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To Buy Or Not To Buy 2017-01-07 09:20:00 Post No. 58377546
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Do I buy a fucking Dell XPS 13 or do I wait for fucking AMD to release their new mobile chips! And if I should wait for AMD how long is the wait!
You /g/niggers literally have my life in your hands.
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>>58377546
Fuck the XPS but Intel has supply lines locked up tight. You're not going to be seeing AMD in high end mobile.
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>>58377589
Just can't win when Intel is inside.
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>>58377546
Ryzen isn't a mobile chip.
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>>58378112
This.
If you need the laptop now, you have to go Intel.
Zen-based APUs are coming in the second half of 2017 or so I've heard.
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>>58377546
The Dell XPS 13" has a thunderbolt 3 port. It's not expected for there to be an appreciable change in CPU power in the near future.
Even if GPUs had a notable bump in computing power, you could still just plug in a desktop GPU into the XPS 13.
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>>58378379
Also, only Intel+Nvidia has respectable eGPU support.
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>>58378392
No? AMD added support for this slightly before nvidia
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>>58377546
Zen APUs will appear Q2 2017, mobile stuff maybe even later. The architecture is scalable just like Intel's Core i is, so there should be now problems with power efficiency etc.
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>>58378443
Do they have hotplugging support and nonshit Linux drivers?
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If you want it now just get the XPS 13. If you use your laptop for regular shit you're not going to notice the performance difference either way between kaby lake and ryzen. If don't need it now then if you want to wait several months for a possibility of saving $50-100 you could do that.
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Guess I'll use my leaf monopoly money on the XPS 13 then.
Fucking AMD being a cocktease. She is forgetting about the wall.
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Enjoy your coilwhine
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>>58377546
Work pays for laptops, so that can't speak to value, except that the MacBook Pro work usually buy for people is more expensive and not as good for our workload.
The XPS 13 I've got is great. No complaints as a Linux user: everything works, wifi is great, qhd display is fantastic, battery life is great, keyboard and trackpad are much better than the mac it replaced.
I feel like the the build is really well balanced, but would suffer if you skimped on CPU. An AMD option just doesn't make sense to me for a laptop like this.
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>>58379404
What are the specs of the XPS your work provided?
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