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The battery drain while lid closed and the firmware brick issues are totally unacceptable. Also, it seems as if AMD based laptops in general have been crippled

• neogodless 5y ago
  This has been improving greatly. I never owned an AMD based laptop before 2020, but when Ryzen 4000 came out, I got excited. Then I waited... and waited. In that first year, discrete GPU maxed out at RTX 2060 while Intel laptops would get RTX 2080 (mobile, of course.) Screens were all 1080p while Intel laptops paired with 4K, and they were often lower refresh rate (i.e. the 240Hz gaming ones were all Intel). Brightness was often 250-300 nit with any AMD laptop, but Intel offered some with 500 nits. Keyboards were lucky to be backlit, let alone per-key RGB! Those were some of the most recognizable differences (specific to my shopping), but others were here and there. In 2021, things shifted. The highest end gaming laptops were often available with the AMD CPU (APU), with 300Hz screens, higher brightness, etc. Intel still makes Thunderbolt an effective Intel-exclusive, even though it's technically feasible on AMD laptops. But laptop OEMs have started taking AMD much more seriously in the past couple of years. (Eventually I got a Lenovo Legion 5 - just over $1k with a Ryzen 4800H, 16GB, 512GB, 144Hz 300-nit 1080p screen, RTX 2060 6GB. Of course the options are a lot higher end now, but also a lot more expensive!)