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It pisses me off that AMD does either low/cheap laptops or extremely gaudy gaming machines. There's this high performance ultrabook niche that I wish they could make inroads to.

It is impossible to find: AMD + high resolution screen (3840x2400) + 120hz + OLED. In the last year even the Intel ones downgraded though, everyone went 3200x2000 @ 120hz OLED.

It's just frustrating when you're looking at upper-end AMD laptops and you cannot find 16GB of memory, or a decent screen. I'm glad they can dish out $500-$800 laptops, but I don't know why OEMs are always pairing the good components with Intel.

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It must be a coincidence..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel#Allegations_by_the_Europ...

Two years ago I got the AND advantage edition chipset in HP Omen. 5800 gpu, 6600M navi + dmbedded vega, 32gb ram 3200, 16” QHD @165Hz, 1Tb nvme + extra nvme. This was Stock, I just added an extra 1Tb nvme drive. Cool snd quiet. Even has full size cursor keys, and a row for home/end and friends, including prtnscrn. And lots of expansion ports.

AMD do offer solutions, its the vendors that ignored Navi and insisted on supplying power guzzling 3060 instead. Blame the customers for that.

Good laptop with 3 flaws - should have been 16:10, and the touchpad driver is terrible, and power supply is a brick. Fix these and you would have had oerfect laptop.

Have you seen the modular offerings from https://frame.work/

Given the nature of their laptops, even if the laptop you want isn’t there yet it’s only a matter of time before you get the module that you want

Really I have the most trouble with getting a high-end GPU and high resolution screen on an AMD laptop. Framework is great, but doesn't offer what I'm looking for.

Need me some 2160p or 2400p @ 120hz OLED. I'm often in hotel after hotel after hotel and I don't have a docked setup. I just have the 1 laptop. Certainly not toting around a high-end portable monitor for this need, you can't find 120hz OLED anyway. Another poster linked how Intel influenced what OEMs were offering with AMD CPUs and I think that's exactly what's going on. When you go to Dell.com you can very easily see the many options for Intel-CPU'd laptops, and the handful or less of AMD options for screen configurations, hard drives, memory, or graphics cards. It's just very fishy.

> It's just frustrating when you're looking at upper-end AMD laptops and you cannot find 16GB of memory, or a decent screen.

This is not correct. Just looking at Lenovo (and surely, there are similar machines from other brands), even a mainstream laptop like the Yoga 7 14" AMD ships 16 GB, and it has a 2.8K OLED display as option. If you want more, the T14(s) can ship with 32 GB and matte display.

You are right, but 2.8k is them again gimping AMD. We should be expecting 2160p minimum.

Also check Asus Zebook line, they have models with AMD CPU, OLED hidpi displays and 16GB/1TB.

AMD doesn't make laptops, take it up with Acer, Asus, Lenovo, etc etc.

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