If you're looking for a larger laptop, this one from LG is on sale at Amazon for $599.99, which is $100 less than directly from LG.
The laptop also has a decent CPU, but is relatively large, and I think the 16" 16:10 display is good for productive work.
Specs:
- AMD Ryzen™ 7 7730U (2.0 GHz, Boost up to 4.5 GHz), L3 Cache 16 MB - Octa(8) Core
- AMD Radeon™ Vega Graphics
- 16GB RAM (LPDDR4x 4266 MHz) Dual channel
- 512GB M.2(2280), Dual SSD slots (NVMe Gen3)
- Intel Wireless-AX200 (WiFi-6, 2x2, BT Combo)
- 14.02" x 9.78" x 0.64" / 3.63 lbs
- 16" WUXGA (1920*1200) 16:10 NTSC 45% 250 nits anti-glare screen
- 72Wh Battery
- Windows 11 Home
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Dell: XPS, Latitude 7000 and 9000 series
HP: Envy, Spectre & Elitebook 1000 series;
Lenovo; Yoga 9 and Slim 9;
Asus ZenBook Pro X, Proart, Expertbook
Etc.
Not a coincidence. No one can tell me that PC manufacturers are not in bed with Intel. AMD had the best overall (efficient, CPU & Graphics Power) APU since the 3000 series and surpassed Intel with 6000 series, and moreso now with Zen4 7040 series.
I saw the highly rated LG Gram laptop. I did some research but I am still not impressed with any laptop from LG.
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Dell: XPS, Latitude 7000 and 9000 series
HP: Envy, Spectre & Elitebook 1000 series;
Lenovo; Yoga 9 and Slim 9;
Asus ZenBook Pro X, Proart, Expertbook
Etc.
Not a coincidence. No one can tell me that PC manufacturers are not in bed with Intel. AMD had the best overall (efficient, CPU & Graphics Power) APU since the 3000 series and surpassed Intel with 6000 series, and moreso now with Zen4 7040 series.
There is nothing stopping AMD from doing the same thing but they clearly do not do much.
When Intel Meteor Lake releases in 11 days from now, there won't be much reason to buy AMD 7000 series unless it is priced dirt cheap. AMD will no longer have an advantage in power efficiency or on the GPU front while being found in far lower supply and only in 2nd tier designs.
There is nothing stopping AMD from doing the same thing but they clearly do not do much.
When Intel Meteor Lake releases in 11 days from now, there won't be much reason to buy AMD 7000 series unless it is priced dirt cheap. AMD will no longer have an advantage in power efficiency or on the GPU front while being found in far lower supply and only in 2nd tier designs.
Intel has nothing to offer that AMD hasn't offer as yet except for the efficiency route which is their only marketing ploy for 14th gen meteorlake. AMD has their upcoming 8050 series as well so they not resting on their laurels. Being fanatic for either side is pointless. Just looking for the better overall product and that has been AMD from since 3000/4000 series. I was Intel fanboy before so moving on from fanaticism helped me.
Intel has nothing to offer that AMD hasn't offer as yet except for the efficiency route which is their only marketing ploy for 14th gen meteorlake. AMD has their upcoming 8050 series as well so they not resting on their laurels. Being fanatic for either side is pointless. Just looking for the better overall product and that has been AMD from since 3000/4000 series. I was Intel fanboy before so moving on from fanaticism helped me.
As far as Meteor Lake goes, we don't need to speculate too much since it comes out in less than 2 weeks but I think there is pretty good reason to think it will do very well. The architectural changes in it show that Intel is finally taking power and battery life seriously. The ability to switch off the CPU and GPU dies entirely and run low and idle loads on the LP E cores located in the SOC chiplet and also decode videos without even having the GPU die on will do wonders for the kind of use that most laptops do for most of the time. (Think web surfing and watching Netflix, Youtube, etc). Combine that with Intel also no longer using an inferior process node for the first time in years and it should be a huge boost in efficiency.
As far as Meteor Lake goes, we don't need to speculate too much since it comes out in less than 2 weeks but I think there is pretty good reason to think it will do very well. The architectural changes in it show that Intel is finally taking power and battery life seriously. The ability to switch off the CPU and GPU dies entirely and run low and idle loads on the LP E cores located in the SOC chiplet and also decode videos without even having the GPU die on will do wonders for the kind of use that most laptops do for most of the time. (Think web surfing and watching Netflix, Youtube, etc). Combine that with Intel also no longer using an inferior process node for the first time in years and it should be a huge boost in efficiency.
It's not a conspiracy, it's just supply chain robustness and prioritization. If you are selling 2x as many Intel machines as AMD machines, it makes sense to prioritize design and marketing for the Intel machines.
LG could have put the cooler and more efficient AMD mobile platform in something far nicer like the Gram chassis that you see the Intel products in, but they don't and they can't because that design was jointly engineered by Intel and they are required to use it for Intel HW only. Intel works with many of the OEMs to bring a more premium end product to market with an Intel HW platform inside it. This actually has a huge influence on what platforms end up in which products. If you think this is not the case, you clearly have not worked in the industry.
PC OEMs have very thin margins, they will not allocate the kind of funds needed to come up with premium product designs on their own, they rely on reference designs from the CPU and platform vendors. Intel simply spends a lot more than AMD on bundling their CPUs with nice reference designs that OEMs can pick up and use for Intel based consumer devices.
I don't think that AMD model can.
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