Honestly, that's pretty quick to learn that lesson. Huge corporations usually take way longer to figure that sort of thing out. Usually not until it's too late.

WTF even is an "AI PC"? I saw an ad for some AI laptop. To my knowledge, nobody is running LLMs on their personal hardware, so do these computers have like...a web browser?

“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it — but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” admits Kevin Terwilliger, Dell’s head of product, in the PC Gamer interview. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome.”

They're just going to try to market it a little differently

Whoever is making the decisions at Dell just made a very wise one. I’d expect IBM to be the most pragmatic but maybe I missed the news about them

I care about AI PCs in that I actively do not want one. It's not that I'm indifferent.

I'm looking for an android smart watch and I'm annoyed at how many come with interactive AI, which I also do not want.

I don't necessarily hate AI, but I'll use it when I want to use it not when my system wants me to use it.

I like ai. For real. When I want to go there and use it. I open the browser, type to Gemini and use it. Hate it when it is all over everything, especially where you don't need an AI. Glad they got it 

The last time my wife bought a Dell PC, she became an Apple customer. She wanted to avoid the Apple tax but ended up dealing with bloatware, crashes, a slow PC and their horrible customer service.

Its not that I don't care, its that they are too expensive & the monopolies want to exert control over the market. I considered buying a Ryzen AI Max+ 395. They actually had some okay deals for a bit, but they are still pretty inferior to GPU-accelerated solutions which are completely overpriced. Much of this was intentional, although RAM has recently seen more demand than supply. For a long time though, they were restricting the hardware & VRAM in GPUs though not because of price, but because it would take away from much of the dominance cloud-AI providers had, and also do so at the peril of them no longer being able to read & spy on your every conversation.

That is why IMO the US will lose the AI-race. Not because we don't have smart people, but because capitalism is anti-innovation.

well ig DELL is joining the corporation pack that dislikes
AI or criticize it:
IIRC: its Valve and Dreamworks that do it
and now its DELL with both

We don't care about dell anymore either. They have reduced the quality and standardization of their offerings to the point they are worse than just about any other 'brand'.