Basic laptops aren’t supposed to do this. Intel’s new CPUs say otherwise

Before Intel’s new Panther Lake chips busted through the door, laptops without discrete graphics had clear limits. Integrated graphics were fine for some things. Streaming videos or running older games? Sure, why not. But for anything really GPU-heavy, like playing the latest shooter, laptops will struggle.

That’s what Panther Lake is starting to change, especially the models with Arc graphics. Suddenly, integrated graphics aren’t bound by such hard-and-fast rules.

The old reality

Back in the day...