There are just two models with AMD and HiDPI displays:
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3,
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14. It seems that the laptop market simply ignores AMD's mobile CPUs for middle-, high- end laptops.
Source: I own a T14 AMD. I am pretty happy with it after 13 years of MacBooks and returning a MacBook Air M1. With 8 cores it's fast for development and the fan is not very loud (nowhere near as loud as Intel MacBooks),
Lenovo does not sell ANY AMD-equipped Thinkpad in Spain as of right now because they are all sold out [1]. The Ryzen 7 version in particular was sold out a mere 1 week after launch and hasn't been available since.
To add insult to injury, they have announced 5 new thinkpads (X1 Titanium Yoga, X12 Detachable, X1 Yoga Gen6, X1 Nano, X1 Carbon Gen9) but all of them are intel-based. [2]
[1] https://www.lenovo.com/es/es/laptops/c/LAPTOPS#view-all
[2] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/events/ces/products#laptops
That's frustrating. I am in the Netherlands and when I decided to buy it, I picked it up the next day. It's also in stock now:
https://www.coolblue.nl/product/862275/lenovo-thinkpad-t14-2...
Interestingly, it's now 60 Euro more expensive than when I bought it. I guess the new lockdown drives prices up due to people working from home?
But, if I need a laptop from the company, I'd definitely look into the AMD series of ThinkPads, if I could get a good Arch Linux experience with it.
It's much much less noisy that my work laptop T480s. The fans don't run too often, and I find them very discreet.
> with extensible memory and replaceable NVMe SSD
Not only that, but there is a WWAN slot that you can add an additional NVMe drive to. You can find 512GB 2242 form factor drives on AliExpress for about $50. There are 1GB ones for about $100. That's my current experiment. Hoping to dual boot Windows and Linux.
But this thing has an ethernet port. In 2021. And all the other ports you'll ever need. Mine came with an Intel Wi-Fi 6 card installed in a slot which would appear can be upgraded or replaced as well. Just insane utility. I even like the soft feel of the case more than the cold aluminum of the Macbook.
It seems that's changing from this year's lineup, looking at Asus and Acer and Lenovo. Intel partners like Dell are not in my buying list.
Before Ryzen 4000 / 2020, you could pretty much only get budget laptops with relatively cheap chassis, abysmal screens (1366x768!), low-end graphics, spinning disk HDD, that sort of thing.
Starting in 2020 Ryzen 4000 you started to get reasonably good 1080p Ryzen laptops, but they seemed quite artificially limited to RTX 2060, rarely over 300 nits, often 16GB or lower, no more than 144Hz in most cases. If you'd shuffle over to Intel, you'd find RTX 2080, 500 nits, 32GB, 300Hz screens, and QHD/4K.
Already in 2021 we're seeing (announced) QHD screens, up to 360Hz, RTX 3080, 32GB.
(I've been looking for high refresh and prefer gaming laptops, so I'm less clear on what's available in business laptops with 4K, etc.)
At least this generation seems to have far more OEM wins which will hopefully result in better displays.
AMD CPUs weren't really compelling for high end in mobile until the Zen2 Ryzen 4000 APUs released last year. There weren't a lot of high end models to update to put that in, so it took a while to get those chips into nicer models.
TSMC supply limitation and pandemic induced demand for computing devices doesn't help.