Lenovo goes MacBook Neo: Hands-on review with Lenovo's best-looking $699 laptop

[Redaktion]

Consumer laptops do not have to look boring - with the Lenovo IdeaPad vibe, Lenovo goes for a design with a few colorful twists, at an attractive price-point with many useful features. We had a chance to check it out at IFA 2026.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-goes-MacBook-Neo-Hands-on-review-with-Lenovo-s-best-looking-699-laptop.1389576.0.html

[Alita]

I think we all understand that a purchase with AMD is possible because having dual-channel RAM is essential; it greatly increases performance and improves the use of artificial intelligence in offline mode by 100% without having to send data to servers. Now we just need to know the price, or wait for AMD Zen 6, which will be a leap from 4nm with TSMC to 2nm and a new microarchitecture.

[rhtzu]

Lenovo would probably reduce the IdeaPads to a single SO-DIMM slot.

Token generation (output) solely depends on memory bandwidth (and prompt processing (input) solely depends on GPU's FPS performance / compute), so halving the SO-DIMM RAM channels will halve the token generation. Not only in an self-hosting-AI-models age is this the wrong decision.