Intel Corp (INTC)

[The_Trooper]

That's a better balanced design that delivers what was promised from Core-M, a fanless genuine Core experience.

Why did you remove this part from your quote?

As a side note though, performance in Chrome is poor. In fact, Chrome takes a much higher toll on this hardware, pushing the CPU to max-load when streaming video from Youtube or even when casually browsing, and that leads to choppiness. From what I’ve read, Google decided to always stick to the VP9 codec when it comes to handling videos in Chrome, while IE/Firefox rely on the older H.264/265 codecs and that seems to help a lot (see this link for more details on these codecs). But that doesn’t explain what happens when browsing through ordinary pages with no videos. So for now, I could summarize that Chrome is just not optimized for this Intel platform and that takes it toll when it comes to both performance and battery life. Until that’s getting fixed, stay away and go with IE or Firefox.

It's an important point for those of us who use Chrome, don't you think?

I find this performance issue disturbing. I don't want to buy a machine that poorly runs existing code, no matter what the reason is.