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Laptop Vendors Are Left Sitting On the Sidelines Waiting For the Next Waltz To Start (pcper.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Intel's delayed release of a new processor is going to have a noticeable effect on the laptop market this year. As there is little chance of seeing anything new until towards the end of this year, laptop designers will not be able to offer new models for the holidays and will instead have to rework existing products. DigiTimes suggests we will see trimmed down models with lower price tags to try to entice consumers into purchasing something, as they expect lower demand than we saw last year. Hopefully some gaming machines may become more affordable, or we will start to see models incorporating AMD's new chips become more common.

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  1. One wish list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My wish list would be:

    1) Ryzen processor.
    2) long battery life
    3) AMD graphics (plays nice with free software)
    4) sweet price point

    Other stuff like SSD and generously expandable memory go without saying.

    I have Intel fatigue. I'm tick-tocked out.

  2. Laptop vendors are can do more than new CPUs... by ctilsie242 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Laptop vendors can do more than new CPUs to bring some usefulness and features. Being able to have an OS in ROM would be handy, if only to have a way to restore an OS without having to worry about recovery media. If a Tandy MS-DOS clone back in the 1980s can do this, so can a PC vendor. Other things come to mind as well, be it the ability to charge (albeit slowly) on USB-C for beefier laptops, allowing for multiple USB chargers to charge a battery at the same time, built in vitualization and encryption so one can have their gaming stuff, their work stuff, personal stuff, and stuff nobody should see, all on one laptop, perhaps using something like PhonebookFS to further hide the presence of other VMs.

    Another idea would be to have better support for external GPU breakout boxes. That way, one can go from running command line stuff to Crysis fairly easily, as well as providing fast access to additional storage.

    CPUs are nice, but there are still many things that can be done to differentiate one's product from everyone else.