Intel seems to have made a big leap in laptop battery life.
The tech company’s new Lunar Lake mobile processors promise to exceed even the most optimistic expectations, challenging the long-acknowledged supremacy of MacBooks in this regard.
Lunar Lake vs. MacBook-uri
According to an autonomy test carried out by Lenovo, its new model Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition, equipped with the Core Ultra 7 258V processor, managed almost 24 hours of continuous video playback.
Specifically, the device ran for 23 hours and 54 minutes in a local video playback test, beating both the M3 and M2 MacBooks by more than five hours.
Release and other details
These figures come ahead of the official debut for laptops equipped with the new Intel chips, scheduled for September 24, 2024.
Lenovo seems to have revealed this information earlier than expected. To put things into perspective, in the same test, the MacBook with the M3 processor lasted 18 hours and 32 minutes.
The variant with M2 on board reached 18 hours and 19 minutes.
The innovations behind Lunar Lake
Why are these processors efficient? Intel used a novel approach in their design: they outsourced production to TSMC, a renowned manufacturer in the industry.
Moreover, it abandoned the Hyper-Threading technology, present for a long time in its processors, in favor of optimizing energy consumption.
The new chips also emphasize efficient cores as the main drivers of performance.
Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition Specifications
This laptop has a 15.3-inch screen, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X 8533MHz RAM, a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, a 70WHr battery, and Wi-Fi 7.
The question that remains is: can Intel maintain the level of performance once this autonomy is reached?
Lunar Lake processors have a maximum of eight cores, which could be a limitation in tasks that need many concurrent threads.
The future of laptops
If these figures are confirmed in independent tests, we could witness a major change in the laptop landscape.
Intel seems ready to offer a strong alternative for users who want to put autonomy first.
Source: Digital Trends
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