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HP Pavilion Plus 14 Ryzen 7 laptop review: Changes in all the right places
(www.notebookcheck.net)
Holy shit it's real
An actual zen 4 non-gaming laptop
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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Lenovo has a bunch already, but more is welcome in this case.
available in the US? i only see some thinkpads with horrible soldered wifi cards
Checking their website again, I see that I wasn't looking closely enough at the Ryzen model numbers, considering that the 3rd digit now indicates the generation. The only Zen 4 laptops I saw from Lenovo were ThinkPad, Legion, and LOQ. The only one out of those that is non-gaming is the ThinkPad. The ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 was reviewed recently (I forget by whom, maybe NoteBookCheck) and it was found to be overall better than its Intel counterpart.
However, as you've noted, the wifi cards are soldered in. Horrible decision by Lenovo.
The Radeon 780M is mostly a rebranded Radeon 680M
It most definitely isn't.
so whats the difference?
Performance uplift?
Totally different architecture RDNA3 vs 2
And performance difference in percent?
Up to about 20%, especially due to increased efficiency.
The Lenovo Ideapad 5 is still going to be a better purchase. 32GB RAM at 6400MT/s, 7840 processor with the 780M, and actually reasonable storage (a terabyte, not perfect but at least it's not the useless 512GB most standard laptops offer).
another model not available in the US. as always most of the good AMD stuff is vaporware