Hardware

This is the 4CU Z1, not the more interesting 12CU Z1 Extreme, for anyone wondering.

The author isn't particularly clear about this, equating it interchangeably (within the very first sentence) to both the 4CU ROG Ally and 12CU Lenovo Legion Go. Towards the end, they state that the Z1 is "still firmly below the Ally," the latter of which can be had in both Z1 and Z1E variants.

Admittedly, AMD isn't particularly helping the situation with their disparate naming conventions, but still. Different performance tiers.

I thought the Z1 series were supposed to optimized for lower TDP targets for tablets, doesn't this defeat the purpose?

The Z1 series are not a great investment, they don't get updates from AMD like the 7000 series gets.

Buy the 7840 line instead.

What do people use these things for

Granted, it's the same Phoenix 2 die, but why use a "specialty" SKU like the Z1 instead of something like the 7440U?

Oh AMD, no amount of different naming to that one lone monolithic die you have is gonna distract from the fact that it’s the same thing.