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This mini PC with an Intel U300 processor offers Raptor Lake performance on a budget

The Intel Processor U300 is a 15-watt, 5-core, 6-thread chip based on Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” architecture. It’s basically the lowest-performance Raptor Lake chip available, but it should deliver substantially better single-performance than Intel’s Alder Lake-N chips for budget devices. Intel launched the U300 processor last year, but up until recently the only Intel U300/U300E-powered computer I’ve […]

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Intel Processor U-Series bridges the gap between N-Series and Intel Core i3 (or does it?)

While looking for more details about some upcoming laptops, I noticed that the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14 inch notebook, which supports up to an Intel Core i7-1355U Raptor Lake processor, will also be one of the first notebooks to support some of least powerful Raptor Lake chips. Entry-level configurations could be available with Intel Core […]