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Anybody going for laptops with Panther Lake?
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Usually I hate Dell from the beginning of the computer industry as they made cheap laptop computers with very noisy keyboard and most of Dell's users liked to hammer their crazy loud keyboard in public areas. However, for the past few years I heard that they are like the PC version of Mac from respectful members here and my very limited touching of its XPS. Giving that TC is making us to play the waiting, if any PC manufacture makes their laptop available the next few days, I will give them a try.
TSE
macrumors 601
I think the Dell XPS is the finest example of PC hardware outside of the premium thinkpads... But Dell is really hit or miss when it comes to QC.
Dell XPS 14 and 16 are on sale as is an HP Panther Lake 16 inch laptop at Best Buy. I'm not interested in these as I'm looking for a 2.2 pound laptop but it is interesting that they are purchaseable now.
Pretty amazing that it only weighs 1.56 kg. The rollout of just these four is better than I was expecting.
These dual-screen laptops have been out for at least a year, maybe a lot longer. There are several Lunar Lake versions around and Huawei has one. Not for me but I assume that there's some market out there for them.
One thing I noticed about Dell XPS RAM tiers is that it's $450 to go from 16 to 32 GB so $50 more than Apple charges.
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
their storage upgrades are worse
my only my explanation or 1+1=2 is
the extra charge goes to a USA child fund as a 2026 newborn get a stimulus refund when they turn 18yrs.
dmr727
macrumors G4
This is encouraging:
arstechnica.com
Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel's best laptop CPU in a very long time
Intel manages big boosts to CPU and GPU speed without blowing up battery life.
arstechnica.com
Those are the keyboards from about 2000-2010. Those keyboards were cheap but when you hit a key, you knew you hit it.
Nowadays, we have mechanical keyboards that make the noise but also have the heavy weighted feeling. I'm a fan of Cherry MX Blues myself but you really need a private office or you disturb other people. Back in the 1980s, everyone had the IBM PC keyboards which made a ton of noise and everyone just got used to it.
This is encouraging:
Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel's best laptop CPU in a very long time
Intel manages big boosts to CPU and GPU speed without blowing up battery life.
One of the comments comparing it to Lunar Lake is that one test was twice as fast but used twice the power. I guess that's a feature in that there's performance that you can access but that's about it.
I suspect Panther Lake will be complicated but it's looking really good so far.
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
everything is complicated with computer (and life) now or else there will not be youTube.
my concern is this ARC ARM added spice in computers now
as i should have asked my quick basic professor in 1990 about this but had a date after class instead.
that asus laptop being released soon this year seems great by every review but the options are "complicated"
Things were pretty simple with 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th gen. You got more cores, more power, faster computer.
Core Ultra 1 and 2 were strange and 3 seems to be pretty good though we still need a lot of benchmarks over it.
I'm not sure what you mean by ARC ARM.
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
im confused too and will find out eventually.
i know or think that silicone uses an chip architecture as to much system data of GB
are stored and wasted ......is that ARM?
(hands in the air)
i will research this later, as i dont expect an answer so late in the day now.
Apple Silicon is ARM.
System data storage is unrelated to chip architecture. People see system data storage issues in Intel and ARM Macs.
ARC is Intel's GPU name.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
the way asus tries to explain computers is "huh?" while reading the specs.
does has a better method of explaining how their computers devices works
now when i click "learn more" i get a white screen on my MBP2012 firefox
therefore i cant type what is confusing me.
so i will just let this be until Asus ships the Ultra, Superbe, Magnificent or FanglesdanglesBook to us public!
What exactly are you referring to? It seems pretty similar to me. Both have a scrolly marketing page full of useless gunk and like "Smarter. Faster. With AI" or "Built for AI. From the silicon up." and buttons that say "tech specs" that explain the specs in basically the same way as computer ads from magazines 30 years ago that's actually useful..
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
my MBP 2012 Mojave OS Firefox gets this page: obviously this is on my end.
while the MacBook Air m1 Monterey safari shows the tech specs.
so their webpage does not like older tech, understandable.
as far as the ARM,ARC,NPU,CPU,GPU, "RUaPU"? etc. and other abbreviations that confuse me,
I will just ignore them and give up to figure out what they mean and enjoy life.
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maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
If you're buying a computer in 2026, then you ought to do some research and your due diligence.
Btw, many of these terms are not new, for instance CPU stands for Central Processing Unit, its been an acronym since the earliest days of home computing. GPU, is similar, Graphics Processing Unit.
Just a do a bit of googling, see what they mean. Being an informed consumer allows you to make the best decision on purchases, and in the long run saves you money
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
thanks, I think I will get a blind fold go to a micro center and say: abracadabra!
in 2018 I spent 3 months and finally purchased a Dell XPS 9730 as that "jumping ship" thread on MRF helped.
personally, these are just computers not detailed or important as cycling is for me considered.
if I crash on my MacBook Pro 2012 going 240 KPS i'm fine,
if I crash on my Canyon Endurance carbon road bike going 23 mph i'm in ouchie danger.
somehow against all online advice by major bicycle part retailers
(cough cough performance bikes, summit bikes, local bike shops etc)
my 1993 Italian road bike now has Shimano hallow tech crankset which was deemed not feasible.
not even YT covered this transformation in detail as perhaps is could be a successful YT'r for older road bike frames?
anyways My focus shifted to cycling nowadays
im not really going to care about the static and what Asus or dell barks about anymore
therefore im just gonna stop typing about these things I don't understand or want to
and leave everyone alone here.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Here's a fairly indepth article on Panther Lake
Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel’s best laptop CPU in a very long time
Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra review: Intel’s best laptop CPU in a very long time