Confusing customers with naming: Why you should be very careful when choosing the CPU of any 2025 laptop with Intel CPUs

[Redaktion]

In 2025, customers buying a Windows laptop have as much choice as never before when it comes to processors. Snapdragon X, Krackan Point, Strix Point, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, it is easy to get confused. Especially confusing this year is Intel's lineup, where customers should avoid a certain type of Arrow Lake CPUs at all costs.

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[Terror Byte]

It's not just confusing it's down right criminal and AMD is just as bad with refreshes of refreshes fobbed off as though it's the latest. It's designed deliberately to con the consumer.

[A]

It's not just confusing it's down right criminal and AMD is just as bad with refreshes of refreshes fobbed off as though it's the latest. It's designed deliberately to con the consumer.

To be honest, I don't have a problem with refreshes being used. Usually the so called refreshes are cheaper than previous year or have higher clocks.

The most annoying thing is the wattage game where a cpu sku can give half the performance of a lower cpu simply due to different wattage. This makes it impossible to know the actual performance of a laptop unless a review is done of that specific configuration. That is criminal.