Man, you weren't kidding about about Lenovo dumping mediatek. I just checked the Lenovo Yoga 7a 2-in-1 2026. Which is a budget laptop for around $1000. Even tho none of Lenovo's official documentation points to what exact NIC it uses, when you go to driver webpage, download wireless drivers it's intel. :)

This isn't even a ThinkPad. This bodes well for upcoming Lenovo halo laptops. That they will use intel also. Wonder if this has anything to do with China-Taiwan relations.

Quote from: jdrch on Yesterday at 20:08:52What's significant is Lenovo have completely dumped MediaTek WLAN cards from the BOM, featuring Intel NICs instead. The latter are better, but are also known to be problematic when paired with AMD CPUs due to being designed for use in Intel machines.

It's advertised as WiFi 7 too. That's strange. Past amd CPU with intel nic machines were locked to WiFi 6E only. This might be a first..

Quote from: moe69230 on Yesterday at 15:45:07I hope Lenovo will allow customers to select Ryzen 9 with OLED screen (it was not possible on the gen 6)

That would be nice, but I'd be surprised if that were the case (all puns intended) due to thermal constraints, BOM cost, and desired battery life.

What's significant is Lenovo have completely dumped MediaTek WLAN cards from the BOM, featuring Intel NICs instead. The latter are better, but are also known to be problematic when paired with AMD CPUs due to being designed for use in Intel machines.

I hope Lenovo will allow customers to select Ryzen 9 with OLED screen (it was not possible on the gen 6)