How to know about 1 generation second generation laptop?

[Naseebullah Amir]

I have desktop I wanna buy a laptop so I should be well aware of 1 generation and second so on so for ?

 

[i7Baby]

I'm not sure if I follow. Are you talking about tracing the family's history?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

I think he's referring to Intel's core i series CPUs.

If it's three digits (e.g. i7 840QM), it's 1st gen. After that, it's the first of the four numbers (e.g. i5 3217U is 3rd gen).

 

[i7Baby]

Who knows on this forum. I just had a guy asking how to contact dominoes pizza lol

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Let's just say that we have a thread full of posts like that, and that's fairly mild....

 

[i7Baby]

Maybe we could put a 'best of' together