Intel Lunar Lake CPUs Outshine Apple M2 & M3 MacBooks with Up to 30% Longer Battery Life

Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs are set to be a game-changer in the x86 platform for thin and light laptops, promising significant battery life improvements over Apple’s offerings.

Although announced on September 3rd, consumer availability will not be available until these processors hit retail shelves perhaps with some imminent battery life results demonstrated by OEMs. On the other hand, Lenovo has teased its Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition house to the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V CPU and has even shared a poster comparing it with Apple’s M2 and M3 laptops on battery life.

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Its comparison is a simple one, with local video playback being wiped out from within at 150 nits of brightness using an H.264 (1920×1080, 24FPS) video sample as the base scenario.

In fact, the numbers above are impressive: an ultraportable Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i was tested with 32GB of DRAM integrated in-package onto the main die and running on Windows 11 OS that includes build 24H2. While the laptop is an engineering sample so mileage on the outcome may vary, it recorded a total of 23 hours and 54 minutes using a CPU powered by Intel’s Lunar Lake CPU.

By contrast, 18 hours and 32 minutes were obtained with the Apple MacBook with the M3 chip and 18 hours and 19 minutes with the M2 model. Of course, other benchmarks show that Lunar Lake is less of a breakthrough for delivering all nine yards of savings in battery life efficiency, if not somewhere around the same distance from the bucket as Lenovo was standing.

Dell says its Intel Lunar lake-based XPS 13 laptops are from $1,399 and get up to 26 hours of battery life. To put it in simple terms, Lunar Lake might serve to be Intel’s best performance improvement yet in PC chip design and could represent the most substantial move forward in years for the struggling company providing they can manage to come out on top.

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