When the HP ZBook Ultra G1a landed in the WindowsForum.com labs, sporting the newly minted AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo" system-on-chip, anticipation was sky-high. This mobile workstation, bristling with 12 Zen 5 cores and Radeon 8050S integrated graphics, represents the cutting edge of...
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The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" SoC, featuring the Radeon 8060S integrated GPU, has recently been subjected to comprehensive performance evaluations comparing Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 25.04. These tests, conducted on the HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop, reveal that Ubuntu 25.04 not...
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A Tale of Two Operating Systems: Unmasking the Intel Lunar Lake Xe2 Experience
In today’s world of increasingly competitive graphics performance, Intel’s Lunar Lake platforms have started to make waves, even on Linux. Benchmarks comparing the Intel Xe2 graphics on Windows 11 versus Ubuntu 25.04...
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AMD RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics have long been a topic of interest among Windows and Linux enthusiasts, and the recent testing on a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with an AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SoC provides fresh insights into how far driver optimizations have come. In a head-to-head comparison of...
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Ubuntu’s latest release is stirring up excitement—not only among Linux enthusiasts but also for those Windows users who dabble in dual-boot setups or leverage the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The forthcoming Ubuntu 25.04 brings a host of enhancements that promise to smooth over...
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