As others have said, I'll believe the hype when I see reviews of actual hardware - I'm specifically waiting to see what Ars says about the upcoming XPS. I know it's fashionable to hate on Dell, but they seem to make laptops that pair well with Linux.
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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.
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.
i'm either going/switching with a Dell XPS or Asus ZenBook later this year.
I had a XPS that lasted only several years and a zen book in autumn 2023 as like blue color asus has.
Microsoft last 40 million Friday so perhaps they wont be a big over confident company anymore.
I had a XPS that lasted only several years and a zen book in autumn 2023 as like blue color asus has.
Microsoft last 40 million Friday so perhaps they wont be a big over confident company anymore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.