Re: WTF is an AI PC?

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, Retrograde wrote:

On 2025-01-14, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

"It's an excuse to jack the prices of hardware for NPUs that have zero
use case for %99 of consumers"
=============
>
16 minute video overview: Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbOzaYU694U

>
It means "will not buy, do not need, go get fucked Microsoft."  Personal
anecdata, but hey.
>
I seem able to accomplish 90% of what I use computers for on a $30 Rasp
Pi or a $300 chromebook.
>

How did you clean the chromebook from any traces of google? Was it easy? As you say, for regular day to day browsing, all modern computers are vastly over powered. Therefore it is important for OS vendors to build a lot of excrement into their operating systems in order to force people to buy unnecessarily expensive hardware to be able to run it.