What a s*** laptop. The 9430 was the last good iteration in terms of ports, display, and keyboard. Dell is really doubling down on design language decisions seem destined to fail, but maybe I'll be proven wrong.

Dell lacks the courage to set the price to 30,000 USD.

One of the most interesting things is probably the iGPU (Arc graphics with 4 Xe cores):

Because this is the one desktop Arrow Lake will get as well. With 65W TDP the desktop chip may also be slightly faster than the mobile version. It will probably be a big jump over the existing UHD 770.


Other than that however, it will probably not be competitive to the AMD 8000G flagships...

To elaborate further, I estimate the performance like that:

4 Arc Xe cores (64 EUs) = Intel Iris Xe (96 EUs) = 5700G (Vega 8) = 8500G (Radeon 740m)


That is unfortunately still far away from 8600G or 8700G performance. I also doubt that 65W TDP on desktop Arrow Lake can pull out enough performance to catch up. The gap is quite big to the flagships.

Quote from: Bizarro_NikoB on April 19, 2024, 20:01:12What a s*** laptop.

Totally agree.  And the price of $3000 a total bullshit.

Quote from: BillG on April 19, 2024, 22:02:38And the price of $3000 a total bullshit.

As a result, prices will be reduced by 50-60% during sales season.