News Intel Twin Lake CPU powers Chuwi's new 2-in-1 laptop and tablet — MiniBook X N150 and Hi10 X N150 features quad-core Intel N150 CPU

[Admin]

Chuwi is launching the first Intel Twin Lake-powered laptop and tablet to market.

Intel Twin Lake CPU powers Chuwi's new 2-in-1 laptop and tablet — MiniBook X N150 and Hi10 X N150 features quad-core Intel N150 CPU : Read more

 

[bit_user]

Despite being low-power chips, Intel’s Twin Lake NX50 processors make laptops and tablets more affordable. This makes it perfect for kids, students, grandparents, and everyone who needs a laptop or tablet for basic internet access, light productivity, and entertainment.

This reads like ad copy.

These things have 4 Gracemont cores, with a turbo clock of 3.6 GHz. However, the turbo table probably limits dual-core boost to like 2.9 GHz and quad-core boost to 2.1 GHz, or thereabouts. Memory is limited to single-channel DDR4-3200 or DDR5-4800. PCIe is limited to 3.0.

More details, here:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...up-to-3-60-ghz/specifications.html?wapkw=N150
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It's okay for a spreadsheets, email, doc editing, and streaming stuff. It probably bogs, when loading ad-laden web pages, though. Definitely not for any but the most light-weight casual games.

 

[thestryker]

The whole Twin Lake line has already started appearing in the router boxes out of China along side ADL-N in the same devices just with a slightly higher price. I'm a little disappointed that all they did was better bins, but I'm hopeful there will be something new in this space later this year or maybe early next

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

The current model, the N100, retails for about $350 on Amazon, and if you're just looking for something for basic productivity and entertainment, it'd be hard not to recommend something like the Google Pixel Tablet + a keyboard folio + USB-C dock, especially with Android 15's freeform window mode allowing for a Samsung DeX-like desktop experience. I imagine Windows 11 would stutter quite badly with the very anemic graphics on that chip.