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Beware, this laptop battery life will leave you stranded

Acer’s new Copilot+ laptop shows Intel is taking strides to catch up to Apple’s chips, but it gives you far less time than advertised to use it.

It’s difficult to put a finger on the exact moment Intel lost the plot, putting it onto a path that its previous chief executive once described as a “death march”.

It might have been as recently as 2017, when the chipmaker declined an offer to invest in OpenAI that might have led to large language models being created on Intel graphics cards, rather than Nvidia cards.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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