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Microsoft’s Copilot+ gaming fail could be a big Apple Silicon win

Microsoft’s push into AI-centric notebooks isn’t great for gamers, as they can’t play most of their games on the ARM-based chips inside the latest Copilot+ PCs. This is a problem that will be beneficial to Apple Silicon gaming.

A sleek, open laptop with a colorful abstract pattern displayed on its screen, set against a gradient blue background.
Microsoft Surface Laptop Copilot+

In May, Microsoft launched a collection of Windows PCs it dubbed “Copilot+ PC.” While largely an update to Microsoft’s popular Surface line, it also represented a big shift in strategy to lean more on artificial intelligence and generative AI.

The change resulted in Microsoft entering the same sort of territory that Apple has occupied for a few years now, and that Microsoft had previously dabbled with. Rather than making a few models running on ARM-based chips and some on Intel variants, Microsoft instead decided to go fully ARM for 2024.

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