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For what it's worth, I tend to upgrade my wife and I's laptops every 1-2 years, usually during Black Friday sales. Two years ago, I snagged laptops with a 32GB

For what it's worth, I tend to upgrade my wife and I's laptops every 1-2 years, usually during Black Friday sales. Two years ago, I snagged laptops with a 32GB RAM, RTX 4070, and i9-13900HX for $1,500. Historically I've been able to get a sizeable bump in CPU + GPU performance for around the same price point, but currently there's nothing on the market. It _feels_ like the pace of development has slowed in the last few years. I don't think I'll be upgrading again until consumer X3D CPU laptops become available for a non-egregious price.

bhouston 2y ago
> It _feels_ like the pace of development has slowed in the last few years. If you stick with Intel you are artificially holding yourself back. NVIDIA is is optimizing for datacenter thus its stuff is not available to consumers except at inflated prices. Apple has consistent and significant speed improvements with each new M-series chip and their offers have not been increasing in price for the equivalent offers - e.g. Mac Mini and MacBook Air. AMD is doing pretty well as well, especially which high core counts. Although with the new tariffs, everything is going up in price but that is not related to Moore's law but Trump's economic policies.
- gavinray 2y ago
  That's a fair point about the Apple ecosystem. I'm a Windows + WSL Linux and Android guy so I'm not knowledgeable about the ecosystem but from the HN announcements I've seen posted they appear to doing well. There are only two laptops on the market with X3D chips right now -- the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 and the MSI Raider A18HX. Both of them have Ryzen 9 7945HX3D chips and the mobile RTX 4080's, and are priced equivalently at $2,500. Once I can snag something similar for the $1,500-1,800 range is when I'll upgrade.