HP Launches first AMD-based Chromebook; Industry still looking for Susanoo

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

17 minutes ago, mxk. said:

They actually trust you guys to freely use the entire laptop? Dang.

nonono i bought it for myself. it's just marketed at schools which makes it more expensive because it's built well.

[mxk]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

nonono i bought it for myself. it's just marketed at schools which makes it more expensive because it's built well.

ohhhhhhhhh. Yeah the only actual money I paid, was $20 USD for some recovery stuff for the dumb kids who don't take care of it.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

5 minutes ago, mxk. said:

ohhhhhhhhh. Yeah the only actual money I paid, was $20 USD for some recovery stuff for the dumb kids who don't take care of it.

pffff...

 

but yea my school requires you to buy your own laptop.

[mxk]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

pffff...

 

but yea my school requires you to buy your own laptop.

interesting, they require it? I guess there are a lot of poorer families outside of Portland (oregon), that seems to be a trend in liberal cities and the areas surrounding them, at least here in the USA.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

8 minutes ago, mxk. said:

interesting, they require it? I guess there are a lot of poorer families outside of Portland (oregon), that seems to be a trend in liberal cities and the areas surrounding them, at least here in the USA.

well yea there are programs to give poor students a laptop, but those are only the minimum to do the tasks and because of that are kinda meh.

[Drak3]

20 hours ago, Taf the Ghost said:

What's surprising is that it is still from the pre-Ryzen APU designs.

Not really, why waste good silicon on ChromeOS?

[-rascal-]

Confirmed the processors used in these Acer and HP Chromebooks are the following:

• A6-9220C
• A4-9120C

 

Source: LegitReviews, https://www.legitreviews.com/ces-2019-amd-announces-major-mobile-portfolio-updates_210010

 

Architecture is 'Stoney Ridge', appears to be a updated version of 'Carrizo'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors#"Carrizo"_(2015)

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A6-9220C-Processor.392021.0.html

 

Not quite Ryzen architecture.

That said, some of the 7th generation Desktop APUs are supported on socket AM4.