Microsoft is not the first to do this either. Huawei's new MateBook X laptop also achieves this with a Core i5 (7200U) and a Core i7 (7500U) too - again, neither are Y-Series chips.

Core i5-7200U Core i7-7660U Battery consumption; Time: Five hours and one minute: Five hours and fifteen minutes: 81 percent: In a battery run-down, the Core i7 lasted slightly longer than the ...

While the 45W quad-core CPU is obviously going to be faster in most respects, the Core i5-8250 is far and away the better CPU over the Core i5-7200U. Obviously benchmark results are going to vary ...

The benchmark result shows the new Matebook scoring 3651 points in the single-core test and 6738 points for the multi-core test. Huawei MateBook "Pascal" aka PL-Wxx w/ Intel Core i5-7200U, 8GB RAM ...

The model we tested had a Core i5-7200U CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD, for a total of $650 or £750 (converts to AU$873) and other configurations start at $499, £600. A noble attempt to mirror ...

It’s equipped with a 7th-gen Kaby Lake Core i5-7200U, 8GB of LPDDR/1866 in dual-channel mode; a 1920×1080, non-touch, IPS panel; and a 256GB Lite-On NVME M.2 SSD. I reviewed its predecessor ...

Our Surface Laptop review unit arrived with an Intel Core i5-7200U processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB solid state drive, options that push the price up to $1,300.That’s a lot, but it’s not ...

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-7200U; 8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1,866MHz; 128MB (dedicated) Intel HD Graphics 620; 256GB SSD: LG Gram 13: ...

Despite the slight clock speed advantage, the Core i5-7200U does consume slightly less power than the 6200U under full load, we saw a 2-watt reduction here.