Why do you need a laptop so bad?
This is still a pain point for me. I have been looking for a laptop with an AMD GPU for years to use with Linux, but System76, Starlabs, framework, etc insist on only having Nvidia as a discreet option. Or is it that AMD does not have laptop GPUs? Could be.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Because I travel a lot for work. My PC is way less powerful than my current laptop precisely because I spend more time in the road.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Hmm. Even when I was doing graveyard shifts with basically six hours of just me and my laptop during the dead of the night, my desktop was still more powerful than my gaming laptop.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I have a somewhat old Gazelle 16 with an 11th Gen i7 and a 3050TI. My PC is a MinisForum miniPC, pretty good for what I need, but nowhere near as powerful as my laptop.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This is not an advertisement, but have you checked laptopwithlinux (dot) com?
They’re based in Europe and I’m pretty sure they offer laptops with AMD GPUs, if integrated ones count. Not sure if it’s the highest end stuff, might not have VRAM, but there are definitely AMD laptop GPUs
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Thanks. I’ll check them out. But I was actually referring to discreet GPUs. I think I’ve never seen an AMD laptop GPU before.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Oh, yeah I don’t know if they carry those. It’s harder to fit one in a laptop case, so I only see them in specialized gaming laptops, and unfortunately most gaming laptops on the market seem to use nvidia.
Maybe them ceasing to produce consumer products will open a niche that others might fill. Time will tell.
dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 week ago
Framework used to make laptops with a dedicated AMD GPU, but I haven’t looked in over a year.