Dell Alienware launches its first AMD-powered gaming laptop since 2007

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29 points·mfilion··7 comments

I've never heard of Cherry switches on a laptop. Apparently this is the first model with Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile switches:

https://www.cherrymx.de/en/blog/cherry-mx-ultra-low-profile....

Apple's butterfly switch design with String in between for extra Actuation force and 1.8mm of Key Travel. Which is something Apple should have done with their Butterfly.

To be clear this is an AMD CPU with NVIDIA graphics.

As a Linux user looking for a laptop I am fine with an Intel CPU but don't want to give any money to NVIDIA so this is doesn't solve the problem I have.

Hardly as much horsepower as the Alienware, but I have one of these ASUS VivoBook-s[1] which are AMD CPU / AMD GPU, Ubuntu works well on it.

1: https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/For-Home/VivoBook/filter?Sub...

Yeah, when I hear or read the words "AMD-powered", I expect a laptop that's, you know, actually AMD-powered through and through. Dell even already makes a version of its G5 laptop with a Radeon RX 5600M (as I know firsthand, seeing as how one such laptop is sitting on my desk); they really expect me to believe they can't combine an AMD CPU and AMD GPU when they already demonstrate the capability to do both?

C'mon Razer, do a 5600 with 3070! No other skews needed.

Still subpar display :(

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