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People criticising the AI talk, remember that they achieved great CPU performance improvement by adding AI to the look aside buffers.

Looking forward to even more efficient Zens, my next laptop will definitely be an AMD

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I've been using a Zen2 notebook for the past few years, and was honestly surprised by the processors performance for the first... 3 or 4 months. Then typical updates happened. And some quirks got in the way too. Like it having a decent iGPU that I can't use because the BIOS will only let me pick one of them (down to it not having a mux to pick one or the other? Not sure what's going on there, just that I can't do it). In general it's a great machine, but there's a host of little details that make the experience a bit worse than it should be.

Per my usual update schedule, I'm looking down the line to at least a Zen5(+?) upgrade in a few years time, so I hope they improve this kind of things in the future. However that's entirely up to OEMs deciding to make a good product, and a bit out of AMDs grasp.

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