Lenovo is successfully stoking interest around the forthcoming Lunar Lake laptops by Intel. Which are said to have better battery life than Apple’s M2 and M3 laptops. The initial concept of this type of design was revealed in an Intel press release in June 2023, following . Which a paper launch took place on Sept. 3. “Because today we are uploading less than a minute clip concentrating on the battery performance of the soon to launch Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition powered by Lunar Lake. And its advantage against MacBooks.” Lenovo’s Lunar Lake Laptops Promise Superior Battery Life.
Using the Lenovo PC YouTube channel. Lenovo published an 18-second battery performance promotional video. Where a time-lapse battery performance test of a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i with Lunar Lake versus MacBook with M2 and M3 processors was performed. The test demonstrates Yoga Slim running for 23 hours and 54 minutes. Which is approximately five. And a half hours longer than what the MacBooks were tested under. Videos at a brightness setting of 150 nits. And resolution of 1080p with a frame rate of 24fps were played with a local non-linear editing program during the battery test.
Competition Heats Up: Qualcomm and Dell Enter the Ring Lenovo’s
Lenovo isn’t the only company which has been claiming so much in battery life for its Lunar Lake laptops. Dell’s XPS 13 that also incorporates the same Lunar Lake chip also scored as much as 26 hours in similar tests. However, it appears that Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus is on the way to being the most formidable rival of the Lunar Lake family. Dell says that up to 27 hours is possible with its XPS 13 powered by a Qualcomm chip. AMD too is expected to meet this competition with Zen 5 mobile chip in the near future increasing battery life competition.
Intel Core Ultra 7 Powers the Test Lenovo’s
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i used for the test is based on Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor. And has DDR5 32GB memory installed all running on Windows 11 24h2. While this particular chip is amongst the highest ranges that can be achieved in the Lunar Lake ecosystem. There is still a Core Ultra 9 chip. Which operates at higher clock frequencies but has two times its power consumption. This factor in particular makes the Core Ultra 7 the perfect profile for the balancing act of energy performance.
The Prospects of Lunar Lake by Intel
It is worthy to mention that Intel’s Lunar Lake is the first line of chips produced on TSMC’s advanced 3nm technology as Apple’s M-series architecture. With laptops redesigning with Lunar Lake CPUs scheduled for sale on Sept. 24, the tech world is straining at the leash for further benchmarks to determine that whether this architecture is worth the hype.
