Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
lime@feddit.nu 14 hours agovista was great on compliant hardware. w11 is very much not.
Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades
lime@feddit.nu 14 hours agovista was great on compliant hardware. w11 is very much not.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Right, but that’s just it, they’re basically pulling another Vista if they release Windows 12 later this year.
As the article reasonably posits, it’s way more likely that they’ll just degrade the experience for people without NPUs, which in other words means decreased performance on older hardware, a la Vista on non-compliant hardware.
lime@feddit.nu 14 hours ago
whoof. i still don’t understand what makes an npu different from a vector coprocessor (except the proprietary api) so if they’re smart about it they’ll fall back to gpu use. they will not be smart about it.