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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[spiritofreason]

I'm not sure what instrumentation is available to help, but it would be really cool to see energy usage alongside time to completion (or the performance figure for the test). With TDPs and turbo frequencies all making things blurry, it's hard to tell how the components compare.

Thanks for the write-up!

 

[spiritofreason]

One of the most impressive things IMO about this reference system was the boot time—7.2 seconds cold boot, from pressing the power button to sitting at a working desktop.

That is pretty quick. Would you happen to have any ideas where they might've shaved off some time?

Hm... is most of the typical boot time due to UEFI slowness? And perhaps they have more optimized init code / a cut-down payload?

 

[spiritofreason]

One of the most impressive things IMO about this reference system was the boot time—7.2 seconds cold boot, from pressing the power button to sitting at a working desktop.

I'm not a big fan of putting sleeping laptops in travel bags to go from place to place, so a really fast cold boot time is right up my alley.

I feel the same way.

Some laptops leave certain identifying equipment (e.g. a WiFi/BT radio) on during sleep, and some thieves have sniffers for the signals. There have been a number of vehicle trunk break-ins at a few restaurants around here where only specific cars that had sleeping laptops were targeted. Perhaps leaving valuables in the car isn't the best idea, but at least turning the laptop off is better.