Intel's answer to Snapdragon PCs

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This week at IFA in Berlin Intel launched Lunar Lake, their new laptop chip series for thin-and-light machines designed for efficiency and to take on the Snapdragon threat. I go hands-on to see if they can deliver.

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Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner

[TheFridayCheckout]

Your eyes aren't deceiving you, it's a Friday Checkout that's not on a Friday!

This is an experiment of a special episode. My thinking is that often something newsworthy happens that's not quite at the depth of a TechAltar video, but might deserve a video of its own. Soooo something like this. What do you think about this format?

[chefnyc]

"Nothing messes up your Friday like realizing it's only Wednesday"

[N....]

Turns out competition is good, actually

[ArvinrajApplasamy]

Nevermind lunarlake, I nearly had a heart attack, I thought I missed my doctor's appointment scheduled on Friday morning.

[jorns]

Lets take the day off tomorrow, it's Friday!

[ksdme]

If Lunar Lake delivers it certainly has an easier winning path because Qualcomm X is an ARM chip so it has to run x86 programs under emulated mode which introduces a penalty and in some cases underdelivers on the performance gains.

[DeusEx.Machina]

There better be another one on Friday.
Don’t mess with my routine bro.

[SK-vwin]

3:56 I remembered the harris meme here just to realize that it's included in the video 5 seconds later 😂

[taddwii]

I love the Kamala clip you put in there, LOL.

[Winnetou]

It wasn't Qualcomm which lit up the efficiency fire under Intel's bu^^. Because you can't answer to something like that in a couple of months. It was Apple, 4 years ago when they launched M1 which lit up the efficiency fire. That's how long architecting, designing and manufacturing a chip takes. And it can take even more than 4 years.

I'm baffled about this "launch". Apparently actual reviews come only on 24th of September ? This seems to have been only a pre-launch hands on. Now wainting for another 3 weeks will be a bit painful. But I am excited about Lunar Lake, I really hope Intel didn't screw this one.

I was mostly alone in battling people which were touting "hurr ArM iS sO mUcH mOrE eFfIcIeNt tHaN x86. durrr die x86" and I tried to explain that Apple's M efficiency comes from more sources, not ARM alone. Two of the major ones was memory directly on chip and better manufacturing node. Now Intel did both with Lunar Lake. Once the drivers for Linux are matured, we'll be able to see a proper ARM vs x86 comparison that's more apples to apples (pun unintended).

[AgentZeroNine]

I hope not too many people bought those Windows on ARM devices lol.

[shApYT]

Thank you Apple for starting the competition. Also just because the ram is on package doesn't mean we cant have supplementary CAMM ram like different levels of cpu cache.

[rogehmarbi]

I'm quite excited honestly. Yes, we need to take first party demos with a mountain of himalayan salt, but even with the skepticism glasses on, this does look like quite a leap from what we have today. Especially in such a short time..

I'm still running an 8th gen Thinkpad, and I'm quite glad that my next upgrade is going to be a massive one..

[vjay]

No.. Don't do it again.. How am i going to live next two days working.. you gave me hope that it's weekend..

[study-career]

No you can't just upload on Wednesday.

[__aceofspades]

Lunar Lake is looking to be the biggest improvement for windows laptops ever. It's basically akin to when Apple made their M1 chip, except Lunar Lake is M3 performance, except with Intel since they arent changing overall architecture, there is no software issues like we see with Snapdragon and we briefly saw with the M1. Lunar Lake is a game changer, and surprisingly AMD is now behind in efficiency and iGPU performance.

[CODMx]

At the beginning I thought he was gonna say "welcome to the Friday checkout" 😂

[mr_c.i.c]

This channel is equal to my calendar, I almost had a heart attack thinking it's already Friday.

[test-wssg]

I really checked day on the status bar😂

[RobloxianX]

Seems like a good replacement for the i7-1370/i5-1360P chips, but the new H and HX chips better not be running on Raptor Lake