet GPU, albeit the iGPU is claimed by some to be as fast as laptop 2050 GPU from a couple years ago.
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