Windows is Ruining New Laptops.

This is going to be a weird video because typically when I cover a new laptop, I will focus primarily on the hardware. But right now, because Windows, the operating systems in such a bad state, I think it has an impact on how we should view all of this hardware to begin with. So, for years, Windows devices have been chasing Apple's MacBooks. First, it was about build quality. We wanted Windows laptops that were built as well as Apple's MacBooks. But then, in 2020, it became about their chip. When Apple dropped the M1 chip, that thing was so much better than anything else in the market. It was crazy. People switched operating systems. People switched ecosystems because of that chip. It was so good. Now, for Intel, it was a journey. Ever since then, they've been in the kitchen just cooking, desperately trying to make laptop chips that were competitive in this space. And today, they finally have something that's excellent. Like actually excellent. So, this is their Core Ultra Series 3. And this thing is so good. For multi-core, we're getting great performance gains over the previous generation at the same energy consumption. If you're doing renders or you're compiling code or doing anything that can just take advantage of all the different cores on a chip, these are really nice. But the biggest gains, like the most impressive thing about these new chips are the graphics. The new GPUs are built on their XE3 architecture and the highest performing version of it is their 12core GPU. And it really is that 50% improvement in performance that they were claiming. These are so good. I genuinely feel comfortable enough queuing up for a ranked match on this device. And considering these are like thin and light productivity, work focused laptops that are not marketed as gaming devices to pull this off is amazing. Keep in mind that all these benchmarks come from their top tier chip, the X9 388H. And if you want that super powerful GPU, it only comes in the chips that have the X in front of it. So there's three of them.