This almost certainly would have been more competitive with a i7-7560U instead of a i7-7500U (the former has 2x the graphics execution units and 64MB eDRAM). Sa

This almost certainly would have been more competitive with a i7-7560U instead of a i7-7500U (the former has 2x the graphics execution units and 64MB eDRAM). Same TDP. The only reason I can think to put an NVIDIA dGPU is for people who need CUDA.