1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,440 The most incredible thing has happened. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:08,240 This is a sponsored video. It is sponsored by Intel, and it is the year 2025. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,960 But guess what? They don't have a bunch of nonsense AI talking points. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,560 Incredible, I know, because we have the new Intel 200H series, 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,920 and it actually looks pretty good. So let's have a look at her. 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:24,800 To show off this new processor, Intel has sent over the Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5, 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:30,800 which, as far as I can tell from the spec sheet, is a very capable little beast. 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,320 I don't know why I said little. It's actually pretty big. That's a pretty sparse box. 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,120 We just get the laptop, a charger. We don't even get a little quick start guide 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,080 that tells us to plug it in and turn it on. Unbelievable. 11 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,520 All right, this is probably going to be a powerful boy because we have a 100 watt charger, 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,560 which is being delivered over USB-C, which I absolutely love. 13 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:56,680 There are so many other laptops that come with nonsense magnetic chargers 14 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,360 that cannot connect to your phone and everything else that you own. 15 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,720 And getting a 100 watt USB-C charger is sick. 16 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,960 Looking at the device itself, it is very laptop-looking, 17 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:12,680 but I do really like this finish. We have an aluminum cover, 18 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,960 and if I go and smear my greasy little hands all over it, 19 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:20,360 it's actually rejecting the fingerprints really quite well. 20 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:25,280 Look at that. Looking at the IO, we have full-size SD card reader, 21 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,520 two USB type A's on the left side, 22 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,000 HDMI 2.1, two Thunderbolt 4s, 23 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,280 and 3.5 millimeter audio. Now it should be noted that the 200H series 24 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:40,920 is capable of doing Thunderbolt 5, but from what I have heard from laptop manufacturers, 25 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,600 you need to have your own little chip to support that, and Lenovo has not done that in this case, 26 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,240 which, oh well. Very few things support that at the moment. 27 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,360 I noticed that the power button's on the side here, normally means it's convertible, 28 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,640 but this doesn't look like a convertible, and it's not. 29 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,280 Oh, here we go. I was saying that I missed the Quick Start guide, 30 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,560 but we have it right here, so power connector. 31 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:07,760 Also, it very clearly has turn-on with opening the lid, 32 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,080 and they also want you to sign up for their premium warranty. Wow. 33 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:15,200 Oh wait, you can switch the refresh rate with just a button. One sec, one sec. 34 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,400 Function R, 120 Hertz. 35 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:20,600 Function R, 60 Hertz. 36 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,720 120 Hertz, there we go. We're getting ahead of ourselves here though. 37 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:31,320 How heavy is this thing? I'm thinking 3.9 pounds, 4.2 pounds. 38 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:35,440 Actually, I'm going with 4.2 pounds as my final answer. 39 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,120 Ah, 3.8 pounds, which is very impressive 40 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,120 for a laptop like this, and also what I guess the first time 41 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,280 that I should have stuck with it. Let's have a look at the build quality here. 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,680 Here we have an all-aluminum chassis that feels, I have to say, really quite good. 43 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:57,080 I'm giving it quite a push here, but it is barely moving. 44 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,280 That is very nice and solid. One thing that I also quite like 45 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,440 is we don't just get a keyboard, but we also get a numpad. 46 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,080 Does the quality of this chassis translate into a good typing experience? 47 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:10,160 So let's find out. 48 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,920 The keyboard is fantastic. It has heaps of travel, 49 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:23,440 and also the keys are very consistent. And even though they do have a little bit of wiggle 50 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,920 if you want to, it doesn't matter because there is so much travel 51 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:30,200 and it's so far above the chassis that none of that matters. 52 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,000 I'm going to give it a solid A. Down below the keyboard, we have our trackpad. 53 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,160 It is glass top. It feels really quite nice, 54 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,960 although it does have a traditional click mechanism instead of some of the fancy force touch ones 55 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:46,320 that you will find on other Lenovo devices. In here for performance, 56 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,960 we get the Intel Core Ultra9 285H, 57 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:55,080 which is the top of the new 200 series processor. This thing gets you 16 cores. 58 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:59,440 And of those 16 cores, you get six performance, eight efficiency, 59 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,440 and two low power efficiency to make sure that it doesn't just drain itself 60 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,440 when you're doing very, very little things on battery. 