Windows 11 24H2’s leaked requirements suggest AI Explorer is limited to ARM PCs
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You’ll need an ARM64 processor like the Snapdragon X Elite with NPU, 225GB of storage (SSD), and up to 16GB of RAM to use Windows 11 version 24H2’s highly anticipated “AI Explorer”.
Something else to avoid upgrading
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You’ll need an ARM64 processor like the Snapdragon X Elite with NPU, 225GB of storage (SSD), and up to 16GB of RAM to use Windows 11 version 24H2’s highly anticipated “AI Explorer”.
Something else to avoid upgrading
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You’ll need an ARM64 processor like the Snapdragon X Elite with NPU, 225GB of storage (SSD), and up to 16GB of RAM to use Windows 11 version 24H2’s highly anticipated “AI Explorer”.
Something else to avoid upgrading
If this can provoke the makers of mainboards to produce a selection of ARM64 based cards with the same flexibility and expandability as the x64 boards (preferably using the same RAM, display cards, power supplies etc. etc. as their x64 counterparts), I think that would be a mark of progress. I suspect the day is getting closer. At the time, I am not considering upgrading my desktop PC. My 2015 vintage x64 machine serves me well while I am waiting, but I am impatient. I'd like to play around with an ARM64, both at the instruction level and to see how well it fares with a complex OS on top. MS has worked closely with Intel to make sure OS and CPU matches(*) - I do not know if there has been a similarly close cooperation MS / ARM. At least the cooperation is not by far as long-lasting. (*) Such as Raymond Chen's story about when Intel asked MS developers what would be their highest priority speedup, and the answer was 'The illegal instruction interrupt handling'. They had found that executing an illegal instruction was the fastest way to switch from user mode to privileged mode, and they wanted it to be even faster.
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