So…. About Strix Halo

yottabit · May 18, 2025

Where are all the systems? It’s been out for a while now right?

Anyone know any notable deals? I have a preference for a 10 key numpad too

Is the consensus it’s not quite the banger Macbook-killer we all wanted? From what few reviews I saw the battery life under load was not stellar, and the CPU mem bandwidth is not much improved over regular Zen5. Are these observations correct?

DavidC1 · Thursday at 9:01 PM

yottabit said:
Is the consensus it’s not quite the banger Macbook-killer we all wanted? From what few reviews I saw the battery life under load was not stellar,

Battery life under load is roughly determined by the set TDP level. If you want more, just lower it.

Hail The Brain Slug · Thursday at 9:11 PM

DavidC1 said:
Battery life under load is roughly determined by the set TDP level. If you want more, just lower it.

Something you can do on the ROG Flow Z13, but not the HP ZBook Ultra.

igor_kavinski · Thursday at 9:13 PM

yottabit said:
Is the consensus it’s not quite the banger Macbook-killer we all wanted?

Maybe HP has a timed exclusive deal with AMD for the Zbook? Explains why ASUS came out only with a tablet and everyone else is doing mini PCs or small desktops.

I guess we need to wait a year for any other laptop models to appear.

Lenovo with their Thinkpad and Dell with their Precision workstation model should come out with guns blazing as soon as the alleged timed exclusivity period expires.

DavidC1 · Friday at 5:19 PM

Hail The Brain Slug said:
Something you can do on the ROG Flow Z13, but not the HP ZBook Ultra.

You can with throttlestop if you wanted.

The point is that load battery life is basically TDP.

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