I recently bought a Lenovo Legion 5 (4800H, 512GB, 16GB, 1660ti) for around $1200 after checking the 4700u ideapad. This was before the Ryzen 5000 series launch, so I suppose the Legion 5 is around $900 mark these days.

Many OEMs don't really give a good thermal headroom for the AMD processors, and only Lenovo seems to have done it right.

Lenovo's stock management sucks though. There were no stock for many days, and had to go unorthodox methods to get my hands on a unit.

Keep in mind only four of those cores on the M1 mac are performance cores. A M1 Mac with 8 performance cores would blow that thing out of the water based on how close they already are.

It would consume more power too.

It's remarkable that AMD can even compete despite not having access to 5nm like the M1 does.

I'm very excited for the near future of 5nm AMD laptops. Even more for 3nm.

It seems incredibly likely that such a product would be reserved for the highest end models for example the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro starting at 2400 and 6k respectively and would be properly compared to high end laptops that like the example don't exist yet.

It's nice to see the CPU space heating up in recent years.

I bought my m1 MacBook Air for $800, and while it doesn’t have 512gb nvme or 16gb ram it compares a lot better than ‘half the price’

How's the heat? My Inspiron 5505 w/ a 4700U gets egg frying hot under load.

(edit: Not precision, is inspiron.)

What exact model did you get if you don't mind me asking?

huh, apparently price went up $150 since I bought it https://www.newegg.com/lenovo-flex-5-15alc05-82hv0000us-grap...

edit: wow price went way up actually - I paid $790 https://i.imgur.com/aBamY5l.png