The first laptops packing the new Intel Lunar Lake CPUs have arrived, and we've put a few of them to the test in our lab.
The Lunar Lake results are a big deal because Intel's laptop chip business has been on the ropes for a few years now. While long-time rival AMD continues to offer stiff competition, Intel's laptop chips really started to lose their luster when first Apple, then Qualcomm started shipping their own laptop SoCs (system-on-chip) that took the best MacBooks and the best Windows laptops to new heights of performance and power efficiency which Intel's best silicon couldn't match.
