Quote from: Intrigued on March 17, 2026, 23:30:09It'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..

The Intel product page confirms Wi-Fi 7 https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/240287/intel-wifi-7-r2-be211/specifications.html. Would be awful if Intel named a WLAN NIC "BE" without any actual 802.11be support.

That said, I have a TP-Link Omada EAP787 running in Wi-Fi 7 only mode and Wi-Fi 5 & 6 clients connect to it just fine, including the 6 GHz band for 6E clients.

Quote from: Intrigued on Yesterday at 13:37:31Man, 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.

This has everything to do with MediaTek WLAN NICs being literal garbage. I know, because I have a ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 AMD equipped with a MediaTek MT7925. From early February to last week (fixed presumably by an update) it started being unable to connect to Wi-Fi after around 24h uptime, with the only solution being to disable and re-enable the device in Windows. Unlike Intel, MediaTek doesn't offer standalone driver downloads, which puts the onus on the OEM and/or Windows Update to push updates and means bugs take much longer to fix.

It certainly does bode well for future Lenovo laptops. Now we just need to get HP to switch their AMD ZBooks to Intel NICs too. No idea who Dell uses.

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 March 17, 2026, 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 March 17, 2026, 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)