PCSpecialist 14 Lafité AI AMD

No frills and a terrible webcam, but this is one of the most affordable AI laptops around

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE £624 (£749 inc VAT) from pcspecialist.co.uk/reviews Dell’s Inspiron 14 Plus (see p59) is currently the cheapest Copilot+ PC around, but if that’s still too much and your heart is set on an AI PC, then the PCSpecialist Lafité AI AMD may be the answer. Rather than featuring one of AMD’s new Ryzen AI 300 series chips (see p48), PCSpecialist saves a chunk of cash by opting for last year’s AI hotshot, the Ryzen 8845HS. Its NPU offers 16 TOPS compared to the 55 TOPS of the Ryzen AI 370 HX in the trio of Asus laptops on review this month, which means no Recall or Cocreator built into Windows, but you can take advantage of third-party software enhanced for NPUs. So far, that mainly means videoand photoediting software (think removing background…

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