PC World - USA (2020-11)

36 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2020

REVIEWS PREVIEW: INTEL 11TH-GEN CORE I7-1185G7 TIGER LAKE

gave us the opportunity to take an 11th-gen

Tiger Lake reference laptop (a sample design,

not a retail product) for a spin.

Keep reading to see how it

fares in a grueling roster of

benchmarks. And if you want to

skip to a specific section, please

use the links at left or below:

A PREVIEW WITH

CONDITIONS

For this performance preview,

Intel loaned us the laptop with a

few strings attached. We say

few, because there were a

couple more for which we had a

nerds’ agreement not to test.

The main one was

battery life. Intel said the

reference laptop was still

pretty rough in tuning,

and the company didn’t

think it would be

representative of battery

life from a final unit. The

trickle-down of that meant

we also couldn’t report

on, say, how much power

it used while on battery.

Although battery power is

extremely important in a

laptop, we felt it was a fair

request.

The second request

was not to show a photo of the insides of the

laptop. We are allowed to show you the

Intel gave us full access to a reference laptop with an Intel 11th-gen Core

i7-1185G7 inside of it.

The Intel Tiger Lake reference laptop we used featured two heat

pipes and a single fan and fin stack.