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Here's an interesting Litmus test: Go into any Staples regular brick and mortar Retail location and look at the Laptops on the showroom Floor and see if they h

Here's an interesting Litmus test: Go into any Staples regular brick and mortar Retail location and look at the Laptops on the showroom Floor and see if they have any AMD laptops on display there! And If they do not then ask the sales associate why. And I've asked and been told that they have AMD options but the AMD laptop has to be ordered online! So do that at Staples and other Office Stores that have brick and mortar retail locations!

CraftThatBlock 6y ago
This is likely due to low stock of AMD laptops in general (they sell like hot cakes). Once stock availability is improved, I would expect to see more in-store stock.
- Farfignoggen 6y ago
  No that's not the issue if Staples does not have any AMD laptops in it's brick and mortar store locations to begin with and only sells AMD laptops online. So that's the issue of not giving AMD's laptops any showroom floor retail presence and gives Intel an unfair advantage! Shoppers are much more likely to purchase directly from the showroom and with AMD's laptops Not stocked at all at the retailer's brick and mortar locations and only Intel's laptops in stock there and Intel's more than likely to get a retail brick and mortar store sale so really the Antitrust folks need to be made aware of this tactic! Staples has no display AMD models to speak of, stock of AMD laptops or not, and Display models are not sold until that model is no longer being sold by the retailer as they are display units! I was told that AMD laptops are only available Online from Staples! Staples is being incentivized it appears!
Match451 5y ago
I’ve been watching whether there are AMD laptops in retail stores for years. I’ve been pretty consistently disappointed. I’d estimate I saw about 10 Intel laptops for 1 AMD for sale. They typically only ever had lower tier stuff if anything at all. Usually the bottom tier APUs. None of the higher range processors that were competitive. It created an image that AMDs processors are only low range. The last time I went to Costco though, they had an HP Envy x360 with an AMD 4700u in it. There was maybe a 1 to 4 ratio of AMD to Intel machines. I think AMDs offerings are too good to ignore at this point.

CraftThatBlock 6y ago

This is likely due to low stock of AMD laptops in general (they sell like hot cakes). Once stock availability is improved, I would expect to see more in-store stock.

Farfignoggen 6y ago
No that's not the issue if Staples does not have any AMD laptops in it's brick and mortar store locations to begin with and only sells AMD laptops online. So that's the issue of not giving AMD's laptops any showroom floor retail presence and gives Intel an unfair advantage! Shoppers are much more likely to purchase directly from the showroom and with AMD's laptops Not stocked at all at the retailer's brick and mortar locations and only Intel's laptops in stock there and Intel's more than likely to get a retail brick and mortar store sale so really the Antitrust folks need to be made aware of this tactic! Staples has no display AMD models to speak of, stock of AMD laptops or not, and Display models are not sold until that model is no longer being sold by the retailer as they are display units! I was told that AMD laptops are only available Online from Staples! Staples is being incentivized it appears!

Match451 5y ago

I’ve been watching whether there are AMD laptops in retail stores for years. I’ve been pretty consistently disappointed. I’d estimate I saw about 10 Intel laptops for 1 AMD for sale. They typically only ever had lower tier stuff if anything at all. Usually the bottom tier APUs. None of the higher range processors that were competitive. It created an image that AMDs processors are only low range. The last time I went to Costco though, they had an HP Envy x360 with an AMD 4700u in it. There was maybe a 1 to 4 ratio of AMD to Intel machines. I think AMDs offerings are too good to ignore at this point.