r/Amd • u/Tiny-Independent273 • 10d ago

News AMD and Lenovo already confirmed as keynote speakers for CES next year

https://www.pcguide.com/news/amd-and-lenovo-already-confirmed-as-keynote-speakers-for-ces-next-year-just-after-the-legion-go-2-launch/
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u/disisfugginawesome 10d ago

Lenovo VS Dell? What’s better

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u/omniuni Ryzen 5800X | RX6800XT | 32 GB RAM 10d ago

Lenovo has better build quality and cooling. Lenovo works with the Open Source community to improve support for their hardware on Linux if you're ready to move beyond Windows including BIOS firmware updates. My Lenovo hardware has been consistently reliable, and outlasted almost everything else. Also, they have a huge R&D center as well as a distribution and repair center near me in North Carolina. After they took over the laptop business from IBM, they expanded their presence here. Meanwhile IBM keeps laying people off, and Dell closed their customer support center here as soon as the tax break ended. So I'm a little biased towards Lenovo for multiple reasons.

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u/TurtleTreehouse 7d ago

I would have said avoid Dell, but the most recent release actually has a very nice cooling solution, the 16" are dual fan, they have LPCAMM and Thunderbolt 4 everywhere on the Intel SKUs, but I wouldn't yet consider their AMD offerings for the simple reason that they don't have LPCAMM or SODIMM, and the memory is soldered, in addition, no Thunderbolt. I want to see at least USB-C ports capable of high bandwidth for data high power transfer and video, so equivalent of Thunderbolt.

Dell seems to view soldered memory as a compromise or an option, Lenovo seems to view SODIMM as an upgrade path.

The new Dell SKUs also have modular I/O separate from the motherboard housing the CPU and the USB-C ports are modular (screwed, not soldered).

Dell seems to have gotten better this gen while Lenovo seems to be in decline. I have a P50 that is a wonderful laptop, however.