Getac S510

The first rugged laptop we’ve tested with a Core Ultra chip, and it ticks all the other necessary boxes, too

TIM DANTON

SCORE PRICE £3,995 (£4,794 inc VAT) from ultima-computers.co.uk You know that AI is everywhere when it sneaks its way into a rugged laptop. With the S510, Getac is jumping ahead of rivals such as Dell and Panasonic by not only offering Intel’s Core Ultra chips but complementing them with optional GeForce GTX 1650 graphics. This five-year-old chip still packs acceleration beyond integrated graphics, but not much beyond: the S510’s 3,394 in 3DMark Time Spy is on a par with laptops using Intel’s Arc graphics. However, any apps that take advantage of Nvidia’s CUDA platform will be significantly faster. The NPU built into the Core Ultra 7 165U vPro is modest, to the point where Intel doesn’t even specify its standalone TOPS rating, merely “up to 34 TOPS” for the processor as a whole. It’s…

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