DELIVERING THE INTEL
Guy Cocker
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IT MAY BE GREEN
on the cover of this issue in honor of the colorful Geometric Future Model 5, but inside these pages, it’s very blue. That’s both a reference to Intel’s corporate color, with the new Core Ultra chips leading our cover build and the reviews section, but also the sense of malaise that’s greeted this new generation of CPUs. Judged in isolation, Intel’s new chips are powerful and very efficient. But when you stack them up against the previous 14th-gen chips, which are more powerful and a lot less expensive than their upgrades, they’re quite difficult to recommend.