There’s a reason Acronis True Image (recently renamed Cyber Protect Home Office) has remained our top pick for Windows backup software for years now. It offers all the functionality you would expect: full, incremental, and differential backup options-not just from your PC, but also your phone and any remote shared networks-to just about any destination of your choosing, including removable media. Acronis essentially has it all. The other reason is the elephant in the room: You don’t buy a laptop CPU without the rest of laptop around it, and Intel’s Tiger Lake H is simply paired with more laptops with faster hardware than their AMD counterparts. It’s simply a richer, fuller feature set than AMD’s Ryzen H-class chips.
First, it has the slight edge in performance, giving you a full x16 lanes of PCIe Gen 4, plus support for PCIe Gen 4 SSDs. In the need-for-speed category, it’s a very close race, but we give the nod to Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake H for two reasons. It’s an easy one to argue since you’re getting an unheard-of eight cores of performance in laptops weighing less than 3 lbs. That leaves AMD’s impressive Ryzen 5000 chips as the best CPU for thin and light laptops in 2021. So what’s the winner? There are really two classes of laptops today-really thin and light, and really fast.įor the really thin and light category, we’d be torn between Ryzen and Core i7, but the 11th-gen Core came out last year. Intel’s 11th-gen Core chips hold the high-ground on lightly threaded tasks and performance while on battery, with Ryzen 5000 U beating Intel’s processors in multi-threaded tasks. AMD then followed up with its Ryzen 5000 U-class or low-power consumption chips, which battled Intel’s 11th-gen “Tiger Lake U chips” to a stand still. We first saw the year kick off with AMD’s Ryzen 5000 H-class gaming processors arriving to smash a folding chair on Intel’s elderly 10th-gen H-class CPUs. It’s been a banner year for laptop buyers shopping for powerful CPUs thanks to intense-and we mean intense-competition between AMD and Intel.
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The free version is limited to one device type-PC or mobile. The Premium tier ($3 a month) supports unlimited devices and offers dark-web monitoring for vulnerabilities and emergency access to your account. LastPass is the gold standard when it comes to this essential role. Install the browser plugin, and LastPass serves as a combination password generator, password vault, and form filler, saving you the trouble of memorizing and manually entering any of your often-used credentials or personal information. A Secure Notes feature lets you store sensitive information, like bank account numbers, associated with the various sites you visit. There is simply no excuse for being lazy about passwords-not when a password manager makes using best practices so easy.