The lovely bead-blasted metal wedge design of this computer will win retro-fans. But its AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, 96GB DDR5 RAM and ‘Workbench’ Linux-based OS are also strong draws at $1,999.
That said, for $2K I’d be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.
As you said, for $2K (I am assuming the real price is closer to $2,200 if it’s US style list prices) it is reasonable to expect a Strix Halo system.
The 7940HS is Zen 4 from ~3 years ago. Single thread performance isn’t all that great by modern standards and MT is subpar. Considering the form factor, it’s probably not much better than a 5800X (in a real case with strong cooling) from ~5 years ago.
It’s reasonable to expect that a professional, “computers for experts” that’s “made for making”, has strong ST performance and especially MT for $2K+. Not all professional use cases benefit from GPU compute, many require both ST and MT CPU performance.
As you said, for $2K (I am assuming the real price is closer to $2,200 if it’s US style list prices) it is reasonable to expect a Strix Halo system.
The 7940HS is Zen 4 from ~3 years ago. Single thread performance isn’t all that great by modern standards and MT is subpar. Considering the form factor, it’s probably not much better than a 5800X (in a real case with strong cooling) from ~5 years ago.
It’s reasonable to expect that a professional, “computers for experts” that’s “made for making”, has strong ST performance and especially MT for $2K+. Not all professional use cases benefit from GPU compute, many require both ST and MT CPU performance.
I would argue it’s not deceptively good.