Laptop Best Buy Guide

For years now, we’ve been kicking off October’s Best Buy Guide with a brief look back at the major tech fair that takes place in September: IFA. That is slightly different this year, because the IFA has not taken the usual course. However, that is not to say that no announcements have been made. Most of the laptop announcements came from Intel’s introduction of the Ice Lake architecture successor, called Tiger Lake.

We wrote a background article about Tiger Lake and the most important improvements of the new processor are the higher clock speed for the CPU cores and the Xe GPU, which should be much faster than what we are used to from Intel’s IGPs. In addition, Intel announced its Evo certification program. You can see that as a continuation of Project Athena , but with some new requirements. For example, an eleventh generation processor, aka Tiger Lake, is required.

These Tiger Lake processors can be found in Dell’s XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 and in a whole series of new business laptops from MSI , which is best known for its gaming laptops. Also ASUS announced laptops with Tiger Lake and the most interesting of which is the Zenbook S, which can be equipped with a 13.9 “display with 3: 2 ratio and a resolution of 3300×2200 pixels panel that we will no doubt look back on. other laptops and is also part of an interesting trend in which manufacturers are increasingly opting for ‘higher’ laptop screens with a 16:10 or 3: 2 ratio.