Exercise great caution when choosing a laptop next year

…Given the large variations between each suffix - going beyond simple core count and clock speed differences - users must exercise great caution when choosing a laptop next year. And it’s not just Intel, [AMD ](’

AMD is purportedly preparing Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" APUs — Ryzen 7 255/260 set to replace the Ryzen 7 8745H/8845H series | Tom's Hardware

)is also adjusting its existing offerings by re-releasing them under the new “Ryzen AI 300” branding.
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Entire Intel Core 200 laptop lineup leaks out — Intel prepping to launch 22 new mobile CPUs next month at CES 2025 | Tom's Hardware

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I remember AMD doing similar stuff last gen too. I always have a few benchmarking websites open when looking for laptops.

so, soon we will see i9 pro, i9 pro max, i9 pro ultra, :wink:

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I hope we can get Fedora or some other Linux-based OS working on the Snapdragon chips at least lol

I also hope we get more ARM based laptops. Sure, Pinebook and others exist, but they’re either mostly really low-performing for daily tasks, or aren’t all that good quality/price wise.

That way, I can finally have a lightweight laptop that performs good enough for most tasks, like maybe the recently-shown-at-CES Asus Zenbook A14

There is also the performance core and efficiency core thing too. Usually, the manufacturers advertise a laptop as 8 cores or 12 cores, and someone might take it as the regular chips, but i reality ony 4 or 6 of those are performance core, remaining being efficiency cores.