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They are cheap. I bought an Asus Zenbook 14 OLED for $699. It has 14 inch 120 Hz OLED screen, 16 thread Intel i7. Solid build quality throughout. Metal exterior, very good keyboard and trackpad.

It doesn't have a discrete GPU, but I don't game on it, so it is not needed.

You can play games on Intel HD graphics. Even my 8th gen NUC does Vulkan and runs plenty of games just fine. At least the crap old games and emulators I want to play.

Depends on the competition - intel was serving up dual-core so-called i5's and i7's on mobile until AMD looked to finally bring something competitive.

The most recent of those were 5W TDP "Amber Lake" CPUs from 5 years ago. To my recollection, AMD had nothing to offer in that space at that time, and as far as I can find AMD has not ever shipped a 5W mobile SoC with any number of cores (Geode notwithstanding).

For example, a quad-core CPU has dropped from ~$330 to ~$100 and it's ~40% faster.

And it took about ten years to go from one OLED to a small embedded display in a stereo.