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I just bought this yesterday for my 16 year old son. He is in year 11, doing subjects heavy in maths and science. His old laptop was 8 years old and falling. I had a budget of $1200, reluctantly, as I knew that DDR prices and storage prices had gone through the roof recently. Typically, I have spent $700-800 on laptops for my kids.
I walked into a local retailer and this was presented as a laptop that had been ordered and not collected or paid for. Price was $1,999 firm.
After some negotiation, I walked out with it for $1,500. Way more than I was comfortable spending but it seems to be a good deal, unless I am missing something?
The 200 and 300 series processors are better than the new 400 series processors as they removed cores to cut costs.
The x50 hasn't seen any removed cores. Both 250 and 450 come with 8C/16T config, but the 450 has ~50% more raw performance based on benchmarks.
Except most laptop manufacturers are using the 445 which is only 2x zen 5 + 4x zen 5c.
Except that doesn't matter because we're doing model by model comparison.
"ooh, a lower end device that is marked to be lower end, did exactly that and lowered the end result"