I am willing to spend big bucks ($2500 or more) on a Zen3 laptop with GDDR5 RDNA2 that lighter than my current laptop. I'll be patient enough to check Linux support before ordering. So many people complaining on social media or forums about bad Linux support but they never check before buying. I hope that i don't have to wait more than 2 years for Rembrandt.
I've tested the waters with my relatively cheap Dell Latitude 5495 (Ryzen 5 Pro). Got it for ~$780 USD in South Africa with customs duties and tax. There was no option to not include Windows which I never used, so it could have lowered the cost. It came with M.2 drive so I just added an extra 8GB RAM. Dell gave official Linux support. Overall I am very happy with it, the keyboard is awesome and the build quality is extremely good considering the price.
My first choice was an expensive HP Spectre X360, but wasn't sure about Linux support and I needed a laptop urgently but could not get the X360 without importing it myself. I tried contacting distributors that do not sell to general public nobody supplied a Zen based model at the time.
I have noticed many people are going the WSL2 route just to get better hardware support. I believe in open source and hope that Zen3 and RDNA2 works as well as Zen+ and Vega worked. Having full hardware support in mainline kernels improves quality of life and productivity.
Edit: Added Rembrandt to avoid confusion with currently announced series.
I've tested the waters with my relatively cheap Dell Latitude 5495 (Ryzen 5 Pro). Got it for ~$780 USD in South Africa with customs duties and tax. There was no option to not include Windows which I never used, so it could have lowered the cost. It came with M.2 drive so I just added an extra 8GB RAM. Dell gave official Linux support. Overall I am very happy with it, the keyboard is awesome and the build quality is extremely good considering the price.
My first choice was an expensive HP Spectre X360, but wasn't sure about Linux support and I needed a laptop urgently but could not get the X360 without importing it myself. I tried contacting distributors that do not sell to general public nobody supplied a Zen based model at the time.
I have noticed many people are going the WSL2 route just to get better hardware support. I believe in open source and hope that Zen3 and RDNA2 works as well as Zen+ and Vega worked. Having full hardware support in mainline kernels improves quality of life and productivity.
Edit: Added Rembrandt to avoid confusion with currently announced series.
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