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August 26, 2013

New options for laptops: How well do Intel's new Haswell chips really work?

  • You can unplug your laptop in the morning and go a full day without a charge. But there's a catch: Slim, lightweight laptops with Haswell chips cost more than $1,000.
    • By ANICK JESDANUN
    AP Technology Writer

    NEW YORK — Just in time for the back-to-school season, new laptops with extended battery life are hitting store shelves.

    What these laptops have in common are microprocessors that belong to a new family of Intel chips called Haswell. The chips consume less power than previous generations and promise a 50 percent boost in battery life for watching video. The improvements extend to word processing, Web surfing and other computing tasks as well.


     
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