[GTALUG] ThinkPads on special

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jan 22 14:27:51 EST 2020


On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 12:23:43PM -0500, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> Amd has no CPUs that are powerful enough in terms of performance and power
> in RYZEN to compete with i7s currently for laptops. It will be fixed in the
> 4000
> series to my knowledge and is the last area for AMD to become truly
> competitive
> again outside of AVX-512 support in the data center.
> 
> Maybe that explains it better as Asus as started switching over their end
> high laptops
> to Ryzen with the 4000 series at CES this year,

The T49x and T59x are identical in almost all specs except screen size.
There is no good reason not to offer a 15.6" version of the T495.
Most T590 are i5 not i7 as far as I can tell unless you order the higher
spec machine explicitly.

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Len Sorensen


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