Quote from: Bizarro_NikoB on September 16, 2023, 05:49:50This is a good deal at this price point. And its AMD!
Lenovo's hidden marketer is lying again:
psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_P16s_Gen_2_Intel/ThinkPad_P16s_Gen_2_Intel_Spec.pdf
psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_P16s_Gen_2_AMD/ThinkPad_P16s_Gen_2_AMD_Spec.pdf
7840U full spec: www.amd.com/en/product/13186
The Intel version has 2 USB40/TB4 ports, AMD has one, although the 7840U officially has 2 built-in ones.
We go further and the shameful version for Intel and the shameful version for AMD do not have an HDMI 2.1 output!!!, although both have them built into the SoC. Those. Lenovo's scoundrel marketers deliberately ordered slave engineers to downgrade versions from 2.1 to 2.0 (and without HDR in 4k mode) in the BIOS of both series, depriving buyers of the ability to quickly connect a 4k HDR 4:4:4 monitor or TV in 60Hz mode. Not to mention the fast connection of monitors from 120-165Hz in HDR mode with 4:4:4 (if such appear, because today scoundrel monitor manufacturers have deliberately disabled this feature for HDMI 2.1 input ports)
The key flaw is that both versions are powered from a power supply only via USB-C, which is moronic, unreliable and easily breaks out on sofas and beds when used reclining, and moronicly on one left side. Despite the fact that both Intel and AMD specifically made the TB4/USB40 chips this way so that they could be easily installed symmetrically on the case on the left and right.
Moving on, the 7840U has built-in 2 (TWO) 10Gbps ports, in addition to 2 USB40 ports, which can be routed externally, both -A and -C. What we see in practice - again the goats-marketers ordered the slave engineers to bring out only the shameful outdated 2 ports -A 3.2 Gen1, instead of the 2 x Gen2 available in the SoC !!
Thus, this liar (or an ignorant fool) hiding under a sneaky name, as usual, lies that "this is a good deal at this price point."
There is nothing to pay for essentially so much money for a complete technological insignificance, made so intentionally in the AMD version, and the Intel version only causes contempt and bewilderment with its deliberate technological and ergonomic imperfections