Quote from: George on December 29, 2023, 23:30:52Forgetting for the moment the cringe worthy headline of a new product not keeping up with a prior generation one - let alone surpassing it by a wide margin, surely a headache for Team Red. [...]
"One can chalk the disparity to funky RAM, [...], which is painfully slow for even DDR4, let alone DDR5. Additionally, the Ryzen 9 8945HS is throttling a little, [...] Once these issues are resolved, we can expect to see it perform on par with its last-gen counterpart and even trade blows with the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, which also seems to be struggling at the moment."
Sounds like it's just typical testing things that always happens.
Expect next year's refresh from both teams to be on the same footing: minor tweaks of their currently released products.