PC World - USA (2020-05)

100 PCWorld MAY 2020

FEATURE AMD RYZEN 4000 OR INTEL COMET LAKE H LAPTOP

what to expect out of a gaming laptop for

performance and portability.

Not to be outdone, Intel’s new 10th-gen

Comet Lake H (go.pcworld.com/lkhr) also

resets what to expect out of gaming and

workhorse laptops with a Core i7. That’s

because Intel has now introduced 8-core

CPUs with Core i7 branding, after previously

restricting that high core count to the

premium Core i9. It brought enough of an

improvement for us to pronounce the

10th-gen Comet Lake H Core i7 the best Core

i7 we’ve ever seen.

Should you wait for the new laptops, or

N

ow that AMD’s boffo Ryzen

4000 chips and Intel’s 10th-gen

Comet Lake H are both out,

laptop shoppers have to decide

whether to wait for shiny new models to ship,

or jump now to find some good deals on the

current generation still available.

The biggest surprise was the Ryzen 9

4900HS (go.pcworld.com/49hs) we

reviewed in the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

laptop (see page 47). We expected the CPU

to be fast, but we didn’t know it would handle

its acoustics and thermals so well, too. Ryzen

4000 and the ROG Zephyrus G14 have reset

Razer’s new 17-inch gaming laptop is based on Intel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake H, which is just about to launch.