First look: Our hands-on expreience with a Wildcat Lake powered Intel reference laptop

[Redaktion]

Notebookcheck got some hands-on time with an laptop powered by Intel's Wildcat Lake CPUs. It was an Intel reference device with an unspecified six-core CPU and 16 GB of soldered memory.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/First-look-Our-hands-on-expreience-with-a-Wildcat-Lake-powered-Intel-reference-laptop.1281423.0.html

[Enma45]

These processors remind me of the old Intel processors, which couldn't even run Minesweeper, and you could only open one page at a time in the browser, whereas nowadays we all use multiple websites open. I would never buy a laptop with these processors.

[Anonymousgg]

These processors remind me of the old Intel processors, which couldn't even run Minesweeper, and you could only open one page at a time in the browser, whereas nowadays we all use multiple websites open. I would never buy a laptop with these processors.

The top Core 7 360/350 Wildcat Lake models likely have multi-threaded performance somewhere between an i5-8600K and i3-13100, and similar to if not better than an i3-1315U. Also, with single-threaded performance faster than all of those, due to its Cougar Cove P-cores boosting to 4.8 GHz. So the idea that these are too slow to handle web browsing is laughable and out of touch.

There may be better options out there if Wildcat Lake laptops are $500+, such as discount laptops with the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350. But they have adequate CPU performance.