I love Intel's new laptop chips. But they're missing a crucial feature
Intel's new Core Ultra 200 processors offer a huge leap forward in performance on top of all-day battery life. But these new "Arrow Lake" chips leave out an absolute necessity of today's PCs: an NPU, the engine which powers AI performance across the board. We knew this going into my review of Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H inside of an MSI laptop. But it might be time for Intel -- and maybe AMD, too -- to take a step back and consider what consumers really want: a "good," one-size-fits-all mainstream PC. And a clear way to identify them! Every time I review a chip or another product, I try to unearth the "story" behind it.
Feb-13-2025, 14:00:00 GMT