The Biggest Moment For Laptops Since Apple’s M1 

How did Intel manage to make the naming less clear than before?

its amazing we've got to the point where AMD and Intel are trading blows with apple when it comes to efficiency, this was almost unimaginable 3 years ago. thanks apple for raising the bar

You can't tell this story without discussing legacy software and x86. There is a massive userbase that still wants native x86 support and are willing to take a performance hit for that legacy support. Apple was able to move away as they control their software stack so tightly but this is huge for the more open ecosystem.

I love how compact your videos are. Other creators would make it a 20 minute video with the same information.

The reason why I liked the m1 Air was cuz it had crazy battery life and unbelievable heat control without having a fan. I never really cared about the extra performance. Thats also probably what the majority wants. If this chip or the very next generation can nail both of them and give us the m1 experience on windows laptops, It would be a dream come true. I've used a lot of windows laptops and no matter what, I can get it to run hot by just using chrome and some very basic apps. M1 macbooks had none of those and stayed cool.

It is crazy that M2 Air has 22Wh less battery than these device but still either on par or beat them in term of efficiency. Hopefully Qualcomm can save Windows laptops for me at least.

Haven't been here in a couple years. Love the new hairstyle and the greying on the sides. It looks sick! Keep growing the mane my man!

Nailed it. They’ve finally caught up after lagging since before Tiger Lake even. The AMD part in this comparison was announced 12 mths ago. Apple M3 hasn’t fully delivered on 3nm so we can expect M4 to be a significant improvement. So next year AMD & Apple (& Qualcomm) will definitely continue making progress. Will Intel keep step or forever be a year or more behind?

Intel just caught up. They should also put the pressure on Windows to optimize the s/w better too. I hope this drives the industry to develop way more efficient chips.

Really happy to see Intel making things at least near the level of Apple and others. Competition is great and I think this will be good for the linux community too.

Congrats on making #30 or something like that on trending. Anything close to the M1 leap is impressive and clearly people have been waiting!

Great video! Wanted to hear thoughts on this asap. You delivered it quickly.

Good job Intel, caught up to the AMD 780M. Even past it in a few cases.

for us colorblind people in the future can you choose more visually distinct colors for graphs? the yellow and light green look the exact same and it makes the graph unreadable.

I remember watching ads on the Asus websits for this prototype back in last summer . Took a while but is finally here

Nice touch dressing for the laptops' colours 😉 also I love the lid design on the smaller one 😍

Dave, I really appreciate the form of your content delivery. Quick and to the point. We get some numbers and concise thoughts. You always leave us with solid takeaways.

I hope we get some handheld focused APUs from intel as well. I want to see them compete in this space as well at 15w and lower

Wow Dave you're looking great! Haven't watched any videos in years but glad to see this

Thank god for this, ima need to get a laptop for college and I’m glad there’s now ones with good battery life

I really hope we get something that's last gen performance, but fanless and genuinely super efficient

What this tells me is that Intel was well and truly behind when the M1 and Ryzen chips started taking off a few years ago. Thus, the reason why it only seems like they “caught up” now was because they had to fundamentally redesign their products. I know you might not be “impressed,” but this is a move that truly keeps Intel-based products viable for the coming years, and hopefully that means they stay in business and keep offering competition to drive costs down.

Nicely put. Just caught up.. love your short & precise reviews

Really miss your budget laptop videos, Dave. Looking forward to a back to school video - especially in the $500-$800 range for students

Competition is good 🤌🏾 AMD pushing past 8 cores in a monolithic design next year, Intel iGPU and battery life no longer sucks, Apple kinda sorta basically caring a smudge more about games

Maybe Apple Silicon coming first in this league made it more impressive. But considering Apple had mobile chips to work with while Intel had to do a significant shift to change, I feel like this release coming so soon is still super impressive. Catching up to M2 is really cool and evens the playing field once again so consumers get more choice. I'm all for it :D

Looking forward to what the future brings with these power efficient chips

dude no way you have long hair now?! It's been a while since iv seen your videos. greatvid

That is quite impressive, especially thermals: if you can maintain stable performance on such a high level with this wattage and those temperatures, that means you can easily squeeze a bit more performance from those chips within the same chassis, because they could handle extra heat generated by chips when they are cranked up by few Watts. Will this be necessary for regular ol'Joe? I doubt it. But performance freaks and editors could potentially gain a bit more from those. I'm still on a market for laptop with Ryzen, but it's good to see competition catching up.

