Re:MacBook Air M4
by paulgerhardt on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:08PM
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The Asus ROG Flow Z13 with 128gb unified memory and the AMD Ryzen AI Max amu would be my first non-M4 laptop pick. Surprised how under-reported this device is.
Dave2D did a glowing review of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVbm2a6lVBo
Hope lenovo ships the amd max in a P1 type laptop. I have an almost 5 year old thinkpad P1gen2 with Core i9, 64GB, 2.5Tb disk, T2000 discrete GPU, 4K oled touch display running Linux. Something similar that runs LLMs faster would be nice. The GPU is limited by only 4GB. Also, something that does not run out of battery power in less than 2 hours.
"Ryzen AI" has to be the worst name for a line of general purpose CPUs ever conceived.
Everybody keeps talking about it, must do wonders for marketing. By now everyone must know that AMD has a wonderful chip with a horrible name.
Well everyone keeps talking about the CPUs because they're great CPUs.
Or the Intel Lunar Lake processor.
Both have extremely good laptop options - the Lenovo Yoga Aura edition is pretty much macbook quality.
And runs LLMs (https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm/blob/main/docs/mddocs/Over...)