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Taking about remote vscode, I'm failing to use it pleasantly from a home fiber connection to my Xeon server, more than average latency and regular disconnects. I was hoping that such a setup would keep me going for a few more months; my old i7 laptop from 2013 no longer copes with my workload, mostly compiling Rust code.

Zen 2 seems like it'll be pricy in my country for a while, and I'd have really loved a decent AMD laptop with mobile Zen 2 chips.

Does anyone know if laptop chips are planned, and is there an expected timeline? Thanks

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2x00u is zen i.e. 1800x/1700x with a few tweaks 3x00u/h is zen+ (2700x,2600x) i.e. not this Zen2 architecture

The Zen2 models are rumored to be announced early next year.

I have the Lenovo A485 (2700u) it's mostly in line with an i5 8th gen. But with better on board graphics. If you run Linux the support is generally flaw less. The big caveat is less energy efficient at idle.

The big changes coming next year should be USB4 (thunderbolt). As a number of X570 motherboards now have thunder bolt.

It's all rumor and here say at this point. Initially I felt the 2700u wasn't worth the price. But after time, and active patches from AMD to the Linux kernel. It's been doing really well.

The 3000 series that shipped yesterday is Zen 2

As I understand it, they're only shipping desktop chips. Laptop chips will come later.

3X00U shipped in January and is zen+

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-details-12-nm-Ryzen-7-3700...

Even the 3000G series is zen+ 12nm. The desktop APUs and laptop lag behind. Which is unfortunate because that is where a lot of the market is.

If having an in-house server is your thing, there are plenty beefy rackmount units available on Ebay, from multi-blade clusters to single-image 8-way machines. Single thread performance will be worse, but throughput is still pretty impressive.

Also, multi-socket machines are much more interesting than single socket ones. Plus, if Rust is your thing, the very non-uniform NUMA topology will be an endless source of cool problems to solve (and I mean that - I love solving odd problems and inventing problems to solve myself is much less interesting).

But watch out for those electricity bills.

Don’t forget the 2 new hair dryers in your closet making noise.

You can always turn it off when not used.

Electricity in my country is too high to justify a server/rack at home. I've thought of a desktop, but if I'm going to spend a lot, I was thinking of a replacement laptop

What level of power consumption would be acceptable for you in watts per hour?

AMD's Ryzen 3700X has a TDP of 64W. You'd be hard pressed to find a desktop processor that outputs less than that.

> there are plenty beefy rackmount units available on Ebay,

Old rackmount units on ebay that provide more than 16 or 24 threads typically require >1000W PSUs to power the server's multiple 120W processors.

AMD's Ryzen 3700X packs 16 threads and has a default TDP of 64W.

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