I recently reviewed the Alienware 16X Aurora with its Arrow Lake based processor and the Alienware 16 Aurora with its Raptor Lake based processor, and both were branded as “Series 2” chips— neither were Lunar Lake ! That started me down a rabbit hole: What exactly does Intel’s “Series 2” CPU branding mean these days? When Intel unveiled simple branding for its “Series 1” CPUs, it was clear what we were getting. With “Series 2” and the...
