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I just saw a review of a Lunar Lake laptop and am considering one

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pshufd

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I need to run one heavyweight Windows program and it runs via WINE and Rosetta 2 on my M1 Pro MacBook Pro. I can run the same program on an old Intel desktop and it runs much faster using 10% of the RAM compared to Apple Silicon.

I saw the Max Tech review on an Asus Lunar Lake laptop and it's comparable in performance and battery life to an M3 MacBook Pro 14. I may get one of these to take when traveling by air or both when traveling on the road. I could take my iPad mini to access my iCloud Apps. It would also open up a lot of options for gaming.

This is built on Taiwan Semiconductor's 3 nm process.
 
A lot of hype around it with regards to extreme battery life and iGPU performance that finally edges out AMD but still second class to mobile dGPU for gaming experience. Got one on pre-order but after buying a $500 NIB 14" Lenovo Yoga 7, 8840HS, 16GB, 1TB, 71Wh that gets around 13 hours with browsing am on the fence if Lunar Lake laptop even if better is worth 2.6x the cost with tax. Gut instinct says likely not but only way to confirm is with first hand experience.

Pre-ordered the 15" Yoga Slim 7i Aura, 258V, 32GB, 1TB, 70Wh for $1206 before tax with stacked discounts. Still window shopping if other manufacturers have better specs and/or bang for the buck.

Lunar Lake laptop options:

15" Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura (usually good deal from Lenovo stacking discounts)
14" Asus Zenbook S 14
13.3" MSI Prestige 13 AI+ EVO (largest 75Wh battery and lightest at 22# but smaller display)
13.4" Dell XPS 13 (smallest 55Wh battery while others have 70 to 75Wh)
 
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These new lunar lake laptops surely look impressive for sure. If I didnt already have my m2 MacBook Air, I would definitely consider one as my portable device, but I dont need anything more powerful anyways and like the integration with the rest of my apple devices
 
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A lot of data to wade through but this guy is more competent and credible so deserves early view. Overall, it's about what I expected for Lunar Lake that's no longer node disadvantaged, with higher bandwidth memory but driver teething pains. Still on the fence with regards to bang for buck.

 
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mi7chy said:
A lot of data to wade through but this guy is more competent and credible so deserves early view. Overall, it's about what I expected for Lunar Lake that's no longer node disadvantaged, with higher bandwidth memory but driver teething pains. Still on the fence with regards to bang for buck.

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I'll give it a few months and see if there's an LG Gram or large screen Razer.
 
1BadManVan said:
most definitely will be an lg gram variant of it for sure. Might take razer awhile to implement it though
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I'm not fully sure that Razer would want to make one as this is their high-efficiency chip. I think that Arrow Lake is their performance chip.
 
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