Ultra-thin and light laptops like the Asus Zenbook S 14 live and die by their battery life. No one likes forever hunting for outlets, and that's particularly frustrating with computers designed to be highly mobile; there's no use in being able to take your laptop everywhere if it's always dying on you.
Long-lasting battery life is one of the key selling points of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus ARM processors. However, Intel's brand new Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors claim up to 50% lower power consumption than the previous generation, which was enough to make for some interesting competition for Qualcomm.
