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On a somehow related-topic: I tried to get a laptop at beginning of this lock-down (in Feb) and market was looking kinda bleak. Had my eyes on a Ryzen 7 with 8 GB RAM and 500 GB SSD which went for ~$500 at the time. Boom, gone. Also what's left is only crap that's expensive. Laptops that only 4 months ago were laughed at, now are for those $500 (I mean c'mon, a decade old CPU to pay $500 for a laptop which has that is laughable IMO).

Anyway, coming to this topic, how fast you guys reckon this platform will come to consumers, given the current circumstances? I'd wager is not this year.




I've seen laptops with Ryzen 4800HS CPU in stock at NewEgg and Amazon. Not often at Best Buy yet.

Look for the Asus TUF 506 and Asus Zephyrus G15.


My wife needed a new laptop just recently and she's a ThinkPad-only kind of gal. It was nice to see that there are many AMD options, but you can't buy them. In fact, you can't buy much of anything from Lenovo. Outside of the L13 (what she ended up with), everything is "ships in 5+ weeks" on the Lenovo site.

Having one in stock at NewEgg or Amazon might be helpful, but they are typically base spec with soldered memory. If you want 16G+ memory, you are just generally out of luck.


Don't buy those from Lenovo yet. They do not yet have this new generation of Ryzen chip available. Don't buy a last-gen slow part.




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