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At least for the laptop market AMD seems to have been issues with distribution, manufacturing, I was looking the Lenovo website for some models and it's hard to find an AMD based one. Out of stock or not available. Feels like when the Nintendo Switch was first launched. Hopefully they will address that soon.

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Supply chains are highly disrupted right now for lots of laptop manufacturers, I was researching laptops for a friend and it seems like many high end models (or really any mid/low volume SKU) are out of production temporarily.

I think it's more a case of demand than production, especially for enterprise-focused laptops like Lenovo's

Just ordered T14 thru gold partner. Spec: Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U with 8c/16t and 32GB RAM. Arrival first week of Nov in Europe. Can't wait to get my toys running on the box - Linux, Docker, VMs.

I don't know if it's higher than normal demand or lower than normal supply, but a lot of the laptop market has been low on stock since summer (if not sooner).

Of course, AMD is supply constrained, TSMC fabs are a bottleneck and AMD isn't the only customer that can easily sell every chip that comes off the fab.

This. If they cant get it under control, it wont effect intel as much as you think.

Some say its yield issues, but who knows. 4900HS laptops are selling out like crazy and not keeping up with demand- New laptops arent using the chips because of lack of inventory. They are absoultely beasts though. The zephyrus g14 absolutely dominates on performance + battery life.

Pitty it hasn't got webcam and pgup/pgdown/home/end keys! It completely disqualifies it for business/programming/wfh work.

I'm waiting for a Dell XPS 15/17 with a 4800u/h but not sure if that ever happens. Maybe I go with the Lenovo T14 as soon as 4800u is avaiable on it.

Custom build amd thinkpads had months backlog, but some of the crappy prebuilt spec ones were ship next day.

I just bought a T495s from their website a few days ago, so your experience must be temporary.

But that's the old generation isn't it? T14 and T14s are the new ones with AMD 4000 which absolutely now dominates laptop CPU performance charts.

Well, drats.

OTOH, T495s works great with Debian stable! I just needed a kernel backport from buster-backports to get graphics to work.

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