Need a laptop with some serious horsepower? These laptops with Core i9 and Core Ultra 9 chips won't disappoint. Intel's top-tier CPUs come from the Core i9 and, more recently, Core Ultra 9 brands.

The good news: the Intel Ultra 9 265H is a lot more powerful than the original Ultra laptops we reviewed. Its single-core ... one problem: you can’t always be sure if apps will run. At all.