Lenovo Yoga 6 Gen 8 arrives with AMD Ryzen 5 7530U and Ryzen 7 7730U APUs

[Redaktion]

Lenovo has introduced the Yoga 6 Gen 8, a 13-inch convertible powered by AMD Ryzen 7000 APUs. The Yoga 6 Gen 8 also has a 16:10 display, a 59 Wh battery and plenty of ports considering its form factor.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-6-Gen-8-arrives-with-AMD-Ryzen-5-7530U-and-Ryzen-7-7730U-APUs.676409.0.html

[Poster]

What is going on with AMD and or these PC manufacturers?! We are certainly going backwards where there are only few releases of AMD powered laptops with older tech. This model was released twice with the 55/700u Apu and now refreshing again with two generations old tech. And the thing is, the price is and will be comparable to the newest Intel tech.
Also, of all the laptops announced at so far from CES, only 20% have AMD variants with even less offering the Zenbook 4 parts.
AMD is dead

[weeeeeeeeeee]

If it had an OLED display, it may have been a good alternative to the Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED, as the Lenovo Yoga 6 Gen 8 has more ports and a 360 flip hinge, for 100g more weight. Although no number pad on the touchpad like the Asus does.

[Russel]

What is going on with AMD and or these PC manufacturers?! We are certainly going backwards where there are only few releases of AMD powered laptops with older tech. This model was released twice with the 55/700u Apu and now refreshing again with two generations old tech. And the thing is, the price is and will be comparable to the newest Intel tech.
Also, of all the laptops announced at so far from CES, only 20% have AMD variants with even less offering the Zenbook 4 parts.
AMD is dead

Looks like they're getting rid of that extra stock they couldn't sell when they should've.
Zen 2 and later processors were so darn good but we never saw them all that much. This might've been due to OEM hesitancy to embrace amd products rather than lack of chips.
And that might be the reason why there was a shortage of Rembrandt chips, because amd's management was afraid of overproducing. But when they couldn't meet the demand, they probably went ahead and overproduced it anyway.
Engineering can only do so much. AMD's management has always been a disaster, but the executives like Lisa Su and Frank Azor get all the publicity while poor engineers do the actual work. People who are supposed to bring in design wins get the credit for the engineering work but they never get those design wins.
Same goes for the XTX, remember how they blamed the silicon while the problem has finally been confirmed to be caused by the vapour chamber which indeed is attributed to third parties, again done by the management.

Now this decision of rebranding to get rid of old stocks for a higher price is gonna hurt amd's reputation again..

[Poster]

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Now this decision of rebranding to get rid of old stocks for a higher price is gonna hurt amd's reputation again..

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And that's exactly what is going to happen. All the old rebadged stuff gets sold as new to the unaware majority thinking a "ryzen 5 7520 is better than a ryzen 5 5825". The true zen 4 parts may be vapourware throughout except in the gaming and upper middle business laptop as occurred last year

[Mothertrucker19]

So where's USB4?

[Russel]

So where's USB4?

That should be there. Even Rembrandt ones that had original 6xxx banding had them in some.

[Poster]

So where's USB4?

That should be there. Even Rembrandt ones that had original 6xxx banding had them in some.

USB 4 only be on the rebadged 7*35 apus and in Zen 4 7*4* series as far as I'm aware. So not going to be in this model