Budget wise I found an interesting offer with Meteor Lake (U9 185H). For low load work like browsing it’s fast yet efficient enough with the E-cores in use, even when multitasking and many tabs. For more demanding sustained workloads you need to be plugged in for best performance anyway. The thermals are not the best though; a thin and light laptop with 1 fan and Intel chip that’s not the most efficient > RPM increase / thermal throttling.
Budget wise I found an interesting offer with Meteor Lake (U9 185H). For low load work like browsing it’s fast yet efficient enough with the E-cores in use, even when multitasking and many tabs. For more demanding sustained workloads you need to be plugged in for best performance anyway. The thermals are not the best though; a thin and light laptop with 1 fan and Intel chip that’s not the most efficient > RPM increase / thermal throttling.