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I miss the days when AI meant "futuristic gibberish."

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As usual, Apple stans think Apple invented some new revolutionary innovative device... When Sony, Samsung, and Motorola already had smart watches on the market...

As usual, Apple stans think Apple invented some new revolutionary innovative device... When Sony, Samsung, and Motorola already had smart watches on the market...

Often, first to invent trails first to market a product successfully in terms of popularity and profit.  A lot of the inventions where I worked were borrowed or bought, but they weren't marketed as well.  I used to have a nonApple SW that was "fine", I was gifted an Apple SW which also is fine.  Apple has cache the others lacked.

That may be changing now.  Apple was on the ropes a few years back when Jobs returned.  He got them doing new stuff again.

It's interesting how terms like a "Xerox" or a "Kleenex" or an "Aspirin" are actually brand names that came to mean a certain general kind of product, Coke as well in the South.  Now "iPad" is likely a term like that even if it refers to a Sony.

Ok nerds, time to earn your keep around here. 

I need a new laptop and processors have moved on 8 different times since the last time I did any research about them, so I'm looking for some quick help. 

Dell website says I can get one with an Intel Core i7-1355U for $400

Or a AMD Ryzen 7 7730U for just $279.99

Or a Intel Core Ultra 9 288V for $750

Of course there's lot of other options that factor into the price, and there's also lots more options.  I'm just throwing out a bit of a range with some different processors that appear frequently.

I feel like I don't need anything too powerful because hopefully in the next year I'm going to build a Ferrari-level desktop, and for the most part I don't do a ton on my home laptop other than basic office work and web surfing.  But I do like to mess with Python and R programming, and I need something that will neatly handle the basic ML algorithms (which, actually, shouldn't be too taxing, my very old laptop handles this just fine.....I don't really need to do any deep learning, neural networks, that kind of thing).  In other words, I can probably get by with something that's "fine," I just don't want "lame." 

Any quick, basic info in layman's terms on any of these processors would be appreciated.  Since I may later build a desktop, I'm inclined to go as cheap as possible here, but since I will use this machine for years to come one way or another, and may need to do at least a few non-Chromebook tasks on it, I don't want something that completely lacks horsepower. 

It's interesting how terms like a "Xerox" or a "Kleenex" or an "Aspirin" are actually brand names that came to mean a certain general kind of product, Coke as well in the South.  Now "iPad" is likely a term like that even if it refers to a Sony.

Toward the end of my marketing degree 1500 years ago, I had to do a research case study on Kleenex.  It was a very intentional thing on their part, for tissues to be commonly referred to as Kleenex.  They spent a lot of money on marketing that and maneuvering public perception/language.  

I think you're right about iPads.  Most people are non-techy, and non-techy people I know tend to call their tablets iPads, no matter what brand they actually are.  Although they're usually actually iPads.