Even if 388H costs close to Strix Halo, they are 2 very different classes of laptop.

Thin and Light, Luxury-class laptop

or

Various form-factor, Middle-class/gaming laptop



Still waiting to see how 358H and 338H laptops are priced. 358H is basically within 5% of 388H in terms of performance anyways. While pre-orders for 358H laptops started at $1299 for 32GB of RAM, it wouldn't surprise me to see those prices stabilize $100-200 higher over the next 3-6 months.

Yeah, it will take another year or two for this and Strix Halo to be more affordable while Intel and AMD work on successors. Add to that Nvidia jumping into the CPU market with N1X chips. Things are about to get very exciting.

Whenever a company launches a new chip they always put it in premium designs. So they can charge higher prices for larger profits. This is standard practice for all companies, not intel specific.

Remember, when halo first launched? They stuck it in a premium tablet design and and expensive business notebook at first. Same logic. Now they're bringing it to more budget tuf a14 series, a year later.

Quote from: DS27 on Today at 11:51:27Intel is lost. They think they're some premium crap.

Lost how? what do you want them to do? sell at a loss or something? it's not like they have an actual competitor. people can yap about Strix Halo all they want, it's still an irrelevant product wiht very low volume. there are more Panther Lake laptops announced in one month than Strix Halo laptops announced since CES 2025. and many big OEMs didn't even launch their products yet. wait until Q2, then the topic becomes relevant. Lenovo will have comparable products with both Panther Lake and Strix Halo (if they even manage to launch that Legion 7). we will be able to compare prices more accurately.

Intel is lost. They think they're some premium crap.