Quote from: xpclient on November 13, 2020, 08:50:10
And no Thunderbolt as usual even for next generation? Are they at least adding PCIe Gen 4 because internal SSDs can benefit from that. USB4? HEVC hardware encoding with B-frame on the integrated Radeon GPU?

I don't think PCIe 4 doesn't has enough benefits to justify the increase in energy consumption. PCIe 4 SSDs are also currently way too expensive and power hungry to be interesting for most people in laptops. Thunderbolt 4 will also stay on PCIe 3.

And no Thunderbolt as usual even for next generation? Are they at least adding PCIe Gen 4 because internal SSDs can benefit from that. USB4? HEVC hardware encoding with B-frame on the integrated Radeon GPU?

The whole Pavilion line from HP is known to have pretty low power limits of cpus. This model for sure isn't even close to the best representation of that cpu. Again, we'll have to wait for the newer Ideapad S540 13 with this 5700U or even 5800U instead of the existing 4800U. That laptop tries to maintain ~35W on the cpu for a while until it later stabilizes at ~30W. Perhaps the same configuration of the 5800U might happen in the newer model (if it will ever exist).

I wish someone could find some benchmarks for 5800u so that I can decide whether our not to wait for it for my next notebook, but I guess the purpose of keeping the new cpu a secret is so that people will more likely buy the current model.