Best Ryzen Laptop for the money? Wait for Ryzen 7000?

[Streetguru]

Holy crap are there too many options and considerations.

Does anyone know what the best Ryzen APU laptop for the money is?

If something is really cheap with a GPU I might go for it(3050 or above)

But I figure an APU by itself should give me the best battery life as well? It's mostly just going to be a media hub hooked up to an external hard drive. Might play esports games or do dolphin/PCSX2 emulation on it at most.

if I find something Ryzen 3000-4000 for really cheap I might go for it.

But for the long haul should I wait for Ryzen 7000? Or just get a say higher TDP Ryzen 5000-6000 APU?

Not trying to go higher than $600

[Streetguru]

As an update I can't find a single laptop I like.

I found an MX450 laptop for like $300-400 open box, but I'd have to upgrade the RAM to 16GBs.

I can't find any Zen 3 laptops with 16GBs of RAM and a 1080p IPS display for $400

No Midranged Radeon laptops even exist. 6500M - 6700M doesn't exist at a reasonable price.

There's some 3050ti and 3060 laptops for $700-800 but I really don't need that much power maybe, they're also only 8GB.

There's a 6800M top end laptop for "only" $1200 and it seems to unironically be the best bet lol, but I really don't need a secondary PC to be that powerful or expensive although....if I wait a month I can justify buying it...

There is a $600 1600p APU machine, so I mean it ain't bad to be sure buuut...there's no way to add an external GPU there either unfortunately. I think it only had 8GB of RAM Though


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The secret code for good cheap laptops is Ryzen 3 3350U . just make sure it has a 1080p and you can upgrade the RAM.