Ignore the AI hype and the silly Co-pilot button.
This chip and system are all about power efficiency.
That said, the processor in this machine isIntel’s newest Luna Lake generation.
It offers an interesting combination of power, efficiency and new technology.
Let’s talk about how silly this all is.
But most people using AI aren’t running these models locally.
They’re on the Cloud, so having an AI-capable chip makes zero difference when using Midjourney orChatGPT.
Oh, hang on.
Those Microsoft visions of the future never materialised, did they?
The machine we experienced has the lowest-spec Luna Lake design, the Intel Core Ultra 5 Processor 226V.
It’s also not clocked highly at just 2.1GHz, though it can boost to 4.5GHz with limited cores.
The chip’s thin connections allow a standard TPD of only 17W (37W max).
It also sports a PCIe 5.0 bus and a new version of the ARC integrated graphics designated the 130V.
As it doesn’t offer a LAN port, the best way to add one is via a dock.
They were collected using a sample machine with a sample processor, so take them as potentially flawed.
But where it completely trounces both those systems is in battery life.
It’s thin and reasonably lightweight, while the aluminium skin makes it feel robust and substantial.
It’s also quite affordable for such new technology.
That coming from Asus is rather refreshing.
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