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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • People seem to keep ignoring the part where I couldn’t find any. Yes their naming sucks, but it won’t say “Nnidia” next to the listing for the GPU, so that isn’t the issue either.

    To go into a bit more detail: I was looking at linux-adjacent laptops (that I can buy without a Windows-license) up to 15" display, with gaming being a primary use case. This obviously includes that all components work with linux, and ideally it should ship with it. Preferably it should not be from one of the major brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo, …), but if they got the linux compatiblity down, that would be fine. Finally it should have good repairability and allow me to open it to swap components (RAM, NVMe, …) without affecting the warranty.

    So in the end I mostly looked at Tuxedo computers, Slimbook, SKIKK and one or two more where I can’t remember the name. None of them have a laptop with AMD GPU at all, only iGPU. Furthermore, when you check the price comparison websites in the “notebook” category (like idealo for example) they let you filter for this sort of thing. Obviously they don’t list every laptop that exists on the market, but they do list the popular brands (again HP, Dell, Lenovo, …). When applying NO filters at all, there are over 6k laptops listed. Roughly 1500 of those have a dedicated Nvidia GPU. The total for AMD/Radeon? 16. yes. SIXTEEN.

    So I’m back to “functionally, they don’t exist”.