Price is king here, and rumors suggest it will be around $2,500, which seems absolutely insane for a laptop without a dGPU.
I prefer to wait for AMD Zen 6 and Nova Lake and start saving, because Intel is currently selling its processors at exorbitant prices, which I won't allow.
There's a lot of competition now because there are five manufacturers: Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, and Nvidia.
If they want to sell their products, they'll have to compete on price.

Quote from: davidm on Today at 03:27:18128bit width RAM.

Correct, but it's about the memory bandwidth, not memory bus width, tho. Using LPCAMM2 allows for a 52% increase in memory bandwidth (8533 MT/s / 5600 MT/s).

Quote from: BWC on Today at 06:38:15Has there been a national bus width censorship campaign that I've been unaware of? Yes, it is but it's not like it was ever not known or hidden.

Also, you say this like it's a bad thing. Small bus width means better battery life. Until we get to LPDDR6. Apparently, according to phawx it will allow parts of memory to completely power down / off which will do wonders for battery life. Maybe then we will have 256 bit bus x86 with reasonable battery life.

128-bit bus also means smaller and thus cheaper chip.

Apple's M Pro is 256-bit (I think there's a 128-bit, which is still called Pro, tho) and has great battery life.


I'm not an Apple fan and I know I'm comparing apples to oranges here, but check out Apple MacBook Air (also available as Refurbished M3/M4 on Apple's website), but even a new MacBook Air M5 is much cheaper. The Air has a great display (500 nits, 100% DCI-P3), better battery life, no fans and is arguably better looking.

Has there been a national bus width censorship campaign that I've been unaware of? Yes, it is but it's not like it was ever not known or hidden.

Also, you say this like it's a bad thing. Small bus width means better battery life. Until we get to LPDDR6. Apparently, according to phawx it will allow parts of memory to completely power down / off which will do wonders for battery life. Maybe then we will have 256 bit bus x86 with reasonable battery life.

128bit width RAM.