Lenovo offers the ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 with modern Intel CPUs, but only old AMD CPUs

[Redaktion]

Lenovo's ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 is an affordable and compact office laptop, which is available with Intel as well as AMD processors. But while the manufacturer uses the latest Intel chips, AMD customers only get outdated Zen 4 models.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-offers-the-ThinkPad-E14-Gen-7-with-modern-Intel-CPUs-but-only-old-AMD-CPUs.1174681.0.html

[Enma45]

I'll never understand why manufacturers aren't opting for the new AMD Halo processors, currently the best laptop processors with the lowest power consumption compared to these Pathetic Lake processors. It seems Intel is still bribing manufacturers to prevent them from using AMD processors.
Here's a table with the new AMD Halo processors, which I consider the best, and I hope more manufacturers will adopt them.

[There's levels to this]

Intel is still bribing manufacturers to prevent them from using AMD processors.

uh, so how comes x1 elite laptops, despite sucking, are readily available from all OEMs?

Or are you insinuating that they didn't bother bribing against Qcomm because they knew WinOnArm would fail?

Halo is too expensive. The SoC alone costs as much as some laptops.

[Worgarthe]

It's hard to care about AMD at this point - they offer less for more lately. This same E14 here is available with the 255H, which is faster, cooler, quieter, has better battery life, better iGPU, and it is cheaper than the Ryzen 7 350.

So it would make no sense to put the already expensive R7 350 in the E14 G7 to make it even more expensive than it is. The R7 250 is enough for those willing to waste away their money, it is still more expensive than the 255H, while being inferior in every regard.