Great analysis "they've just caught up". took the words right out of my mouth. I also wondered how they've been doing this for so long just to get smoked by apple's first generation chip. Even though apple has been making great processors for their mobile products, its still extremely impressive with what they were able to do with the M series chips.

Yep, "caught up" makes sense.

Ohh that bass at the intro... 👍🔥

To me it pretty much is a Ryzen 7040 series alternative. Couple that with Intel's generally good stock on shelves and not having to spend the extra cash for the dGPU (which for some reason most Ryzen 7040 seems to be on), it's a solid offering. Although, it really is meh, not much of an upgrade at all, but a necessary one. It really is strange it took Apple, then Ryzen for Intel to realize battery life is important on LAPTOPS.

Looking forwards to getting a Meteor Lake laptop for Christmas. Intel did a great job creating a laptop that is great overall.

I love the battery life comparison!

it's glad to see the plan that catch up TSMC is on schedule.

So happy you reviewed this Asus Thin and Light, I was wondering if it was viable... need to upgrade my wife's laptop eventually and she doesn't have the same power user needs that I do. But she is used to at least enterprise mobile workstation performance. This is way lighter than the Dells she uses, but will allow her to use all the features she is accustomed to.

I thought you will talk about snapdragons arm chips for computers

Great video 👍 Looking forward to getting a laptop with this Intel CPU fire

man I wish they'd update the surface pro line with an oled option, idc about battery mine is plugged in all the time; I just like how it stays cool, the bottom never gets hot. I've never had a laptop that I can use on my lap and not get burned.

I understand only comparing to M2 because that’s what’s available in the MacBook Air. But, given how thick those “thin and light” windows laptops are, it’d be more fair to compare it to the base mode M3 MacBook Pro

IDK about laptops, but the biggest moment for youtube tech is Dave's new hairstyle! You're killing it

The increased iGPU performance is nice. A lot of more premium OEM chassis use Intel instead of AMD, so you can kinda sorta game well and get 780M-level performance on something dinky like a Thinkpad X1 Nano (assuming that Lenovo still commits to that design)

loving the hair. the grey makes me realize how long ive been watching you.

Good work Dave

Dave's drip and hairstyle is on point

I'd love to see what kind of battery life these Core Ultra chips get when using slimmed down versions of Windows such as Tiny11

I was so close to opening up my brand new Surface Pro 9 but I hesitated and kept looking at reviews for laptops. This will be slightly cheaper than a Surface Pro 9 here in Canada. Insane. I'm returning my Surface tomorrow. The Zenbook actually has ports. Also it looks like the only model you can get on the Canadian site right now is the Ultra 5 processor which is strange.

Competitions always good.

"They just caught up" I'd say being comparable to the M2 and also beating their direct competitor in gaming performance on their first outing is pretty impressive. When things are already this good, it definitely is hard to be impressed by the minor improvements. the only way they'd see massive improvements is if they abandoned x86 entirely.

They didn’t jump ahead, they just caught up.

Thanks to you, i am hooked on the Dell XPS 17. Loving it! Much better then my Macbook Pro 16 inch (regarding os support and gaming)

At the time it was really stupendous how Apple made the M1 chips with its groundbreaking leap of battery efficiency meanwhile intel just keeps rebranding there CPUs and actually making them more power hungry(less efficient). I'm curious what AMD's take on this as they've been already working on efficiency while going toe to toe in performance with intel.

