Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED Copilot+ PC

A strong debut for both Copilot+ PCs and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip for Windows

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE £1,083 (£1,300 inc VAT) from uk.store.asus.com Microsoft decided not to deliver Windows 12 this year, but arguably it’s offering something even better: Copilot+ PCs. These still run Windows 11, but as the name alludes to they’re capable of running Microsoft’s Copilot AI directly on the silicon. To be precise, that means neural processing units (NPUs) that are capable of handling 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS). Otherwise known as one heck of a lot. Right now, Qualcomm is the only manufacturer shipping a processor – technically we should call it a system on chip, or SoC, but there are quite enough TLAs to deal with so let’s not be pedantic – capable of 40 TOPS. In fact, it has four such chips available to manufacturers, all of which are rated at…

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