5 reasons why you need an AI-ready laptop in your life

Sep 09, 2024

Unless you’ve been living off-grid, you will likely have heard about AI technology and experimented with online AI apps like ChatGPT. But even though these are fun when you need images for a wizardry-inspired recipe book, helpful when struggling to plan a party, and a godsend when summarising long documents, having a laptop with AI features built-in allows for far more game-changing possibilities. This article explains what defines an AI-ready computer and lists five reasons our ASUS AI-ready laptops will transform how you work and create.

It won't come as a surprise that AI requires considerable computing power. Even a relatively simple prompt involves processing a large amount of data and the risk of slowing the system down. Consequently, an AI-ready laptop needs the latest and greatest in processors, graphics cards, memory, and storage because it should also be able to do its job without relying on the servers of Microsoft, Google, or OpenAI.

ASUS AI-ready laptops are equipped with the most advanced hardware, specifically designed to handle AI tasks. This includes a Neural Processing Unit (NPU)—an AI-focused chip that mimics the human brain with layers of interconnected artificial nerve cells to transmit and process information. Integrated into the laptop’s architecture, it allows for faster and more efficient AI processing, ensuring it will deliver the benefits we're listing next.

Imagine a world where your laptop takes the automatically generated transcript of a meeting, highlights the key points, and works all important topics into a baseline slide deck, ready to be fine-tuned for the next meeting. All before your coffee gets cold.

This is just one of the many time-saving scenarios made possible by Microsoft Copilot, the AI assistant integrated into the Microsoft 365 suite of office applications. Activated via a dedicated key on the ASUS laptop keyboard, it's always ready to boost your workflow and provide contextually relevant support.

Forget about your fear of formulas and have Copilot sift through large amounts of data in Excel to create complex charts. Let it suggest different phrasings in Word, cutting the time spent on editing. Ask it to help organise your emails in Outlook and declutter your inbox. Or use it to work across apps, creating a spreadsheet from data in an email, a PowerPoint presentation from information in Word, or a OneNote summary from a recording in Teams.

Microsoft Copilot allows you to focus on the essence of your job and leave the mundane tasks to AI. It’s like having that extra pair of hands you’ve often wished for.

Traditionally, computers have been lacking in the context department. They performed tasks without comprehending what they were working with, why they were doing it, and how their actions related to other tasks.

In other words, they couldn't see the bigger picture like we humans can, linking client feedback to updates in a design file or knowing how meeting notes affect calculations in a spreadsheet.

The introduction of AI-ready laptops is about to change this. They come with contextual awareness and decision-making built-in, comprehending the content and intent in one application and applying it appropriately in another.

So, if, for example, you're working on a video file in Adobe Premiere, any revisions you make could also be updated in related apps such as After Effects and Audition. AI makes sure your edits are always in sync with related graphics, effects, and audio files, so you don’t have to keep track of everything.

Like many other people, you’ve probably already tried online AI tools to suggest initial ideas or generate images. However, when you decide on an AI-ready laptop, you'll find it'll do far more than help overcome a creative block or visualise your thoughts.

For one thing, it will significantly improve the speed of your creative workflow, especially when editing photos, rendering videos, or compiling complex game code. This is because AI laptops have an advanced Neural Processing Unit (NPU), allowing them to accelerate multiple tasks without the types of processors and graphics cards found in high-end workstations.

For another, AI automatically manages your laptop's system resources, allocating power where it's needed most. So, instead of running a quick errand while your video is rendering, you may just have time to refill your coffee before the job is done.

Lastly, AI is particularly smart when it comes to tasks like colour correction, object recognition, light adjustments, and noise reduction. Just imagine how much time this will save in post-production, as there’s no need to spend it on manual adjustments and resource-intensive processes.

To summarise, an AI-enhanced laptop will handle more complex tasks faster and more efficiently, leaving you to focus on the creative aspects and the output quality.

Goodbye, boring bits, hello funkier edits!

Multitasking. We humans claim we're rather good at it, but research has shown our brains can't process more than one attention-requiring task at a time. What we actually do is "task-switching" - rapidly shifting our focus from one task to another.

Initially, our computers did the same thing, using their single-core processors to 'jump' between processes as we went from program to program. However, with the introduction of multi-core processors, they became capable of true multitasking, handling several tasks independently without needing to switch contexts.

Integrating AI into a laptop can significantly enhance this capability, increasing the speed with which tasks are completed and reducing the risk of frustrating app crashes. This isn't just down to the powerful AI-ready hardware but also to features such as intelligent task management, which prioritises application resources based on usage patterns and task demands.

So, if you're the type of person who tends to have 31 browser tabs open while you edit images in Photoshop (no judgement here), update webpages in WordPress, create a slide deck in PowerPoint, catch up on emails in Outlook, and listen to the “productive morning” playlist on Spotify, an AI-enhanced laptop could very well be the multitasking companion you need.

Although it may be advantageous, working with AI has also led to more discussions about how to keep data secure. This is mainly because the AI systems we already use today are mostly cloud-based, meaning that they need external computers to run.

Understandably, this leads to people and businesses becoming data anxious, worrying about what will happen when their information is transmitted and stored to AI applications. So much so that companies have been discouraging employees and suppliers from using AI to avoid leaking sensitive information.

AI-ready laptops can change this, as they have the processing power to run AI models directly on the machine without needing to connect to the cloud. Consequently, they help you speed up your workflow, even with quarterly results under embargo or personal notes that must be kept private.

Well, there you have it—a list of five reasons why you need an ASUS AI-ready laptop in your life. We think you'll agree it makes a strong case for harnessing the power of AI and leaving those humdrum, repetitive, tiring, and time-consuming tasks to your new tenacious digital assistant.

Ready to speed up your workflow and free your mind of tedious to-do’s? Discover our new range of ASUS AI-ready laptops.