> Some motherboard makers have gone ahead and included it, but so far, AMD laptops with Thunderbird 3 remain elusive.
I assume the author means Thunderbolt 3 here.
Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
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#52I'm convinced there is a conspiracy that prevents laptop manufacturers from shipping AMD chips on 13" high end laptops. Almost every (every?) AMD laptop I find is some 14-15" clunker with a garbage screen. I've had to put off buying a new macbook because of the shitty keyboard situation and all laptops (mac/pc) because it appears Intel's newest CPUs are still vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre. A highend 13" AMD based Li…
Aren't AMD processors (and virtually every processor with speculative execution) vulnerable to Spectre?
Yes and no. Most of the vulnerabilities are Intel-only and only a few apply to AMD as well.
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#53> Some motherboard makers have gone ahead and included it, but so far, AMD laptops with Thunderbird 3 remain elusive. I assume the author means Thunderbolt 3 here.
Yes. I made that typo so many times....one slipped through....
Edit: Fixed now!
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#54> Ultramobile, slim, and desktop replacements No! I want proper thick modular 17" desktop replacement with 256GB RAM. Platform that would replace old Thinkpads.
We're the "nonexistent" market of IT consultants with high incomes that need a high-end laptop. As a third-party to my clients, I cannot rely on the availability of external monitors, keyboards, docking stations, or WiFi. I lug around a heavy Clevo laptop with a 17" 4K screen, 2x RJ-45 ports, quad-core 4 GHz CPU, and 64 GB of memory. These are my minimum requirements, and practically nothing meets it any more! Clevo…
PC Specialist have some nice custom built 17" laptops. You can configure them with 4k displays, 8 core i9's and 64GB Ram, might be worth checking out. Looks like they have RJ45 ports as well.
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/octaneVI...
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#55"There needs to be display options well above FHD/1080p."
With a 13 inch screen, 1920x1080 is at the pixel density (150) where someone with 20/20 vision won't notice pixellation from a distance of 24 inches. Even with a 15 inch display (density = 128) you're still pretty damn close. Realistically, it would make no difference in usability to go beyond 2560xwhatever in resolution on a laptop, and even that's already getting excessive. Most people with high res displays are already using magnification, which defeats the purpose of such high resolution.
I'm using the new Honor Magic Book with Ubuntu Mate installed and am quite pleased with it. Lightweight, good battery life, good screen, good touchpad (SUPER IMPORTANT), USB-C (only one port, unfortunately), dongle-free HDMI, and enough power for development. And the price can't be beat.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've thought about making (well, more about 'having' it to be honest) a 'semi-portable' computer for people like us. Basically a briefcase that when folded open would 'swing out' two screens. Maybe you would fold it over so that the rest of the case (where the mobo etc are are in) would work as a stand for the monitors. You wouldn't be able to use it on a couch or plane but it would give you a vastly superior experie…
There are vast untapped markets that are being totally ignored. As in, you can't vote with your wallet because there's literally nowhere to put your money. Very few laptop manufacturers allow key customisation (e.g.: using laser engraving). None allow a choice of keyboard (e.g.: with or without a keypad, with or without dedicated ins/del/home/end/pgup/pgdn keys, separate arrow keys, [fn] button left or right of [ctrl…
There has to be small manufacturers in the US. In Spain I know this two guys: https://www.mountain.es/en and https://slimbook.es/en/ and I've been pretty happy with their products.
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#57FFS, I hope they do this. I waited almost a year for a Lenovo that came out with single channel RAM, and got an HP instead.
Screen was only FHD, and keeping Linux working on it has been painful.
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#58Microsoft recently offered a model of the surface lineup with a ryzen mobile processor. That can't count for nothing right?
It's not high-end at all. Only 8GB Ram, no dedicated GPU, no PCIe 4.0 drive..
It’s worth noting that neither AMD nor Intel’s latest notebook CPUs support PCIe 4.0. I imagine that won’t be coming until the next generation. Also, you can configure the Surface Laptop 3 being referred to with up to 32GB of RAM: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/configure/Surface-Lapt...
Re: Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would appreciate a high-end 15" AMD "clunker" with an amazing screen, though. Preferably a ThinkPad. But such a thing is nowhere in sight either, no? I can't work with laptops smaller than 15".
Lenovo has a bunch of AMD ThinkPads (X395, T495, and T495s at a 14" size, E595 at 15") with Ryzen 3000 series CPUs, but the 15" model is from the E series which isn't one of their high-end series. The T495 and T495s seem to be a really nice machines though, even before a Ryzen 4000 refresh: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-T495-Review-bu... - quote: "Overall, we have to admit that the ThinkPad T495 is th…
I skipped on these as the one I was going to get had single channel RAM, have they fixed this ?
Re: Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
#60I'm convinced there is a conspiracy that prevents laptop manufacturers from shipping AMD chips on 13" high end laptops. Almost every (every?) AMD laptop I find is some 14-15" clunker with a garbage screen. I've had to put off buying a new macbook because of the shitty keyboard situation and all laptops (mac/pc) because it appears Intel's newest CPUs are still vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre. A highend 13" AMD based Li…
There's really no conspiracy. Hardware builders just have other requirements. If AMD"s laptop chips were really better so far (this is actually very debatable), they were by a slim margin for some use cases. Not enough to offset existing business agreements with Intel, the more mature Intel laptop platform (it's more than a CPU, but also motherboards and wireless chipsets) and Intel's more mature - and already existi…
>> Not enough to offset existing business agreements with Intel
Translation, Anti-Trust violating agreements that Intel has been guilty of in the past