4700U is not a bad processor at all - the issue is with poor driver quality and support, that is so typical for AMD. Bad BIOS - everything locked. Even for Windows Inetl&Nvidia drivers are much more stable than AMD. SO here I am not even sure what is better - get 4700U or wait for 5XXXU something. From one side the platform that is on the market already have a good chance that drivers will be fixed and general Linux support will be in better shape. And that for sure so for Intel world - if you get the "latest and greatest" hardware prepare to meet bugs everywhere and wait for sometime before they will be cleaned.
But in case of AMD I can not be sure that they will not abandone Renoir series as they are - half-unusable - and focuse on Cezanne or Rembrandt or watever will come next. Too many diferent products in the bucket , and from what I see now AMD has focused on one thing only - GAMES. If you play games, if games is all you do and all yoiu need - then AMD is a good choice. In terms of gaming performance per watt AMD is very good. But as far as battery life in non-gaming tasks matters - documents, spredsheets, programming , web browsing etc - AMD is way behind. If they want to compete with intel on laptop marked they will have to do something about it, the more laptops are in use the more real battery staticstics is known. You can design "special" tests showing power efficiency - but that can do nothing with the real experience while using the laptops. Unfortunately the share of linux users with AMD laptops so far is very small now, so all the hope is that some of the windows driver code will be finally ported to linux....
But in case of AMD I can not be sure that they will not abandone Renoir series as they are - half-unusable - and focuse on Cezanne or Rembrandt or watever will come next. Too many diferent products in the bucket , and from what I see now AMD has focused on one thing only - GAMES. If you play games, if games is all you do and all yoiu need - then AMD is a good choice. In terms of gaming performance per watt AMD is very good. But as far as battery life in non-gaming tasks matters - documents, spredsheets, programming , web browsing etc - AMD is way behind. If they want to compete with intel on laptop marked they will have to do something about it, the more laptops are in use the more real battery staticstics is known. You can design "special" tests showing power efficiency - but that can do nothing with the real experience while using the laptops. Unfortunately the share of linux users with AMD laptops so far is very small now, so all the hope is that some of the windows driver code will be finally ported to linux....
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