I tend to recommend computers based on the person's needs and what they are already familiar with. From experience that's what people are usually seeking and not so much related to power consumption or processing power. Unless you are into gaming or video production. In my time in the industry I also noticed the majority of people use their laptops plugged in. Don't feel discouraged to purchasing an older model cpu especially if you have a tight budget and what you will be using the computer for is just browsing the web, emails etc.

Couldn't l agree more. Thank you for the review.

Omg i havent watched ur vids in yrs the glowup is insane😊

To be honest. Apple's M1 was really a big moment in the Laptop industry .

TL;DW "They've just caught up." -D2D

Great to The video showing the improvements that Intel made, but it would been nice to see the comparison to the latest Apple M3 devices....

And here I was about to purchase a new work laptop this Christmas....

For the battery benchmarks, it was written, yes, but could have talked more about the M2 Air having a 25% smaller battery while having the same battery life. And what including M3 instead of M2 ? Great video nontheless

I literally have been struggling with this recently. My current laptop (hp spectre 15 x360) which i got in 2020 is decently powerful and comparable to a macbook pro in terms of performance but the battery life has been so bad. The equivalent spec of mac lasts about 8 hours but mine barely cracks 3hrs nowadays. ive been browsing around for a something with better battery life with similar performance but it appears that product doesnt exist on the windows side of things. Hopefully this new chip changes things and we get some actual macbook competitors. If not i might have to join the darkside cus i tired of being worried about battery life EVERY DAY

I wish these reviewers would do more than benchmarks which don’t mean anything to consumers. Test the laptop and show us 15 chrome tabs and all Office apps open and then open 2 other random apps and toggle between them quicker - or something, something anything that compares to average consumer use.

Competition is always good. It forces companies like Intel to innovate and not rest on their laurels; as they had done so in the recent past. Good video mate!

Apple M1’s efficiency and performance blew everyone away. This is just Intel finally catching up. Title does not compute.

Intel just catches up, which is not good enough. Need to be 2x better. :shrug:

Haven’t watched you channel in a while, dude you’re bringing back the mullet!

How do these compete with the m3 pro and m3 max chips? Or are they only competing with the older gen base model m2 chips?

So,Intel caught up to AMD?

YES!! I’m so happy to see Intel’s integrated graphics catching up with AMD’s-let alone all the other areas. I hope the two really start to compete in the mobile space to consumers’ benefit.

This is gonna be amazing for the portable handheld space!

Hey Dave. Awesome video as always. Just wanted to suggest something regarding color coded charts. Can they have some kind of markers so that it’s easy for a colorblind person like me to understand. Sometime it becomes a tad bit difficult. Thank you.

having the same battery life and kinda the same performance with a battery that is 20% bigger i wouldn't say they have caught up.... but it is a beginning, this is pretty much a "first gen" kind of product so it's far from perfect, at best it gives a bit of hopes for the future in x86 land while we wait for real world tests of qualcomm

I'm really looking forward to get a 13-14" 1080p APU-powered laptop that is good enough to game at medium settings. Steam Deck proves that this is possible!

Great seeing Intel catching up and even outperforming in certain metrics. 👏

It's worth noting that since Ryzen 4000/5000 and Tiger Lake we really didn't had proper cheap iGPU laptops. AMD 6000 got way more expensive and Intel 12/13th low tier SKUs were still the same iGPU and not really better (U) overall. Right now we have old-gen laptops then entry level modern gaming laptops with like RTX 4050/60 and then thin and ultraportable iGPU only, often at prices equal or exceeding dGPU semi-ultraportables. You can get HP premium iGPU laptop in the same price range as Gigabyte Aero with RTX 4070 and more, or opt for LG Gram / Acer Swift Edge that are somewhat expensive but cheaper than the "premium" range while being imbalanced products (the "thinest" or "lightest" at the expense of flex, thermals and performance).

