This could have saved me having to carry a bulky charger. Next time!
Here's something exotic soon to be released with AMD:
Really making me question my choices here. Should have just bought her a Lenovo.
You could always cancel your pre-order, get your deposit refunded, and just buy the Lenovo. You could also get a 13th gen Intel Framework 13 right now.
I've pre-ordered a Framework 13 AMD. I'm not as worried about it because I only placed the order recently and I'm across all of the issues.
Not really. They've shipped three iterations of their Intel laptop (11th, 12th, and 13th gen Intels). The Framework 13 AMD and Framework 16 AMD laptops are their first AMD products.
The Framework 13 AMD started production a couple of weeks ago:
https://frame.work/blog/now-available-in-taiwan
They'll start shipping them soon.
> Their shipping countries list is small.
Framework is still a small company. They'll add more countries as they grow.
The brief was "exotic". I delivered exotic.
This is about the EU, it's no surprise that Intel continue to be monopolistic and abuse the market in a market that makes no attempts to control abusive companies.
I ended up just replacing the battery on my old laptop in the meantime. TBH the only reason to upgrade would be the screen
[1] during the covid era; here's one example from Feb '21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuoHW5EiJdQ
Yes, some vendors tried to put a good CPU in a budget chassi, worst screen you could find, no battery life, terrible build quality etc. No shit it didn't sell.
And not sure what "bad experiences" here amount to, has nothing to do with what CPU was inside but most probably the brand of the device. And that might partly because the vendor had no experience in that ecosystem and had to do much from scratch or whatever.
But most likely they just didn't put in the effort (if the poor build quality and components didn't already tell you that), which kind of makes sense given the weird situation we are in.
How much of that can be attributed to intel, and how much can be attributed to vendors having absolutely no vision and no desire to make anything but literal safe crap, I have no idea.
But, even if intel didn't do anything wrong I wouldn't be surprised with the outcome. It is not like the ecosystem for intel hardware is great either. It took decades before microsoft gave up and launched their own Surface-line of computers simply because all the combined efforts of all manufacturers could barely produce anything of value.
Just as google had to launch their own Pixel line because all other vendors would just produce crap that people then associated with android.
As for problems it’s usually reliability issues with power management, network and occasional crashes. And that’s from big brand integrators like Lenovo. You just don’t get the same poor experience with their Intel parts.
I mean when we bought a huge chunk of T14s recently, an actual factor in the decision analysis was “not the AMD variety”.
It might be hardware, it might be software but no one has the time or energy to dig through that.
Anecdotally I built a Ryzen 3700X workstation from scratch a couple of years ago. Nothing but trouble. Some days it wouldn’t even boot until the third attempt. And that gets to decision makers and they make decisions.
And when you get a bad batch "from Intel" you don't exactly ditch Intel do you? No. Ditch Lenovo if they can't make computers.
You are completely missing the point.
My biggest complaint is that it's even harder (or possibly more confusing) to work out how to get an AMD running ECC RAM than it is for Intel, and that's saying something.
AMD or whatever crap Dell put in to keep AMD the cheapest crappiest option, perhaps contingent on “marketing funds” from Intel?
If you build it yourself you can get a fast stable AMD desktop. Prebuilts tend to be shitty and I wonder why…
It was eventually OK for Windows users but for Linux users you had to settle for a cheap wifi chipset in any AMD laptop. I finally managed to at least find a mediatek chipset instead of qualcomm, but I really would like an intel wifi chipset with a Ryzen CPU.
And don't even get me started on high resolution, or touchscreen monitors.
Unless you want to run an access point of course, I have no idea abou that.
Most people have no idea what AMD or Intel — let alone a CPU — is. It seems plausible that AMD isn’t popular because the average consumer isn’t demanding it.
But, more people know the name Intel from those Intel stickers on those old laptops people used back in the day.
So because those worked fine for them, they just choose to ask for the same name, making Intel over AMD.
I'm sure there are more factors than just these that make Intel the most popular CPU brand, but this is the best one I could think.
Manufacturers were not able to design equivalent servers due to pressure from Intel, or need to delay equivalent or more powerful AMD platforms.
AMD is still has more PCIe lanes and better for high bandwidth requiring tasks like dense GPU computing.
The examples cited in the article:
>Specifically, the Commission cited examples where Intel paid HP not to sell AMD-powered business PCs to small and medium businesses through direct channels from 2002-2005. It also paid Acer to delay the launch of an AMD-based notebook from late 2003 to early 2004. Intel also paid Lenovo to push back the launch of AMD notebooks by six months.
For decades, AMD/ATI have been sold to me as "like Intel/nVidia, but cheaper". I've fallen for that trick several times and I have always regretted my purchase.
AMD will never get any money from me ever again. Perhaps I'm not the only one.
GPUs: terrible, awful drivers and compatibility.
I say this as an AMD fan who is very happy with my 5900X/6900XT system.
The exact reason why I stuck with Nvidia since buying a 1080. I got it for the perf, but I stayed with Nvidia for the drivers.
I don't really see the issue, there are Ryzen think pads I could order right now.
> Try this: find me an in-stock 2-in-1 Ryzen 7 or 9 metal case laptop with high nits 2k+ touchscreen, no discrete GPU, great backlit keyboard, a large battery, and a spare M.2 slot.
Maybe it just that your tastes are not that common.
cough Acer Swift X
Try this: find me an in-stock 2-in-1 Ryzen 7 or 9 metal case laptop with high nits 2k+ touchscreen, no discrete GPU, great backlit keyboard, a large battery, and a spare M.2 slot.
Or try to find anything bizarre or exotic (like those laptop with 2 screens instead of 1 + keyboard). Nothing with AMD, ever.
Almost all are / were easy to find in Intel flavor. Have fun trying to put your hands on any worthwile AMD product.