Subj : How good will battery life be with Intel Lunar Lake CPUs? Lenovos To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Sep 19 2024 12:45:05 How good will battery life be with Intel Lunar Lake CPUs? Lenovos testing shows a Yoga laptop blowing away Apples MacBook M3 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:31:51 +0000 Description: Lenovo shows off Yoga Slim 7i laptop that offers eye-opening battery life. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Intels Lunar Lake processors are really going to deliver on the battery life front, according to some new info from Lenovo. Toms Hardware flagged up that Lenovo has apparently broken an NDA and published battery life figures for one of its new Yoga laptops with a Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) CPU, and they are nothing short of astonishing. If the claims are right and take any internal benchmarking with a little seasoning, as ever the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is capable of almost 24 hours of video playback (with a 1080p H.264 video clip running at 24 FPS). The laptop packs one of Intels Core Ultra 7 258V processors, showing off the efficiency of this second-tier Lunar Lake model. Interestingly, Lenovo also provided comparative battery longevity results for Apple MacBook laptops with M2 and M3 silicon, and the Yoga Slim 7i outperformed both by over five hours (the M3 MacBook lasted 18 hours and 32 minutes, and the M2 laptop 18 hours and 19 minutes). Brightness was uniform, with Wi-Fi and keyboard backlighting turned off (and sound muted) in this testing, were told. Check out Lenovos demo yourself in the YouTube clip below (which is still live at the time of writing it may not stay that way, though). Analysis: Lunar eclipse of Apple and Qualcomm? Intel has said it has concentrated in a big way on efficiency with Lunar Lake , and this would appear to very much back up that idea . The comparison to MacBooks shows that Lunar Lake, a traditional x86 processor, can outdo Apples Arm-based chips, and quite comfortably too and Arm silicon is famously strong for laptop battery life. Toms also reminds us that this battery testing isnt even the beefiest longevity weve seen a laptop maker boast about for an incoming Lunar Lake notebook. There are claims of more like 26 hours in other cases, and Asus has boasted about a battery life of up to 29 hours at the most eye-opening end of the estimates here. Do we have a new champion CPU for the engine of the best thin-and-light laptops in Lunar Lake? Its looking that way, and Apple as well as Qualcomm, with its Arm-based Snapdragon X SoCs for Windows 11 laptops should be rightly worried by the look of things. The other question is how much performance has been traded off for better power efficiency with Intels new mobile CPUs, but from what weve seen recently at the IFA show , the compromise looks more than palatable in this respect. Dont forget that Lunar Lake has some pretty cool hidden tricks, too, one of which will delight gamers and creatives , and the chips offer enough grunt on the AI front to qualify for Copilot+ PCs. Ultimately, well need to test Lunar Lake machines ourselves to uncover the full picture, and how performance and battery longevity are really balanced but it wont be long before that happens. The first laptops packing Lunar Lake CPUs go on sale next week, on September 24 , although itll likely be a modest trickle of releases to begin with, if past history is anything to go by. You might also like Microsoft could be working with Intel to optimize Lunar Lake CPUs for Windows 11 We've chosen all the best student laptops These are the best laptops: top portable picks for all budgets ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/how-good-will-battery-life-be-with -intel-lunar-lake-cpus-lenovos-testing-shows-a-yoga-laptop-blowing-away-apples -macbook-m3 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .