Quote from: systemBuilder on May 23, 2020, 10:32:56
I cannot fathom the stupidity of building an 8-core/16-thread laptop with only 8 GB of ram. These days the minimum should be 1GB per thread in any laptop. There is no indication on Lenovo's website that this laptop has a ram expansion slot; all the RAM is soldered on the motherboard. Therefore, Lenovo is not selling a laptop, it's selling a brick.
The lack of RAM and the inability to upgrade past 8GB is a complete deal-breaker for me too.
It seems to me that Intel (and perhaps NVidia) has exerted a lot of pressure on OEMs to:
1. withdraw pre-announced AMD designs (IdeaPad 500, T14, etc.),
2. limit AMD designs (loss of TB3 [Lenovo], poor displays, limited RAM, unavailability of higher-end dedicated NVidia GPU options in the equivalent OEM model, etc),
3. delay AMD designs (AMD-based systems coming out months after updated Intel systems).
Am I reading too much into this? Why is no one reporting on this?