• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    3 months ago

    Honestly I was and am, an AMD fan but if you went back a few years you would not have wanted and AMD laptop. I had one and it was truly awful.

    Battery issues. Low processing power. App crashes and video playback issues. And this was on a more expensive one with a dedicated GPU…

    And then Ryzen came out. You can get AMD laptops now and I mean that like they exist, but also, as they actually are nice. (Have one)

    But in 2013 it was Intel or you were better off with nothing.

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      3 months ago

      Indeed, the Ryzen laptops are very nice! I have one (the 4800H) and it lasts ~8 hours on battery, far more than what I expected from laptops of this performance level. My last laptop barely achieved 4 hours of battery life.

      I had stability issues in the first year but after one of the BIOS updates it has been smooth as butter.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah I never really considered them before Ryzen, but even afterwards, it’s been very difficult to find one with the specs I want.