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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by nly on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:16AM (#25791162)
Equivalence between desktop and mobile chips is largely make-believe anyway given the different thermal and power envelopes.
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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by waheoo on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:27AM (#25791271)
It's about knowing when you buy a "new laptop" in the store that it has current gen chips.

The amount of times I find old gen Mac's sold at new gen Mac prices in stores is disturbing.

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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by soperj on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:22PM (#25793350)
Didn't most new gen Mac's have old cpus in them anyway? I remember the Air going like 5 years or something without a refresh.
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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by kllrnohj on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:10AM (#25791811)
The difference in thermals and power really just impacts boost clocks. It's not a very significant difference otherwise, at least not in the CPU space and especially not in single-core performance.

A max-draw zen3 desktop core is only 20w. You'll see that in these laptops, or near enough to make no difference.

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