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Re:New MacBook Air by lliamander on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:24PM (#22619017)
You might be interested in the ThinkPad P1 (Gen 2). It has the option of not including a dedicated GPU, which will save a considerable amount on battery power, while still packing in a 6-core i7 H-series processor.

But I am also interested in the upcoming processor generations.

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Re:New MacBook Air by dr_zoidberg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:19PM (#22619655)
Thanks for the suggestion. I was willing to wait a bit more to see that standoff: What will get me more bang out of the processor, the "super" architecture of Zen 2, or the coveted AVX512?

The P1 comes with a 9th gen i7, I assume they'd eventually get a gen 3 with 10th gen i7 and then I'll be able to compare.

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Re:New MacBook Air by lliamander on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:06PM (#22621247)
> What will get me more bang out of the processor, the "super" architecture of Zen 2, or the coveted AVX512?

Bychance, have you seen the article from puget systems on how to use MKL with Ryzen[1]? It explores some of the different trade-offs between AMD and Intel for numeric computing.

[1] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AM...

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Re:New MacBook Air by dr_zoidberg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:52PM (#22621622)
Yeah, I'd seen that, great link! Waiting to see something like that with the mobile processors.
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