As someone who was about to buy a MacBook, these updates may yet keep me on windows! IMO it was easier for the M1 to do what it did then because a lot of the ecosystem is in house compared to windows laptops. Regardless, this is a big step for windows users!

yo Dave seems you didn't mention it, but how does it perform when unplugged/internal power? cause that's one of the main advantages for macs, although this is an os thing already but just wanna find out if the chip helps.

So what speed RAM did they give you in the review unit laptops? And is it the same speed as what the consumer would get if they were buying the same laptop? Seems like it would be an easy way to boost iGPU performance in reviews.

Dave, you went really easy on Intel here :) as others have rightfully pointed out, comparing it to M2 instead of M3 feels like a cop out.

Was really hoping to see a Zenbook 14X with an amd 7840U next year, but the new Intel seems like it will do the job 👍

Super cool video as usual. Just out of curiosity, what happened to your cut at 2:55 ?

woah I haven't watched your videos for a couple years now and I haven't seen your new hair. I love the new look

Honestly, having a chip to run neural networks makes me excited for the concept of better NPCs

Great video, just an advice for the colors in the battery performance section(and in general), colorblind people have really hard time differentiating between some colors, the green colors look exactly the same for me for example, I'd recommend to use more contrasting colors

I love how you're so honest. Both in your words and more in your emotions. It's like I imagine myself, minus your good looks, half the time in your videos. With that hair, I suspect all these tech videos shenanigans are just a stepping stone to Hollywood 😊

I love your hand gestures tho

I can't wait to see qualcomm's Oryon chip in laptops I hope windows for arm would be well optimized and ready by then 👀 Because i have a feeling that chip could have a higher impact (since it's an arm architecture) so power efficiency would be even better

So, how will Snapdragon Elite X fair against these?

damn dude I think this is my first time seeing one of your vids this year and I LOVE THE HAIR LETS GOOOOOO

"they've just caught up" exactly what i was thinking the entire time

I am so happy Dave got Intel's money. Really waited for this moment.

I was also really hoping that this was going to be a stratospheric jump. They had been hyping it up, they've changed the branding, they've been working on this for a long time, and yet all it does is finally make them equally competitive again. Like... congrats on doing the bare minimum I guess?

Hey Dave, I love your video’s. Thank you for your time making this one. This time though, I would have thought you put a question mark in the title of the video. Your comparison on battery life proves that the previous generation of Apple’s processors is almost double as efficient. Please, anyone, correct me if I’m wrong: The MacBook Air with M2 (previous generation) and a LCD screen, plays Netflix for the same duration as the Zenbook 14 with the new gen Intel cpu, an OLED screen and a battery that’s almost 50%(!) bigger. Maybe shortsighted people will call me an Apple fan boy, but look at the numbers.. If Intel and AMD keep going like this, Apple can chill and release a MacBook Air SE in 2026 with an OLED screen, M5 processor and 16gb of RAM and still have no competition on having an efficient processor. On another note: Can someone point me in the right direction for a windows laptop that has the same standby time as a recent MacBook? The windows laptops that I owned and currently own always lose their charge when not in use. I already disabled everything that can sip energy from the battery when the device is off or in standby but nothing comes close to the standby time that I had on a M1 MacBook Air I had to sell. Thanks in advance, and have a great one!

After owning the M1 MacBook pro it has become impossible for me to even consider any Intel or AMD laptop when I see their battery life is 5 hours

I love competition, but I’m curious why you didn’t include the M3/ M3 Pro

which M2 chip are you testing these against? pro? max? ultra?

I am interested in seeing some test results with video editing.

Intel has NOT caught up yet! They’ve only caught up to Apple’s *previous-gen* BASE model chip (slowest, regular M2). But it’s still a huge jump for them, so you love to see it.

It took Intel getting beat up by the competition to wake up...AGAIN, but it is nice to see Arc being implemented on an APU and achieving great results comparable to AMD's best APU. I am very impressed with the gaming performance and battery life. Intel has never been competitive on the GPU side, and now they are. As you said, I wish AMD APU's would be put into these smaller form factors.