WATCH Before You Buy a New Laptop! [Intel Core Ultra Series 2 HANDS-ON]

First Look at Intel Core Ultra Series 2 (aka Lunar Lake). Boasting better performance, battery & AI vs AMD and Snapdragon rivals - should buy a new Intel laptop?

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[Thetechchap]

Hey Chaps! Would you buy a Lunar Lake laptop??

[mikelay]

Man I hope these numbers are proven to be right because consumers totally need the competition.

[tylerkidby]

This is exactly what the market needs, strong competition to keep them constantly innovating.

[Gustavo_St]

One of the Intel laptops was a Zenbook S 16, so Asus will again ship both AMD and Intel versions, which will allow a perfect comparison between the two. Can’t wait to see that.

[akin]

From what I noticed; the CPU performance is barely above Intel 13th gen P series CPUs. However, the battery life and iGPU performance were massive jumps in performance. Keep in mind, Lunar Lake is for laptops. Not for desktops.

[SaschaBB]

Funny that snapdragon needed to come into the ring to push intel and amd further

[Reaper]

Glad to see that there's going to be true competition for AMDs Ryzen AI chips for those of us who don't want to jump ship to ARM. It really has been an exciting year for laptops. I just bought my first ever AMD laptop recently after using Intel exclusively for the past 15 years, but really glad to see Intel is keeping up and will be an option again in the future.

[See.You.Soon.]

I love how ARM revolutionized the efficiency and battery life and now every company has to follow/compete. WIN WIN situation for us consumers!

[babatundeoshodi]

I am loving the competition between these companies as years goes on. Every company want to offer their very best as they are in competition with other companies and also themselves by making better iterations of previous chips.

Although I am going to give the edge to Intel right now with their integrated RAM. That will help a lot with efficiency and integration. Performance will be a lot better and seamless.

[billymania]

I just payed off my Surface Pro 9 (1255U w/16 GB). It's a sweet little machine. I'm getting a taste of the newer thin and light machines that are hitting the market. I'm fully in the X86 camp because of my profession and so I care a lot about what Intel does. So far, things are looking really good for my particular niche.

[zircoben]

Just looking forward to having a new work laptop that: 1) lasts longer than 1.5 hours unplugged, and 2) doesn't have constant fan noise in the background!

[J.Wick.]

Oh snap....This is gonna make ALOT of things really interesting for the thin/light crowd as well as handheld crowd. Good. More competition is needed, and looks to be on it's way. Consumers win with competition. AMD has been ruling it for 5-6 years now in the laptop space.

[SjonnieVDKist]

good video! the only thing i don't agree with is at 8:12 where you mention having an NPU right now is for future proofing. i'd reckon that by the time we do get usefull software for it and everyday apps get use out of it these NPU's. the current ones will be outdated and not up to spec. especially since the performance increases we are seeing year over year. anyway video is a thumbs up for me as always!

[leakyabstraction]

Dell XPS still doesn't have a function key row 😂 When will they learn

[RobloxianX]

The Dell XPS 13 becoming a possible gaming laptop is insane

[zzzamboni]

Great review! The only thing is at 4:47 you are saying "Fastest processor", which is incorrect. Intel claims the fastest single-core performance (see 1T/1-copy on the chart) and not overall CPU performance. Lunar Lake won't have the best multi-core performance, it's not designed to deliver it.

[ContraVsGigi]

Man, is those numbers are even close to reality, we have a winner. Too bad my laptop is only 2 years old, I cannot change it yet. Even the onboard graphics seem to be on par with AMD which is great. On the other hand, I would wait for this technology to mature and see Intel 20a and 18a in play (this SoC is still made by TSMC, but the next gen will be built by Intel as they are almost production ready on that much better node).

[Techsnowball]

2:18 i had to rewind that like 3 times just to make sure i wasn't hearing things

[JesseProwisor]

thanks for quick report - exciting to see the progress!!!

[chanm]

If those numbers are real, Intel needs to get machines with these chips into the hands of reviewers ASAP. _This_ is the performance leading Intel I remember. Not the losing half our share value and firing 15% of our staff Intel that we've been dealing with so far this year.

edit: Re. the point you made about all the NPU numbers being for "future proofing", how much do you think it's actually going to matter though? All the most performant AI models are currently proprietary, and the most performant _open source_ models require hundreds of GBs of ram to load. It's not (or at least not only) the TOPs that are the bottleneck here, and as you say, _these_ thin and lights are never going to have more than 32GB of ram. Sure, there are smaller models made to run locally, but in 2 or 3 years are people even going to be interested in running those models?