- Jan 8, 2011
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Shop Intel® Evo™ Laptops
Meet the Intel® Evo™ platform, a new fleet of powerful sleek laptops with 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and Intel® Iris® Xe graphics.
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What Is Intel Evo? A Recipe for the Most Portable, Longest-Lasting Laptops
Supplanting the company's "Project Athena," this new set of requirements with a consumer-friendlier name challenges laptop makers to produce tomorrow's most efficient Windows laptops.
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Intel Evo laptops: What you need to know about the latest Ultrabook platform brand
Intel's new 12th Gen mobile processors take the Evo platform brand to the third edition. Here's what you can expect from laptops wearing the badge.
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Physical design factors come into Evo, as well. Intel notes that it provides its partners with guidelines for thin-bezel designs to maximize screen area while reducing footprint. (This requirement is expressed as screen-to-body ratio.)
For a laptop to receive the Evo badge, it must have an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 or Core i7 CPU with Intel Xe integrated graphics. Sorry, Core i3; you're cut. If it has one of the right CPUs, the laptop must hit these KEI targets (from Intel) as a minimum:
There are, of course, some addenda to these rules.
- Consistent responsiveness on battery.
- Wake from sleep in less than 1 second.
- 9 or more hours of real-world battery life on laptops with a Full HD display.
- 4 or more hours of battery life in a 30-minute charge on laptops with Full HD display.