AMD believes it can build a better cheap laptop with 10 hours of battery

A few years ago, you couldn't find a laptop with anAMD chip. They sprouted up in a few of the best notebooks you could buy. The just revealed Mendocino will feature in 200 different laptop models in the year 2022.

We don't know if it will deliver on that notion, but what it seems like is a good start: a new series of Ryzen laptop chips that combine four last-gen Zen 2CPU cores with the latest RDNA 2 graphics. Both Windows machines and Chromebooks are included.

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What does 10 hours actually mean? It could mean anything; battery life estimates are outrageous all the time. Robert Hallock, technical marketing director for the company, says most people are used to four, five, six hours on a notebook in the $699 to $399 space.

At the very same event a decade ago, the announcement gave me a glimpse of the quad-core chip that was being pitched by the company.

Back then, laptop manufacturers didn't take the company seriously. The company has clout now that the manufacturers are introducing laptop after the AMD powered one. The HP Elitebook 905 G9 has the longest battery life ever measured on a recent benchmark, as well as an array of new gaming machines with both AMD CPUs andAMD graphics, which are all new to the market.

Corsair is launching its first-ever gaming laptop, the Corsair Voyager, which is an exclusive toAMD.

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It's the first laptop ever designed to be a truly mobile streaming solution, thanks in part to a secondary touchscreen that acts like an Elgato Stream Deck. Corsair bought both Elgato and Origin PC a few years ago. The main display is a 16-inch panel.

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There is a new 16-inch Lenovo Legion Slim 7 with a 99.99Wh battery at 17mm thick, a non-Slim version that has force sensors built into its WASD keys, and a new version of the HP Omen 16 that is mostly identical physically.

The fine print shows that the laptop was set to the "best battery" mode and that the graphics were dropped down to medium.

The fine print of the presentation shows that the 2.2-pound ZenBook S13 can play triple-A games at 60 frames per second, but the fine print also shows that the game Godfall was not one of them. FSR has its uses.

If an ultrathin laptop like the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro X can get the numbers you see below, that seems like a pretty decent result.

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This one has the same chip as the ones that will be used by Steam Deck rivals in their handheld gaming PCs. We hope to be able to test a number of these claims before then.