AI-Powered PCs Are More Powerful Than You Think

Yes, AI is a powerful tool. Despite the contrary belief that AI will replace humans, it actually helps humans in various ways. One of the best ways I notice is that AI can automate mundane tasks, allowing individuals to focus on more creative and strategic endeavours.

As technology continues to evolve, the collaboration between humans and AI is likely to foster innovation and efficiency, rather than competition. I visited the Intel® AI PC Experience: Turbocharging Creativity and Content Creation event last Tuesday (6^th May 2025) to see how much AI has changed in the computing department, and I have to say: I am genuinely impressed.

This event from Intel® highlights all the improvements that we (as content creators) can benefit from when using AI-powered PCs. I personally have used one of them myself when Lenovo sent me one of their products. It’s a really good laptop for everyday work use.

Regardless, here are some of the essentials you would benefit from when using AI-powered PCs.

The Battery Lasts Super Long with AI-powered PCs

AI-powered PCs enhance battery life, a LOT. Generally, a laptop consumes quite a large amount of power when launching certain applications, e.g., Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Audacity, etc. It is rather noticeable, with gaming laptops, especially, that the battery drains insanely quickly.

AI helps to mitigate this issue by optimising power consumption through intelligent resource management. These systems analyse user behaviour and application usage patterns to allocate resources efficiently, reducing unnecessary energy drain.

AI can dynamically adjust settings such as screen brightness and CPU performance based on real-time needs, ensuring that power is conserved when full performance is not required. AI is also capable of predicting usage trends, and therefore suggests power-saving modes and manages background processes. This helps in extending the overall battery life of the device.

I can attest to this, if I have to say so myself. The laptop Lenovo sent me lasted considerably longer than I thought it could’ve lasted. I spent time working on editing a 2-hour video overnight, including rendering and exporting the video. The next morning, the laptop still had enough juice to run for the day. Had I used my gaming laptop for the same amount of work, I probably would’ve needed to plug it in 2 hours in.

So yes, I am genuinely surprised to see how good the technology has become.

A Large Number of AI-Ready Software Is Out for These PCs

There are a number of applications out there that are ready for AI-made PCs (Adobe applications, especially) that revolve around productivity and work. I can list down some of them below, but there’s more where that came from:

Developers have optimised their software to enhance user experience on the new generation of PCs, focusing on productivity, collaboration, creativity, content creation, security, and manageability.

For journalists/writers/simple content creators like me, I rely on some of the software. Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop are some of the applications I use to create and publish content for my audience, and I do find it useful to have AI helping to streamline the task to make it more efficient and time-saving for me.

I want to talk about Premiere Pro, specifically, since I have personally spent a LOT of time there, and how Premiere Pro benefits me plenty from integrating AI into its application.

Premiere Pro with AI: Time-saving, Less Headache

At the Intel® AI PC Experience: Turbocharging Creativity and Content Creation event, there were a few unique features found in the latest version of Premiere Pro that I, alongside anyone who has Premiere Pro installed on their PCs, can benefit from. One of them is the auto reframe sequence feature. Goodness, this feature saves me a lot of time. Really.

The auto reframe sequence feature in Adobe Premiere Pro automatically adjusts the aspect ratio of your video content to fit different social media platforms. So let’s say you record the footage in landscape (16:9 ratio), it crops your footage to 9:16 automatically if you were to edit it to post on TikTok/Instagram Reels.

Oh, and get this: the auto reframe sequence feature also uses AI technology to analyse the footage and intelligently repositions the main subjects within the frame, ensuring they remain in focus as the video is cropped. This is particularly useful for creators who want to repurpose their content for various formats. It’s a one-click feature: AI will handle the rest. The keyframes are there afterwards, so you can, of course, still edit them after. It’s there to ease your work.

That’s one of the features on Premiere Pro that AI-powered PCs (and regular ones) can benefit from. There is also a feature called colour grading by AI. Yes, Adobe Premiere Pro has integrated AI-driven tools that simplify and elevate the colour grading process. So what would take you hours to adjust the colours and tone in your video clips could be done in minutes. For journalists who just want to publish fast-paced content, this is definitely one of the best features they can use, hands down.

Premiere Pro also offers scene edit detection and colour match, which respectively identify cuts in a video, and matches the colour palette of different clips (so that they remain consistent throughout the entire sequence).

Believe me, it’s a game-changer. It’s not replacing us as journalists, or content creators, or writers per se. It’s a tool that helps to reduce the workload so we can ensure that our work is delivered on time, and that we reduce the mental fatigue that can also contribute to human errors in content creation work.

AI: All about Efficiency and Speed

Okay, this is something I want to highlight as well. We’ve heard of computers having CPUs (Central Processing Unit) and GPUs (Graphical Processing Unit) as parts of the components of a processor.

With AI-powered PCs, there is another component: the NPUs (Neural Processing Unit).

An NPU differs from a CPU primarily in its design and purpose. While a CPU is designed for general-purpose computing tasks and can handle a wide variety of operations, an NPU is specifically optimised for processing neural networks and machine learning algorithms.

NPUs excel in parallel processing, allowing them to perform multiple calculations simultaneously, which is essential for tasks like image recognition and natural language processing. CPUs, on the other hand, are better suited for tasks requiring sequential processing and complex decision-making.

Also, NPUs often have specialised architectures that enable them to handle large amounts of data with lower power consumption compared to CPUs. Think of NPUs like a brain used for behavioural pattern recognition: it’s best used for repetitive tasks done by users themselves, and adjusts their PCs accordingly.

Once the NPUs help in adapting the PCs in recognising the pattern, they ensure that tasks are completed faster and with less energy consumption. This leads to improved productivity and a smoother user experience.

So this is what I meant by using AI as a tool for improvements, not as replacements. They are not meant to replace us; they are there to help us. The integration of AI technology in PCs not only boosts efficiency but also transforms how users interact with their devices.

Of course, this is far from getting the optimisation we’d get from Apple devices. Still, getting AI to help with optimisation, alongside all the productivity applications, works wonders in getting that next step for a big change in technology.

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