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Now we only need a consumer CPU from Intel with AVX-512 enabled.

For consumer cpus, you can go back to 11th Gen Intel if you want avx-512 support.[1] Not ideal, I know.

[1] https://blog.reyem.dev/post/which-consumer-computers-support...

Not listed on that page is the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go, which has the same i5-1135G7 as the X1 Carbon listed.

It appears that MS is clearing out their remaining stock with discounts, and they are really nice little machines with outstanding build quality, very good keyboards, and a 3:2 touchscreen.

It was never a popular machine, I think it had very unfortunate naming which leads people to confuse it with other MS products. You have to think of it as something like a super-premium Chromebook to understand what it is for. But regardless, you can dump Windows and install Linux just fine.

RIP Icelake, we hardly knew you.

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