WINDOWS COPILOT+ PCS AREN'T THERE YET: 8 MUST-CHANGE GRADES FOR 2025

IF AI IS THE FUTURE OF WINDOWS, COPILOT+ PCS WILL NEED SOME SERIOUS IMPROVEMENTS.

- CHRIS HOFFMAN

It seems like every new laptop lately is a “Windows Copilot+ PC” (fave. co/3B3IDKs). With Intel’s Lunar Lake (fave.co/402SDh2) and AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 (fave.co/3MtBrJH) CPUs, AI-infused Copilot+ PCs have finally expanded into traditional x86 laptop territory. They aren’t limited to just Arm-powered laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite hardware anymore.

That’s good news for everyone. Along with speedy neural processing units (NPU), fave.co/3A6cIZ1, which are capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS), fave.co/3M8R3Sp, Copilot+ PCs must have at least 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. If that’s the new baseline for Windows PCs, that’s awesome. It will benefit you even if you don’t care about AI.

So, your next laptop might just be a Copilot+ PC. But if you ask me, Copilot+ PCs still leave a lot to be desired. While those minimum specs are great, there’s more to a great laptop experience than hardware. If Microsoft wants people to truly care about Copilot+ PCs, some serious improvements need to happen sooner rather than later.

WINDOWS NEEDS TO INTEGRATE AI BETTER

Copilot+ PCs should feel more revolutionary than they currently do. At launch, we got a collection of small features (fave.co/4f3NQkw) in apps like Paint and Photos, some webcam effects, and a few other goodies. It’s just not a transformative AI experience the way those Copilot+ PC ads promised.

Microsoft unveiled new features, including creative filters.

When I hear about transformative AI integration in Windows, I imagine Windows rewriting text in any application, or summarizing anything that’s on the screen, or noticing I’m performing a repetitive task and offering to automate it for me.

What if Windows AI truly