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I really hope there will be more high quality non gaming laptops with good availability. Especially in the upper tier it seems most manufacturers kept their Intel designs (not sure if due to availability, costs of adapting to the AMD platform, pressure by Intel or a combination of these).

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Based on some recent “previews” it seems that 2021 will have a lot more amd laptops.

Dave2d previewed a pile of asus ones recently . Some are gaming but lots are multi use

https://youtu.be/_o-D-bgXAKM

In January 2020 at CES, Lisa Su said AMD had 100+ laptop design wins. This year she said they had 150+.

I am not sure how this compares to Intel, but I saw two slides for Intel's Tiger Lake and Rocket Lake, and one said 40+ design wins. The other said 40+ refreshed designs.

TBH. The amount doesn't matter. It's about the quality. There isn't a single Ryzen 4000 laptop that I want to buy because all of them either have:

1. Shit screen.

2. Are not 13 inch

I would pay premium for a Ryzen 5800u dell XPS.

Oh I get that! I have different preferences (think HP Omen 15, Lenovo Legion 5) but those weren't available at a good price until late summer (and really only when sales occurred). Anyone wanting QHD or 4K was out of luck last year. Wanting Ryzen but also wanting a 500-nit screen is not a great feeling.

I'm actually selling my HP Omen 15 to my brother because I discovered it uses PWM for brightness, and I have a very high sensitivity - if I turn brightness down from 100% I get a headache within an hour or two. (I mostly prefer 100% brightness but when on battery I'd like to turn it down.)

Fingers crossed 2021 is a big improvement from 2020 for Ryzen laptops.

Bought the missus the Zenbook with the 4700U in for xmas, that has a nice enough screen and it absolutely crushes my thinkpad.

    i7-7700HQ passmark  6988
    Ryzen 4700U passmark  13801
    Ryzen 2700X (my desktop)  17618

The 4800U actually outscores my 2700X desktop.

My next desktop (5950X) would score 45970.

We live in interesting times in the CPU world.

She uses it for youtube.

It is however screaming fast for a laptop.

FHD (1920 x 1080) 16:9 screen. And get this. It DOES NOT have an audio jack. I thought I was being trolled at first.

I am in the same boat. Lets hope this year brings some quality 15inch+ 19:10+ Ryzen Laptops.

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