The Asus Zenbook S 14 delivers a solid performance thanks to the new Lunar Lake processor, has a fantastic battery life, and its ceralumium finish is delightfully durable yet lightweight. However, expect to pay up for the laptop's excellence, and be ready to buy a USB hub as this things doesn't have many ports.

So with that in mind, Intel Core Ultra 200 series sports up to a claimed 1.5x better graphics performance thanks to the 2nd generation graphical cores and improved ray tracing capabilities. In fact, Intel has gone in so hard on this that the company has made sacrifices elsewhere for it (more on that later).

Long-lasting battery life is one of the key selling points of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus ARM processors. However, Intel's brand new Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors claim up to 50% lower power consumption than the previous generation, which was enough to make for some interesting competition for Qualcomm.