Thin and Light Laptop with AMD INSIDE!?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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thanks to mass drop for sponsoring this video here at ces 2018 check out the jbl
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lsr30x powered speakers available now for a hundred bucks below launch price
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at the link below this is the lenovo ideapad 720s now normally when i walk
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into a booth and i go oh it's a thin and light i go well
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that one is definitely running Intel but
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for the first time
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ever i'm looking at an all AMD solution
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and something that i would legitimately call
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a thin and light notebook so it's got
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pretty much everything you would expect you got a couple of usbc's a usb 3 type
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a more usb 3 type a and something i don't necessarily expect anymore it's
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got a headphone jack it's got a 1080p display it's matte it appears to be ips
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but not like the world's most exceptional ips or anything like that
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it's got actually pretty decent feeling keyboard trackpad and
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ryzen 7 inside so it's actually running a quad
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core eight thread processor and not only that
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but it's running vega graphics too so what's in here is a vega 10. now that's
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not to say that the quad core ryzen 7
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with vega 10 in here is going to necessarily outperform the quad core
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ryzen 5 with vega 8 graphics over here
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because AMD is making these cpus highly
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configurable so this one is set to around 15 watts which means that while
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you will enjoy a 2.2 gigahertz base you might not be able to reach the 3.8
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gigahertz boost all the time and unfortunately at this time we can't tell
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you anything about how the vega graphics are going to perform because we were not
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allowed to install games on it what we do know though is that AMD is saying
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that we can expect performance up to twice Intel integrated graphics it's
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funny the lighting turned blue right as i said that for the rest of the specs
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this guy's running eight gigs of 2400 megahertz ddr4 and it's got a 256 gig
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SSD and i believe it is actually going on sale in some
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parts of the world either right now or very very shortly so
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man if i am AMD and their partners i am
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super stoked to have a solution that can legitimately compete in this space
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because for basically forever the ultrabook has been
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so dominated by Intel that they even got to invent the name for the category
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which i can't call this an ultrabook because it's not because that's like tm
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it's just really thin and light so back to mouse drop then the lsr 30x
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speakers are designed to deliver strong bass smooth highs and evenness
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throughout the frequency response with some pretty cool features so you can use
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the low and high frequency trim switches to fine tune the amount of bass and
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treble to compensate for the room you're in and they feature xlr and trs inputs
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so you can connect your speakers to many different sources you can check them out
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at the link to mass drop in the video description so thanks for watching guys
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