I suspect very crappy performance from those rebranded Atoms now Pentiums or Amber Lake confuse customers even more CPUs. They are OK for cheappo tablets at $200 but when one pay $1000 for laptop one could expect a bit more.
When we get to read reviews it will come to my words. For $1000 it must have amazing performance! Not special gaming /workstation laptop amazing performance but still amazing performance. With 5W chips not matter the name it will suck.
they are geared towards mobility not so much performance . they will never have a mid range / high end performing chip because their main focus is balancing battery consumption. So you either dont know what u need or you are flat out looking at the wrong item for your use.
The slowest Core-Y ever produced, the m3-6Y30, outperforms the fastest "Atom" ever produced...the C2750, and completely crushes it in single threading (3 times faster) because of the Core microarchitecture roots.
If you are having trouble separating your Atom obsession from the Core-based Y parts, because they aren't "good" enough to call Core in your mind, then think of it as an in-between, not an Atom, not a Core (although it really is a Core, down to the chipset)
I have the i7-7Y75 from the earlier model XPS 13 2in1 and it's Amazing! Definitely not comparable to Atom or even the previously Core-M branded processors.
I get a consistent 10+ hours battery life, work daily as a IT professional with 50+ chrome tabs open, Office, Adobe, the usual, and at home use it for Netflix and light gaming, Minecraft, etc. and performance is excellent.
I have a Core-Y based Surface for traveling and I couldn't agree more, even as a first-gen Y part, it is plenty fast and the battery life is very good.
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milkod2001 - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
I suspect very crappy performance from those rebranded Atoms now Pentiums or Amber Lake confuse customers even more CPUs. They are OK for cheappo tablets at $200 but when one pay $1000 for laptop one could expect a bit more.Ian Cutress - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
These aren't Atoms. This is the full Core microarchitecture from the mainstream line, just binned down to 5W.milkod2001 - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
At 5W they are rebranded Atoms with pathetic performance.Death666Angel - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
No. Please educate yourself about Y series processors, they have been done for some generations now (Ivy Bridge had 7W CPUs).smilingcrow - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
Wrong on all counts but don't expect amazing performance in a fanless 2-in-1 anyway.milkod2001 - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
When we get to read reviews it will come to my words. For $1000 it must have amazing performance! Not special gaming /workstation laptop amazing performance but still amazing performance. With 5W chips not matter the name it will suck.Dug - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
You tell em milkod2001! (Who hasn't even used the laptop yet, and knows nothing about cpu design)BTW, previous iterations of the laptop have done just fine for any laptop work with any application, or in your words, it sucked.
Hxx - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link
they are geared towards mobility not so much performance . they will never have a mid range / high end performing chip because their main focus is balancing battery consumption. So you either dont know what u need or you are flat out looking at the wrong item for your use.Samus - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link
Calling Core Y an Atom is a stretch.The slowest Core-Y ever produced, the m3-6Y30, outperforms the fastest "Atom" ever produced...the C2750, and completely crushes it in single threading (3 times faster) because of the Core microarchitecture roots.
If you are having trouble separating your Atom obsession from the Core-based Y parts, because they aren't "good" enough to call Core in your mind, then think of it as an in-between, not an Atom, not a Core (although it really is a Core, down to the chipset)
Danavl - Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - link
I have the i7-7Y75 from the earlier model XPS 13 2in1 and it's Amazing! Definitely not comparable to Atom or even the previously Core-M branded processors.I get a consistent 10+ hours battery life, work daily as a IT professional with 50+ chrome tabs open, Office, Adobe, the usual, and at home use it for Netflix and light gaming, Minecraft, etc. and performance is excellent.
Samus - Thursday, August 30, 2018 - link
I have a Core-Y based Surface for traveling and I couldn't agree more, even as a first-gen Y part, it is plenty fast and the battery life is very good.