So for $600 you can get an aspire with 8250U and MX150 vs swift with just 8250U for $700.
What makes the swift better?
You cannot compare a Aspire with a Swift 3. Here is a Swift 3 with 8250u for USD 700.
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Swift-i5-8250U-Windows-SF315-51-518S/dp/B0746NQYFF
Didn't seem to be that much difference between the 2500U and the 2700U as far as gaming.
I was expecting more of a separation.
The Acer also seems to be much more thermally limited, as it sometimes scores less than the Envy (which considering the specs should never be the case, with all else being equal)Didn't seem to be that much difference between the 2500U and the 2700U as far as gaming.
I was expecting more of a separation.
andI believe that not every partner will go extreme on 25x20, but we will get a couple of partners to really take advantage of those capabilities. In some sense it is on us to show them what we are capable. The Raven Ridge/Ryzen Mobile design was sort of like the first step, but we are nowhere near done with everything that can be done, so you are going to see that power profile get better and better as new systems come out. So yes, I am very optimistic about the whole, like I said, I am simply amazed with some of the things that you can do, or we can do with in partnership with the OEMs.
andQ15: Do you feel like OEM partners are listening to guidance when it comes to system design?
LS: They are much more engaged than they have been in the past and frankly, we are also in their labs. We have a number field application engineers in their labs helping them to optimize their systems.
(Ian's questions in italic, emphasis mine)Q20: One of the things we found with previous mobile AMD launches was that the reference designs were not that great, and were built to a price point rather than trying to showcase the best of the platform. Did that change with Ryzen Mobile?
LS: I think it’s gotten better. If you take a look at the first couple of [Ryzen Mobile] platforms, I think they are better, and I still think that there is room for the platforms to be an even better showcase of the products. I would say that the OEMs are, in some sense, surprised with how good Ryzen Mobile is and from the expansion of the capability. I would say that the first couple of platforms were there to clean the pipeline a little bit and what you’ll see in 2018 is a much broader set of platforms including the commercial platforms.
Why couldn't they use faster ram to see what the results are?I'm not suprised at all: first, it's a power budget (TDP) limitation and second of course is bandwith - DDR4-2400 is an obvious bottleneck for stronger IGP of 2700U.
Most probably, we will see similar picture in desktop - IGP of 2400G would be circa 15 percent faster than 2200G.
Availability... Finding faster RAM is harder and harder now.Why couldn't they use faster ram to see what the results are?
Why couldn't they use faster ram to see what the results are?
I guess that makes sense for locked mobile chips.Only SKUs with > 25W TDP support > 2400MHz MEMCLK.
Wew, even some good design wins.Some news of RR mobile and corporate dedicated lines :
https://www.computerbase.de/2018-05/ryzen-pro-mobile-2000/
looking to replace my 6+ year old laptop so am wondering if there is a release date for the r3 2300u. i certainly hope that we see some more mobile ryzen laptops from other vendors soon-i'm not too impressed with the acer or hp options currently available and would like to see what a company like asus would offer.
if i can find it on sale i may end up getting this. the ntrig pen bothers me but the only decent wacom hybrid is the samsung notebook 9 pro which is 2x the price of this.