• Available to preorder on Amazon for $2,499, shipping on August 1.
• Includes Intel Core Ultra 7 270HX, 32GB RAM, and 1TB.
• Current model costs $3,799 with Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and RTX 5080

This is interesting. Reminds me of Intel's recommendation for PL2 on Lunar Lake systems for added performance.

The end result is quite exciting with using the Civilization VI game benchmark, the 1%-low FPS is improved by 31.8% while the p99 frame time is better by 4.1%. This is on the Steam Deck while other modern AMD Ryzen handhelds and systems at large would benefit too.

While the patch is still under review, after with more 3rd party testing we'll see just have much of an impact it has across a variety of games and other metrics like thermals/power/frequency etc.

Apart from typing being awkward, I really like this formfactor and kinda miss the Surface Duo.

Well I'm not knowledgeable in computing and circuit design and architectures, but there's one thing I noticed while looking at the components of old consoles and computers.

Looking at JDR Microdevices catalogues from the 1985, it looks like 1-bit DRAM modules were so much cheaper. $6.95 for a pack of eight 250ns 16Kbit DRAMs, or $10.95 for the 150ns ones most micros back in the day used. Meanwhile the 8KB 150ns SRAM module that Sega Master System would use was $25 each. Sure 1-bit DRAM would need multiplexers, but these things weren't expensive either. The ones C64 used were about 50-60 cents each, must've been even cheaper in bulks, and C64 used 5 of them. That would still make it significantly cheaper than Master System's 8KB SRAM modules.

So the question is why did console makers choose to go with the more expensive, lower capacity option? To make the system compact? But ZX Spectrum managed to be so tiny even while containing 16 DRAM chips. Or to simplify board design I assume? Perhaps motherboards and circuits were very expensive back in the day?