Does Intel’s Lunar Lake maintain up? Our impressions, six months later
It’s been a couple of months since Intel’s newest play for high-end thin-and-light laptops got here out. PCWorld’s Adam and May have been attempting a couple of: the Samsung Galaxy Guide 5 Professional 360, the MSI Status 13 AI+ Evo, and the MSI Claw 8 AI+ handheld. The blokes break down their long-term impressions within the newest PCWorld video.
Samsung Galaxy Guide 5 Professional 360
Adam had the Samsung Galaxy Guide 5 Professional 360—a giant, skinny, 2-in-1 laptop computer with a touchscreen and pen assist. It’s additionally surprisingly mild on RAM for being so premium and packing a Core Extremely 7 256V processor. Most duties had been superb, however Adam may actually see the laptop computer chugging when he threw some Adobe Bridge and Photoshop work on prime of normal Chrome tabs. The on-chip reminiscence shared between the CPU and GPU means it’s going to wrestle versus something with discrete graphics.
On the plus facet, it’s rocking a giant, stunning display in a skinny physique, which additionally means a roomy trackpad. And with 76 watt-hours of battery and an aggressively environment friendly setup, it will probably go for a stable workday on a cost.
MSI Status 13 AI+ Evo
Regardless of being smaller, the MSI Status 13 AI+ Evo that Will tried out is definitely extra highly effective, with a slightly-juiced Core Extremely 7 258V processor and double the RAM at 32GB. That provides the Arc GPU much more room to breathe, making it appropriate for some fundamental gaming, even when it wants to show the settings approach right down to hit native decision on that OLED show. Will says that utilizing this laptop computer made him lastly cease envying his spouse’s MacBook Air for its battery life—it will probably go for a number of days due to aggressive settings and presence detection.
Each laptops get a bit of heat and sometimes have to hit the fan for some warmth administration, however in any other case carry out such as you’d count on for premium thin-and-lights. Adam favored the touchscreen on the Samsung even when he by no means used the pen, Will favored the shortage of touchscreen on the MSI, and each of them are cautious of Intel’s graphics driver updates that may override the OEM settings that got here from the manufacturing facility.
MSI Claw 8 AI+
What concerning the Claaaaaaw? MSI’s gaming handheld is an oddball within the section, as like the unique Claw, it’s operating an Intel processor and built-in graphics as an alternative of an AMD APU. The Claw 8 AI+ can also be a bit of bigger and beefier than some alternate options with its 8-inch display, however Adam says it’s surprisingly comfortable, if a bit of tall. It’s additionally operating that extra highly effective 258V chip with 32GB of RAM, and it’s surprisingly quiet for a handheld with an energetic fan.
Adam didn’t do a lot stress testing on the battery, however I wouldn’t count on it to final lengthy. And I ought to point out that, even with a typically optimistic response to the revised Lunar Lake handheld, MSI appears to be having manufacturing points. The Claw 8 is extremely exhausting to seek out for the time being.
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