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That’s one I’ve been looking at. My wife had a Lenovo Thinkpad for work and hated it which is all that’s making me hesitate. However, she’s not a tech nerd and a thinkpad is a totally different beast than the Legion series.
Thoughts on the Legion Pro 5 (AMD), 5i (Intel), or 7i (Intel)? If I were to choose, I’d probably lean toward the 5 for the AMD over the Intels.
Thinkpads are workhorses, but come in many flavors and can be burdened by decisions they make like buying the cheapest models or loading it up with security software.
I manage Lenovo thinkpads and like them. I bought a legion slim 7i and like it.
If I were to do it over I’d make sure that I was getting the latest cpu. While it’s plenty fast for my needs the intel cpu I bought was lesser to the amd at the time. The most recent intel CPUs are about equal in performance to amd but are more efficient. The amd CPUs have better multithreading performance but are not as efficient.
This is very true about the thinkpads. She’s in academia, so probably had a specific budget that didn’t quite cover what she wanted.
The reason AMD rules the gaming world when it comes to CPU is the large L3 cache of their X3D line of cpus.
That large L3 cache isn't found when looking at their mobile cpu offerings on Lenovo Legion, f.e. amd ryzen ai 7 350 comes with 16MB cache compared to Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 255HX with 30MB.
Depending on budget I would be more interesting in ensuring I get at least 12GB VRAM on the GPU than caring about AMD or Intel on the CPU side.
Interesting. I didn’t know that info about the L3 cache, but it makes sense. I wonder why it doesn’t take advantage on laptops? Space issues/cost savings not allowing for it?
Heat iirc, they changed design with latest Zen cpu models, flipping the layout, which would also translate to x3d models coming to laptops. But it's just the most expensive models for now nothing really mid rangey