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Interesting and unique design.
Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.
The lack of detailed specifications on their webpage conflicts with the "Computers for experts" marketing.
An expert would want to know the SSD is used and the exact RAM model.
Radeon 780M iGPU for a $2 K price (I am assuming this is American style list pricing, even if they are London based) seems like a unattractive proposition.
It's deceptively good. The 96 gigs of RAM is unified memory, accessible to both the CPU and GPU. It's not great for gaming, but it punches above its weight running large AI models.
That said, for $2K I'd be looking for something with a Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128 gigs of RAM in it.
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.
I would argue it's not deceptively good.
Looks retro. All it needs is a crt.
What does distraction-free computer for experts even mean?
It means that they thought this was good and convincing sounding market copytext.