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AMD Renoir (4xxx) (Zen 2) #128

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Why/User Benefit/User Problem

Notebooks with AMD 4000 series processors APU

Description of the feature

Great energy savings, great power. Much better than their Intel equivalent. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/cores/renoir

eduncan911 commented 4 years ago

Please this. It also shaves off a hundred or two dollars.

I hate paying the Intel tax, as well as the backdoor taxes. Even with Coreboot, Intel still requires proprietary blobs loaded.

briggs1978 commented 4 years ago

I have to imagine it's already on the horizon, but very much this.

eduncan911 commented 4 years ago

I've literally been asking System76's Twitter for almost a year:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%40eduncan911%20system76%20amd&src=typed_query

Dmole commented 4 years ago

The competition is looking tempting

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen5-4500u&num=1

eduncan911 commented 4 years ago

The competition is looking tempting

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen5-4500u&num=1

Yes, especially since Lenovo can be ordered with Linux now and not paying the Microsoft tax.

Coreboot is also available for many variants of AMD, so there had been partnerships between them. Now rather Renoir is included in those specs I do not know.

https://doc.coreboot.org/search.html?q=Amd&check_keywords=yes&area=default

Excluding the coreboot "feature", which can be implemented later with a BIOS update, there's no reason not to offer AMD.

Especially for those of us that run Qubes, with about a dozen VMs running on the system at any given time - almost always in use at the same time. The nice phat 35W 4700GE 8C/16T CPU really is attractive here for many hundreds less than Intel's offering.

ghost commented 3 years ago

https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1286457590289858560?s=20

eduncan911 commented 3 years ago

Well, the Pangolin has been announced! Guess we can close this thread now. :)

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

But still 1080p. Dammit!!!

Pop_OS! has been the best 4k distro I've ever used (on non-System76 machines). Perfection. But, no 4k available to buy?!?! Argh...

ghost commented 3 years ago

Well, the Pangolin has been announced! Guess we can close this thread now. :)

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

But still 1080p. Dammit!!!

Pop_OS! has been the best 4k distro I've ever used (on non-System76 machines). Perfection. But, no 4k available to buy?!?! Argh...

Yass! see you people : https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/143

dylangerdaly commented 3 years ago

Looks like everything is closed tho, UEFI + EC is all closed :-1: