by Devin | Nov 4, 2025 | AI, Computers, Hardware, Intel, Software, Windows
It’s late 2025 and Microsoft has delivered some special features. I didn’t like taking the 16″ MacBook Pro on airplanes, so I kept an eye out and got a deal on a Snapdragon X Elite laptop, $426 for a “refurbished” and “open...
by Devin | Oct 6, 2024 | AI, AMD, Apple, Computers, Hardware, Intel, macOS, NVidia, Software, Windows
It’s late 2024 and the NPU still feels silly. Tech companies like Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, and even Apple want casual users to care about running LLM or image generation models on local hardware like laptops. As we’ve mentioned, they want to avoid...
by Devin | May 9, 2024 | AI, Bugs, Software, UI / UX, Windows
Ai has helped us learn the value of summary. We don’t want to read all of those things on the display! Can you summarize these hundreds of pages? We want robots to read for us and give us the important bits. The AutoSummarize feature was removed after the 2007...
by Devin | Apr 19, 2024 | AI, Gadgets, Hardware, NVidia
The general public has a short attention span and low technical aptitude. White papers, specs, and benchmarks quickly bore people. But there’s an attraction that warms hearts and receives mainstream press coverage: robots! Robot attractions have awed...
by Devin | Apr 1, 2024 | AI, AMD, Computers, Hardware, Intel, NVidia, Software
In the beginning, the GPU was intended to send video to the display. Back then, the data flowed primarily in one direction, from CPU to GPU and then to display. In 2007, NVidia released CUDA, a radical shift. CUDA would allow data to flow from CPU to GPU, processed...
by Devin | Mar 29, 2024 | AI, AMD, Computers, Hardware, NVidia
AMD and Intel want us to believe that the NPU is the future. There are currently two desktop options featuring NPU, AMD’s Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G. We built with the latter, the 6-core part. Technically, this is the first time we have been able to build a...
