Wave Ridge 16 Laptop

Details

The larger Ridge: a 16 inch panel, a twelve-core processor held at 45 W, a 76 Wh battery, a numeric keypad, Gigabit Ethernet and a full-size SD reader. It shares the ten captive screws, the socketed memory and the published part prices with the 14. The cheat particular to a big laptop is that it is often the small one in a wider case. The same cooler, the same 65 W charger and the same 28 W power limit are carried across, so the twelve-core chip on the box drops to eight cores worth of work within four minutes and the buyer never learns why. Beside it sit the usual three: the panel lottery, the up to number, and a battery quoted in mAh with no voltage attached. All four are answered below with figures and the conditions they were taken under. What is actually different here is the thermal module and the power budget: two 12 mm heat pipes and two fans against one pipe and one fan on the 14, a 100 W charger in the box rather than a 65 W one, and 45 W held rather than 28 W.

• Twelve cores, 45 W sustained after thirty minutes at 30 C ambient, measured, with the boost figure beside it rather than instead of it
• 16.0 inch IPS, 3200 x 2000, 120 Hz, matte. Measured 508 nits full-screen white, sRGB 99 percent and DCI-P3 96 percent, Delta E under 2 with the calibration report in the box
• One panel part number for the life of the model. If it ever changes, the model number changes with it
• DC dimming with percent flicker under 3 percent against IEEE 1789, so no PWM at low brightness
• 76 Wh, four cells in series at 15.4 V nominal, 4,930 mAh. Both figures printed
• 8 hours 40 minutes at 60 Hz and 150 nits on documents and browsing. 2 hours 50 minutes at 120 Hz and 500 nits under a sustained twelve-core compile
• Ethernet, a full-size UHS-II SD reader and a 3.5 mm jack kept rather than dropped, because a bigger machine has room for them and dropping them sells dongles
• Two SO-DIMM slots to 96 GB and two M.2 2280 slots, nothing soldered, storage TLC with a DRAM cache at a sustained 1,450 MB/s
• The honest trade is that this is 1.82 kg and it needs the 100 W charger to hold 45 W. On the 65 W charger it runs and charges, but under a heavy load it will draw from the battery while plugged in
• There is no Shuunnya service-centre network. A warranty claim is handled by sending the machine to us, with no turnaround time promised