With Intel lifting the lid on its new Tiger Lake cell processors at this time, a variety of distributors are saying their upcoming notebooks. Schenker Technologies, a German model identified in Europe for its Xtreme Mobile Gaming (XMG) line of merchandise and customized Clevo implementations, is among the first to explain an upcoming 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake transportable pocket book as a part of its VIA line. With a light-weight magnesium chassis, the VIA 14 makes use of as much as a Core i7, a 73 Wh battery, and a one watt show to offer 14+ hours of battery life.
The key factor to notice about Tiger Lake is the rise in each CPU and GPU efficiency in comparison with the earlier era Intel pocket book processors. We nonetheless have 4 cores, however the Tiger Lake cores can now increase rather a lot larger as a consequence of Intel’s improved 10nm TremendousFin course of (which you’ll examine right here). Tiger Lake is Intel’s first product with its new Xe-LP graphics design as nicely, promising 2x the graphics efficiency of the final era. The aim with these processors is to allow a pleasant and comfy expertise in a variety of designs from ultra-premium to the run-of-the-mill.
The Schenker VIA 14 sits in that ultra-premium market. Using a light-weight magnesium chassis, the sort that we solely ever see on the costly finish of the market, the VIA 14 is claiming solely a 1.1 kg (2.Four lbs) weight regardless of additionally placing a 73 Wh battery inside. Personally I discover this a bit thoughts blowing, if I’m sincere. A 73 watt-hour battery in a 1.1 kg pocket book is insane, and they’re additionally claiming a 90% cost in 90 minutes. Not solely that, however there’s additionally one in all Intel’s accepted low-power one-watt shows, enabling 14+ hours of lively battery life in response to the press launch when at 150 nits.
Tiger Lake additionally permits PCIe 4.Zero storage, native Thunderbolt 4, and Schenker may also assist an elective LTE modem for enterprise clients. Despite being light-weight, the large battery means the pocket book is 16.5 mm, however with a 14-inch show remains to be very transportable. The ports with the VIA 14 embrace a HDMI 2.0b connection, a USB 4.0/Thunderbolt 4 Type-C with DisplayPort 1.4b assist, two USB-A 3.2 ports, a microSD card reader and a mixture headphone jack. Native connectivity is thru Wi-Fi 6, and as talked about, an LTE add-on is supported.
For storage, the VIA 14 has assist for 2 M.2 SSDs, one at PCIe 4.Zero and the opposite at PCIe 3.0. Memory is DDR4-3200, with eight GB coming pre-soldered and an eight GB SO-DIMM module coming as customary, nonetheless as much as 40 GB complete reminiscence could be supported. The 14-inch show has a most brightness of 300 nits and offers 98% protection – Schenker says the particular ‘one-watt’ show applies when operating at 150 nits. The show additionally opens to a 180-degree hinge.
Prices for the VIA 14 will begin at €1,246.75 (that features 16% VAT) on the finish of October. The base mannequin options the Core i7-1165G7, eight GB DDR4, and a 250 GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD, and fashions with the Core i5-1135G7 will observe later.
Schenker additionally included a preview of what’s to come back, merely stating {that a} model with a 28 W Tiger Lake processor paired with an NVIDIA graphics card might be ‘coming soon’.
