* an UHD 770 gpu rather than a Xe (understandable-ish as many want dedicated GPUs anyhow)
* no Thunderbolt 4, only USB4. way way less connected & capable.
See, for example, https://wccftech.com/review/intel-core-i9-12900k-core-i5-126...
this, to me, constrains the desktop from being a good movipe partner to the great laptops available. at least usb4 mandates host-to-host networking, but all these great laptops with desktops lagging so far behind, having such lower standards, is excessively sad, to me.
atm phones are way far behind. no usb4 (with host-to-host networkingl nor tb4 are avialbable. i have a hard time imagining phones remaining market segmented out, not participating, in the good, not meeting the new bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Graphics_Technology#Twel...
Also, so far they've only put Iris Xe on 4-core/8-thread laptop CPUs; all their high-core-count laptop CPUs have the same reduced-execution-unit pattern as the desktop ones. To me, there seems to be some tradeoff between integrated graphics and CPU performance.