Intel Finally Nailed It

Intel Meteor Lake laptops with the Core Ultra processors have what it takes for the best battery life along with some impressive performance in the thin and light or ultrabook markets. Especially in gaming. But that doesn't mean Meteor Lake is perfect since it does have some early generation flaws.

0:00 - Meteor Lake Good & Bad
0:56 - INSANE Battery Life
2:21 - Meteor Lake vs Raptor Lake Refresh
3:09 - Core Ultra U-Series...WHY?
4:26 - Sponsor Spot
4:57 - Core Ultra H-Series Explained
5:46 - PCIe Gen5, Wifi 7 & More
7:05 - Zenbook 14 Specs & Price
7:49 - Zenbook 14 Performance Oddities
10:04 - Real World Performance Benchmarks
11:10 - ARC GPU Confusion
12:41 - Gaming Performance is IMPRESSIVE
13:31 - Meteor Lake is GOOD...Except
14:43 - Ryzen 8000 vs Meteor Lake

Review unit provided free of charge by ASUS as a loaner unit. This video is sponsored by be quiet!. As per Hardware Canucks guidelines, no review direction was received from manufacturer. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

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[ErisAlter]

Awesome to see Intel enforcing dual-channel memory for the Arc certification! Makes it way easier for the consumer to tell they'll get max iGPU performance

[RobloxianX]

These new iGPUS make it actually sensible to go without a GPU on a laptop. I really hope we get this iGPU performance on the 15th gen desktop chips. I still see people using i9-7900X's and 1080Ti's that say they will upgrade when Intel 15th Gen and RTX 5000 series come out. Props to them for the longevity.

[sijedevos]

This naming scheme makes my brain hurt

[El.Duder-ino]

Intel made a right step in right direction and most importantly achieved all of that with in house chip packaging made out of chiplets/tiles also from the TSMC which is pretty cool. I think this in house chiplets/tiles packaging deserves also a lot of credit as Intel is on to something probably even more advanced, than AMD. I wonder what Apple will do with their M chips eventually when they will need to cut them in chiplets as well.

[bruderkraut]

wouldn't it be smart to normalize battery life per Wh of battery, when the devices have so very different battery specs? I mean, for example in the heavy load test (2:19) The Zenbook 14 (1) has 1.77 min/Wh, wheras the Zenbook 13 (2) has 1.76 min/Wh of battery life. So basically identical ?

[Lollllllz]

while im happy that intel now has something competitive to keep AMD in check im a bit concerned about performance consistency being all over the place i hope that the fix it within the generation and not gatekeep it to later generation like apo and 12/13th gen.

[arsicpedja]

Intel put out bios update that solves inconsistency with performance. Mathew Monitz made a video about it. Huge difference.

[killthrash]

This lineup is really smart on Intel's part. It allows them to bin their CPU's and have a wider margin for error on their manufacturing. Instead of trying to shoe-horn production into just a couple SKU's, they take a broad range of manufacturing "defects" and bin them to whatever performance lines up with the SKU, being slightly conservative. The silicone lottery is alive and well.

[DoctorShaunB]

Looks sick! That Titan on your monitor in the background is trying to get it's hands on that laptop.

[Superfly]

Mike, this was a great and thorough look at Meteor Lake in the wild.

Looking forward to what you bring next - Kudos!

[MrHavk]

I want to see a couple months of reviews and driver improvements, but I'm really excited to see where Meteor Lake can end up. So much new stuff here. Give it time....

Thank you!

[__aceofspades]

Great overall video. Really excited to see Meteor Lake in more laptops with the better 165H chip

[ChinchillaBONK]

Nailed it into a coffin?
What's the RAM speed of your test unit?

[danabell]

"The best is yet to come" has been Arc's motto since it came out. Remember how bad the Arc cards ran on release? Yeah, they're a lot better now.

[akrav]

Great to see Intel finally innovating, but in terms of igpu they are matching AMD not overcoming it. And yeah 16 gigs of ram in dual channel is a must, considering some smartphones have 12 to 16 gigs olready.

[just_matt]

A proposed solution to the Intel CPU gaming scheme: For desktop parts, instead of having the "i" before i3, i5, etc., have "d" for desktop. For laptops, have "m" for mobile. The rest of their naming scheme can stay the same. For example, the Intel m5 15600K and Intel d5 15600k. That would make things really easy for consumers. I may be overlooking a factor, but it shouldn't be that difficult.

[recordedanemone]

Damn, i bought a 14x recently. That was a BAD decision

[lukeworden]

Great video! Are you guys going to review the new Dell XPS 14 with Meteor Lake?

[playheartgaming]

This is amazing. AMD needs competition else it might pull an intel on us

[weltenleser]

Interesting that Intel managed to make their line-up naming scheme even more confusing, it's a feat considering that it was already confusing