The price of Nvidia RTX Spark PCs is going to hurt
How much will you pay to be on the frontlines of an agentic AI world? I’ve wondered this since Sunday night, when Nvidia unveiled its first-ever consumer processor for PCs at Computex 2026. …
How much will you pay to be on the frontlines of an agentic AI world? I’ve wondered this since Sunday night, when Nvidia unveiled its first-ever consumer processor for PCs at Computex 2026. …
… Turn off Windows Studio Effects Copilot+ PCs have a feature called Windows Studio Effects, which is also available on some earlier AI PCs. …
… This YouTube comment from user @vr0k3n sums up the vibe pretty well: “Referring to anything consumer related when presenting these clearly AI B2B products is complete deception….the only reason they did that was to frame these as a consumer product so people would still be interested in it when it … …
… With local AI running on an RTX PC, you get support for the most cutting-edge AI models and features, helping you to take advantage of the latest AI today, and get ready for what’s coming tomorrow. …
… Other handheld gaming PCs are being curtailed or even cancelled due to dwindling component supplies and high prices. …
… Google's new freely downloadable Google app for desktop available today on PCs using English may remind you of the latest iteration of the 20-year-old macOS "Spotlight" app, which is both a file manager, an app launcher, and a sophisticated search tool. …
… On a PC, AI can monopolize system resources, preventing any other work from being done. This can sometimes force a user to buy a dedicated AI PC. It's a simple productivity solution, allowing either larger AI models to be run on a PC or freeing up a laptop for other tasks. …
… They spread uncertainty throughout the PC industry, with no one knowing how they would shake out. Much less if they would be ruled as legal. For us enthusiasts, we wondered if their implementation would kill off parts of the PC industry. …
… Likewise, the AI pendulum is beginning to swing back, away from GPUs and back to CPUs, as control of agentic AI becomes important. "One statistic we look at is the ratio of CPUs to GPUs," Zinsner said. "If you look at training solutions, they are generally running seven to eight GPUs to one CPU. …
… "An Agent Computer is a new category of device built to run your AI agents full-time," AMD said in a blog post. "It can sit in your home or office, always on, always available, always working." AMD goes on: "You do not operate it like a PC. …