The new Microsoft Copilot+ AI laptops – all built around Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X-Series processors – are sleek and light, snappy and responsive. And they run for a really long time between charges.

Could they be the MacBook Air for Windows systems that the ecosystem has been craving? Read my take in MarketWatch!

Apple’s overdue answer to generative AI finally came this week in the form of Apple Intelligence, an elegantly packaged collection of features that will come to new iPhones in the fall. Is it a me-too offering? Or something special?

Actually, the answer is yes. To both questions. Read my take in my latest MarketWatch column.

Yes, Intel has more than enough performance from the super-efficient AI processor inside its new PC offering, codenamed Lunar Lake. The built-in graphics accelerator also has plenty of TOPS, the industry metric for AI performance.

Add a few more TOPS from the main processor complex, and the company says Lunar Lake is better equipped than any other AI PC offering for whatever AI tasks developers throw at it.

Here’s my take on Intel’s presence and relative positioning from Computex, the big PC trade show held in Taiwan each year. Read on!

For his first-ever keynote at Computex, the big PC show held each June in Taipei, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon brought reinforcements: a parade of executives from seven laptop makers. The OEMs launched a combined 22 laptops built around Microsoft’s Copilot+, the first-ever on-device AI platform on PCs.

And for the next few months at least, the only Copilot+ laptops will be based on Snapdragon X-Series processors. Which helps explain why partner Pavan Davuluri, head of Windows at Microsoft, was also there to support the launches.

Davuluri wasn’t in Taipei just to support the new Windows AI platform. A couple of those 22 X-Series laptops are his: Surface Pro 11th Edition and Surface Laptop 7th Edition.

I was also there! Here’s my take – straight from Taipei.