Forget cheap. A high-end laptop based on AMD hardware - we haven't seen that for quite some time. HP dares this experiment, and installs the fastest Carrizo APU alongside an SSD and a WQHD IPS panel in its EliteBook 745 G3. But just how well can the 1300 Euro machine stand up to the Intel competition?
http://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-EliteBook-745-G3-Notebook-Review.158278.0.html
Anyone from HP reading this: SHAME on you for killing this notebook with the 15 Watt cTDP. This would've been an instabuy machine if you took a little more care and adapt the cooling to be able to take on the APU with 35 Watts. Making the cTDP a BIOS setting perhaps defaulting to 15 Watts would've made for a great bussiness notebook, but also an outstanding and efficient workstation if users could've cranck up the clocks at the cost of a little more noise and reduced battery time.
Shame, shame, shame...
This laptop an the models in the same range are complete pieces of s***. Worst laptop i have ever used. I have 2 different and they both have the same shitty build quality, trackpad is s***, network drivers crash constantly, it cant start up after sleepmode.