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> It seems that the laptop market simply ignores AMD's mobile CPUs for middle-, high- end laptops. It seems that's changing from this year's lineup, looking at
by llampx 6y ago
> It seems that the laptop market simply ignores AMD's mobile CPUs for middle-, high- end laptops.
It seems that's changing from this year's lineup, looking at Asus and Acer and Lenovo. Intel partners like Dell are not in my buying list.
- neogodless 6y agoYeah I think the OEM landscape is rapidly evolving for AMD. Before Ryzen 4000 / 2020, you could pretty much only get budget laptops with relatively cheap chassis, abysmal screens (1366x768!), low-end graphics, spinning disk HDD, that sort of thing. Starting in 2020 Ryzen 4000 you started to get reasonably good 1080p Ryzen laptops, but they seemed quite artificially limited to RTX 2060, rarely over 300 nits, often 16GB or lower, no more than 144Hz in most cases. If you'd shuffle over to Intel, you'd find RTX 2080, 500 nits, 32GB, 300Hz screens, and QHD/4K. Already in 2021 we're seeing (announced) QHD screens, up to 360Hz, RTX 3080, 32GB. (I've been looking for high refresh and prefer gaming laptops, so I'm less clear on what's available in business laptops with 4K, etc.)
- posguy 6y agoEven during the Ryzen 2000 generation you could find reasonably priced laptops with 1080p screens, though the compromise would be a tiny SSD or spinning rust.