61 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,840 It also goes up to 5.4 gigahertz boost clock. 62 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:14,480 And that is the main difference between the stack is the boost clocks 63 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,240 until you get down to ultra fives. Where you do lose two performance cores, 64 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:21,600 bringing the total down to only 14. 65 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:29,440 For memory, we get 32 gigabytes. That's running at a blistering 8533 megatransers per second. 66 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,200 We also get a one terabyte Kyoksia NVMe SSD, 67 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:39,680 Intel Wi-Fi 7. I'd love to see that. I really, really appreciate Intel's Wi-Fi implementations. 68 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,880 They are the best in my opinion. We also have our NPU, 69 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:48,040 which only does 13 tops instead of the like 40, 50 70 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:52,160 that you need for a co-pilot plus certification. But that does not matter 71 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,300 because we also have the Intel Arc 140T GPU. 72 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,880 This has eight GPU cores. And in talking to Intel, 73 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,880 they are basically like, we had to decide between whether or not 74 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:08,480 we got the co-pilot plus certification or you got good gaming performance. 75 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,680 And on this rate here, they have dedicated that die space to the GPU, 76 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:18,120 meaning that it games. Probably the most exciting thing about this GPU 77 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,880 isn't just that they have raw performance increases, but they have also doubled the cache, 78 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,400 which with any luck will help us with the sort of 79 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,720 stuttering that I saw in some of the previous Gen Intel Arc chips. 80 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,120 And this one right here should be quite a bit more stable. 81 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:38,600 Before we get into our comparisons, I just want to take a moment to shout out this display. 82 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,600 It fricking rocks. 83 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,860 This right here is an OLED panel, and it is so bright that I have just blown out the overhead. 84 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:52,200 I am really sorry, Andrew, but it goes up to 1,100 nits. 85 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,360 We measured it also that it goes up to 1080 nits 86 00:05:56,360 --> 00:06:02,760 in actual fact, and it keeps on going up to a 33% window at that brightness. 87 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,400 Now, of course, if you have the entire display showing light, 88 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:12,360 it goes down to 585 nits, which is not nearly as good as 1,000, 89 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:17,080 but unless you're getting flash banged constantly, I don't think it's going to matter. 90 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:21,960 It also has 100% coverage of DCI-P3, which we did confirm in our testing. 91 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,480 There is no touchscreen, but at the same time, I'm not super mad, 92 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:31,000 because I have seen so many OLED screens get completely ruined by a bad mismatch 93 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,120 between the touchscreen digitizer and the OLED panel, 94 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,480 because they'll use a touchscreen digitizer that was made for LCD, 95 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,640 so we put it on OLED, and boom, it looks like crap. 96 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:46,680 This right here certainly does not, though. It only goes up to 500 nits with SDR, which is the standard. 97 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,440 Max brightness, damn. 98 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,160 How the frick did they manage to get 1,100 nits 99 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,200 out of an OLED? Oh, there we go, look at that. 100 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:04,360 You can't really tell on the camera too much, but the way that that sun is coming out of the clouds, 101 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,680 man, it looks great. This being an Intel-sponsored video, 102 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,880 we're just going to be testing Intel versus older Intel specifically, 103 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,320 in this little Dell Inspiron right here, which has an Intel Core Ultra9 185H. 104 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:25,480 We did our best to match the TDPs, and the results, Intel improved it, wow. 105 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:32,720 In the games, on average, the new processor is 20 to 25% faster than the old one, 106 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:39,920 which is very excellent. In Cinebench, we also saw a 28% performance 107 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,160 uplift in multicore, and almost just as impressive, 108 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,360 the performance on this guy does not drop off when you have it on battery, 109 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,400 at least in the performance mode on battery. Oh, wait, the performance mode are we in? 110 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,480 All right, function Q, cold mode, no. 111 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:01,240 Battery saver mode, no, we're plugged in. Performance mode, there we go. 112 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,240 There also is a geek mode, which gives you a little bit more power, 113 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,600 but we're not going to be using that because you have to go into Lenovo software 114 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:14,520 to get it, and it sometimes makes it slower. All right, we're 1800P, which is way higher 115 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,840 than I would suspect that you should be doing on integrated graphics, but we're just going to roll with it 116 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,000 because we currently have 70 FPS, 117 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,240 meaning that when I get scored on by bots here, it is my fault and not the computers. 