Ryzen Laptop 2024?

[Zack Birlew]

Hey, everybody, I was looking up laptops for high end work and I'm just seeing a complete lack of options. Intel's complete catastrophe on the 14th generation processors immediately kills any idea of buying one of those and AMD is touting new Ryzen AI chips but none of the laptops seem to be available. Even specialized laptops from Puget Systems and Falcon Northwest use Intel so I'm kind of at a loss. Does anybody have any recommendations? The goal is to avoid an unstable system and even the top end Intel laptop chips seem to be affected by the manufacturing defect debacle. Is it really going to have to be a wait for 2025 to be able to buy a laptop again?

 

[M Harvey]

The obvious answer would be the Apple MacBook Pro line.

I’m guessing you don’t want to hear that, but I’ll just point out that it has become fairly easy to run a multi-operating system environment for many purposes, so it might be worth taking a look.

 

[Zack Birlew]

That may very well be the short term solution, Harvey, we will mostly need them for offload and review of 8K R3D and 12K BRAW and light editing tasks, basically field laptops. It's really wild that the laptop market has fallen apart with barely any customization and really limited hardware compared to desktop and server systems. I remember the heavy duty desktop-level systems that maybe only lasted an hour and a half but provided all the power for real work on the go. Hopefully some manufacturers come to their senses and bring us some heavy duty Threadripper Pro laptops to change the game.