TUXEDO Computers Launches Their First AMD Linux Laptop

[phoronix]

Phoronix: TUXEDO Computers Launches Their First AMD Linux Laptop

TUXEDO Computers has launched their first AMD-powered Linux laptop! The excitement quickly faded though when seeing it's not a Renoir design...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=TUXEDO-Book-BA15-AMD-Laptop

[Pranos]

Finally. I think if this/AMD systems sell well on TUXEDO, they will have a bigger focus on it.
And even if its not the latest CPU model, its still a good one and has good out-of-the-box Kernel support.

[CoreAI]

This is great. The price is on the higher side but OOB linux support is good. Pairing a 15W cpu with a 90+ Wh battery in a 15 inch screen is probably going to get the full performance out of the chip. This only needs Ryzen 4000 now and probably also important is dual channel memory.

[Zeioth]

Cool. It would be nice to own an AMD laptop, so I can share QEMU snapshops with my main computer (ryzen 1700).

[gabber]

Last gen and single channel :/

[EvilHowl]

Single channel memory is a deal breaker for me, especially knowing how better APUs do perform when using fast, dual channel memory.

[remenic]

Finally. I think if this/AMD systems sell well on TUXEDO, they will have a bigger focus on it.
And even if its not the latest CPU model, its still a good one and has good out-of-the-box Kernel support.

But how realistic is it that it will sell well with an older generation CPU?

[ayumu]

One gen old and single channel. This is very half-assed.

Nobody should buy this. Please do not support incompetence.

[Slartifartblast]

One gen old and single channel. This is very half-assed.

Nobody should buy this. Please do not support incompetence.

Agreed, bang goes half your graphics memory bandwidth. At least they put a decent 91Wh battery (take note other vendors) in it but that doesn't make up for the glaring dual channel omission.

[_Alex_]

"Pricing starts at 859 EUR for the configuration with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD storage" ...

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