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> It's a PC that has a decent NPU.

Nondeterministic processing unit?

Neural Processing Unit

But all they add to Windows is optical character recognition and webcam backgrounds, so really they're just ultra efficient GPUs, nothing neural about it

I assumed they would do some kind of local LLM that helped me find files, but no, the search function in windows explorer has actually regressed and no longer matches on exact substrings.

The regression is just there so they can introduce "AI" powered search next year.

There are a lot more features than that.

Those are the only ones I noticed. After googling around there is supposed to be automatic captioning and translation in video calls which does sound useful, plus image generation in Paint

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