Sadly my Thinkpad x1 yoga 3rd gen runs rings around this core i9 and it has the ultra low wattage 8th gen I7. I bought this for a project. It is underwhelming -tbh. Beautifully spec’d but will throttle and gpu will give out requiring a reboot when doing any intensive video encoding. And the lack of ports really sucks. Sure -get a dongle but like I said at the beginning of the post -my thinkpad really runs rings around this core i9 “beast”.