118 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,640 This is going really quite well, I have to admit. 119 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,720 At this kind of a resolution, I was not expecting at all for it to be able to hold up, but it is. 120 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:44,360 It looked great while doing it. Have I mentioned yet that I really like OLED panels? 121 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:47,280 I need to score. I'll do it right now. 122 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,720 Oh, let's say you've never scored on ShortCircuit. 123 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:59,100 I have scored many times on ShortCircuit, and because this Intel powered laptop is so great, 124 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:04,320 I did it once again. For integrated graphics, it's great, 125 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,400 and other times on Intel integrated graphics where I've had good frame rates, 126 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,760 it has not been playable because the 1% lows have been trash, 127 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,120 but they seem to have fixed that in this generation, at least in Rocket League. 128 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,600 If you're not quite getting the frame rates that you want, though, this also supports XCSS too, 129 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,800 and we can see here that Cyberpunk is running 30% faster 130 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,480 than the last gen thanks to the beefed up XMX engines. 131 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,920 All right, let's have a look at the webcam here. To do a little peel. 132 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,880 And also one thing that I really appreciate that Lenovo has included is a little switch 133 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,920 for your webcam so that if you don't want people looking at you, they can't. 134 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,560 All right, let's have a look at the webcam here. It is definitely grainy, but this 1080p webcam 135 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,920 seems like it is able to compensate pretty well. This is very dark, very bright, 136 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:56,040 but it is exposing for my face, even if it's a tiny bit blown out there. 137 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:01,000 Moving around here, is it able to figure it out? I am not that white, IRL. 138 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,560 There we go, it might be February, but it's not that bad. 139 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:11,320 Around here, yeah, it's doing a pretty decent job. I will say that this is an adequate webcam, 140 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,760 and you can judge the microphone with my voice right now. 141 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,880 All right, let's give these speakers a bit of a sniff here. 142 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,240 It says it has Dolby Atmos on it. 143 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,080 Atmos requires speakers above you and behind you, 144 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:31,480 and normally nine of them. So I don't really know how we're gonna get Atmos out of this, 145 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:38,200 but maybe they sound good. Okay, it definitely sounds clear, 146 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:42,240 but it also sounds like there's not gonna be a whole lot of bass when it drums. 147 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,520 I can tell in the snare drum there's not a lot of bass. That's not a good sign. 148 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,880 It's okay, but it is definitely thin. 149 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:01,120 There's not a whole lot going on in the low end with this at all, but at the same time, it isn't crushed, 150 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,960 it isn't just like a bunch of nonsense vibrating, 151 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,280 so maybe if we turn it down a bit, it'll... 152 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,960 Nope, there's never any bass. 153 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:16,040 But it's a laptop, what can you expect? Nine T5 screws later, which by the way, 154 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:20,200 are not all the same length, so maybe put them in a little nice magnetic parts tray 155 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,800 like you can in the LTD Precision Screwdriver set, 156 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,680 and we are in, I think. 157 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,480 Yeah, easy, ow. Oh, there we go. 158 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,200 In here, we can see that the upgradeability is about what you expect in 2025. 159 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:42,960 The RAM, of course, is soldered. You can get nowhere near those kind of speeds with Sodems. 160 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,000 In here, we also have, it's definitely normal-sized SSD right here, 161 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,320 and if you want an actual full-size one, there's another expansion spot right over here, very nice. 162 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,200 And down here, we also have an 84-watt-hour battery, which an hour testing was able to get us eight hours 163 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,920 and 28 minutes of battery life. We did test that compared to the old one, 164 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:07,560 and it turns out the Dell has much better battery life, but I don't think that is new-gen Intel problems. 165 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:10,600 It's, this has an OLED screen problems, 166 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,960 which takes a lot of battery. So I genuinely have no idea what this little board does, 167 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,680 so if anyone in the comments can tell me, that would be greatly appreciated, 168 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:24,640 because I genuinely have no clue what it is. 169 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:29,640 As spec'd, this Lenovo Idea Pad Pro 5 is 1500 US dollars, 170 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:36,000 which is pretty good. You get plenty of RAM. That OLED display is fantastic, 171 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,400 and you can look at it down in the link below if you want to get one. 172 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:42,960 Thank you so much to Intel for sponsoring this video. I hope that you guys enjoyed it, 173 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,200 and I hope that you hit like, get subscribed, and have a great old day. 174 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,600 I'll see you in the next one.