Microsoft’s great expectations may lead it into hard times

Tim Danton

You may not realise that Charles Dickens wasn’t merely a prolific novelist, journalist and short story writer, but also a keen reader of PC Pro. And a time traveller. When he wrote “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, he was referring to the incredible slew of AI-enabled laptops that would launch in the summer of 2024, knowing the lost weekends and evenings it would cause me in my desperate attempt to review them all. Although I’m still not entirely happy about his depiction of me in A Christmas Carol. This particular issue is a tale of two CPU architectures, with AMD the hero for x86 with its all-new Ryzen AI 300 series. I give my largely positive verdict on this launch from p48, and if…

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