Let's be clear: Perplexity's latest "Personal Computer" is not a physical device. It's a high-tier software subscription priced around $200 per month that gives you a dedicated, always-on research and agentic workflow layer — basically a premium AI operating environment inside your browser.
Deeper context windows, priority compute, persistent agents, advanced search. It's marketed like it's the second coming of the PC, but for most people already in the coding and agent space it feels noticeably overpriced relative to what Codex, Cursor, and the open ecosystem are delivering right now.
It's a power-user research tool, not a revolution. The branding is doing a lot of heavy lifting.