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 After a long streak of leaks regarding Intel's 12th gen processors, they have now officially announced the launch revealing confirmed specifications and pricing.  Intel Alder-lake(12th gen) Specs With Alder Lake, Intel raised the core count, but in unusual way. They have now introduced new efficiency cores, a concept popular in Mobile chips. Now some people are questioning this decision as adding regular "performance" cores and letting the scheduler pick the cores essentially yield similar results.  In Intel's defense, they have included "Thread Detector" to help the OS Scheduler to allocate core properly/efficiently(read the product brief here ).  Another noticeable change is the increased L3 Cache size, i5-12600K has now more L3 cache than i9-11900K. There have been conclusive tests proving 6 cores with more cache can catch up to 8 cores in gaming. Thus you can expect significant gaming boost with new processors. Intel also provided some gaming benchmarks...

Asus recently announced availability of their budget TUF Gaming series laptops with Zen 2 based Ryzen 4000 series laptop processors. There's no word about online retailers but it is available at some offline authorized sellers.  There would be two models in this lineup, TUF A15 and TUF A17. The numbers represent screen size of the models. I'm still not sure about the exact pricing at the time of writing this post, but their website mentions "starting from ₹60990". Here are the available configurations of both models Asus TUF Gaming A15 Processor Ryzen 9 4900H(8 core 16 thread) Ryzen 7 4800H(8 core 16 thread) Ryzen 5 4600H(6 core 12 thread) RAM 8GB or 16GB DDR4 3200 (upto 32GB dual channel) Display 15.6in 1920x1080p IPS-level(60hz in base model, 144Hz max) Graphics RTX 2060  GTX 1660 Ti  GTX 1650 Ti GTX 1650 Storage 1TB 5400RPM HDD(optional) 256/512/1TB Nvme SSD(dual M.2 SSD slots available with 1660 Ti or higher models) Battery 3-cell 48wh battery li-po Weight 2.3Kg A...