Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop

Tiger Lake is a much better challenger for AMD—but it's still fighting uphill.

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[Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer]

I was curious to see if Tiger Lake was going to give Apple any regrets about switching to their own custom CPUs. Looks like they'll be pretty happy with the path they've chosen, at least for now.

Whether or not that's best for consumers is a different question. I'm just interested from a technical perspective.

 

[Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer]

I was curious to see if Tiger Lake was going to give Apple any regrets about switching to their own custom CPUs. Looks like they'll be pretty happy with the path they've chosen, at least for now.

Whether or not that's best for consumers is a different question. I'm just interested from a technical perspective.

Keynote 5 years from now: we are switching to intel because double something triple something else half power usage. Enthusiastic clapping.

I honestly rather doubt it. Even if Intel can catch back up to Apple's performance, I have trouble imagining that they'll surpass it to such an extent that Apple will consider it worthwhile to switch back. Especially since it's not just performance considerations, but relinquishing so much power back to Intel.

And I wonder if Intel would even feel the need to try to compete. It's not like AMD, where they're fighting for the market of "all Windows computers". Apple's not gonna start selling their chips to HP for them to make WoA machines (well, at least, it would be a very un-Apple-like thing to do if they did).

 

[Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer]

Im glad to see AMD is pushing Intel to up their game in the laptop scene, but I still think AMD is a non-starter so long as they lack Thunderbolt 3 support. Perhaps now that its open via usb 4 we will start to see AMD laptops with them? (USB4?, USB 4.0? USB FOUR? USB OR OR OR OR? I cant keep track)

Really? Is Thunderbolt that important to you? What do you use it for?

I've never owned a single Thunderbolt peripheral. If I was given money to buy one right now I'm not sure what it would even be. Regular USB 3 can transfer 400+ MB/second. That's way more than enough for all of my peripherals.

No Thunderbolt or Lightning ? ....

....very very frightening ....

Mamma mia!