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71. AMD & Intel’s Laptop Revolution: Renoir, Ultrabooks, Thermal Design | OEM Product Manager
Broken Silicon
English - October 21, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 269 MB - ★★★★★ - 255 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A product manager at a MAJOR Laptop OEM joins Tom to discuss the past 15 years of Laptop Innovation…and where we will go in the next 5 years. The Ultrabook Revolution, Ryzen 4000, Zen 3, Ampere Mobile, Tiger Lake, and the trade-offs in laptop design are all discussed.
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0:11 Who is our guest? What is a Laptop Product Manager?
6:11 How COVID-19 affected IT Businesses
9:11 Do businesses find Desktops useful anymore? Docked Laptops?
17:59 When did laptops stop being so awful?
26:33 Was the “Ultrabook” movement important, or just buzzwords?
31:13 Trade-Offs in Laptop Design: Batteries, cost, weight, perf, etc
37:53 “Gaming Ultrabooks,” or “Creator Laptops.” Is this a threat to AMD’s APU initiatives?
43:41 Can we have more USB ports? Where are the 1440p laptops?
58:10 Did AMD Renoir surprise OEMs? Intel's advantages over AMD?
1:10:10 Why do OEMs use cheap thermal paste?
1:16:45 How will laptops innovate over the next 3-5 years?
1:33:05 What type of laptop do we recommend? External GPUs?
1:41:00 Will windows continue to dominate OEM laptops?
1:44:05 OLED Screens in laptops
Putting Renoir Performance in perspective: https://www.techspot.com/review/2018-amd-ryzen-4800h/
The Laptop Tom will evaluated (not recommended YET): https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-envy-laptop-15-ep0098nr
Mini LED doesn’t sound cheap: https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-unveils-pg32uqx-4k-144hz-mini-led-hdmi-2-1-gaming-monitor