Hi all,

We are purchasing a new laptop for a new employee.

We’ll be booting directly into bios, changing settings as required, and installing linux immediately (either Fedora or POP).

However, we’ve only ever run intel machines.

Does anyone know if this could potentially cause any issues? We want a set and forget experience (have had that with intels).

System specs for the Ryzen version

Processor AMD Ryzen™ 7 7735U Processor (2.70 GHz up to 4.75 GHz) Operating System

Windows 11 Pro 64 (being removed immediately)

Graphic Card Integrated AMD Radeon™ 680M

Memory 16 GB DDR5-4800MT/s (SODIMM)(2 x 8 GB)

Storage 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC Opal

Display 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, 45%NTSC, 300 nits, 60 Hz

Camera 1080p FHD IR Hybrid with Microphone and Privacy Shutter

Battery 3 Cell Li-Polymer 47 Wh

AC Adapter / Power Supply 65W

Fingerprint Reader

Pointing Device Trackpad

Keyboard Backlit, Black - English (US)

WIFI Wi-Fi 6E 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above

Colour Graphite Black

Weight 1.53kgs / 3.37lbs

Part Number: 21M3003DAU

I should add the intel version here for comparison, I feel it has a little more happening:

System specs:

Processor 13th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1355U Processor (E-cores up to 3.70 GHz P-cores up to 5.00 GHz)

Operating System Windows 11 Pro 64

Graphic Card Integrated Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics

Memory 16 GB DDR4-3200MHz(8 GB Soldered + 8 GB SODIMM)

Storage 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC Opal

Display 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, 45%NTSC, 300 nits, 60 Hz

Camera 1080p FHD RGB with Microphone and Privacy Shutter

Battery 3 Cell Li-Polymer 47 Wh

AC Adapter / Power Supply 65W

Fingerprint Reader

Pointing Device Trackpad

Keyboard Backlit, Black - English (US)

WIFI Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 2x2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 (Windows 10) or Bluetooth® 5.3 (Windows 11)

Colour Black

Weight 1.47kgs / 3.23lbs

Part Number: 21JK00P5AU

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks so much! Torn on the intel VS the Ryzen

  • notanapple@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    AMD and Intel both have very good linux support. On that note there shouldn’t be much of a difference.

    In fact, AMD GPU drivers are quite a bit ahead of Intel on Linux. And the AMD laptop has a significantly more powerful iGPU plus it has DDR5 ram. So it should give you noticeably better performance.

    More problematic could be the wifi chip, fingerprint reader and maybe the camera.

    Wifi nowadays works well on Linux so I don’t think that should be much of a problem. Intel Wifi usually has better support though.

    Cameras also mostly work though the IR sensor might not work.

    Fingerprint support on linux is 50/50 (from linux-hardware, it seems fingerprint on similar models is not working unfortunately). If you know the exact fingerprint reader model on the laptop you can check if it has linux support.

    Thinkpads usually have good support on Linux overall so I won’t be too worried with either option. I couldn’t find the exact models on linux-hardware.org, however I did find similar models:

    All AMD models by this name (E14 Gen 6)

    All Intel models by this name (E14 Gen 5)

    21M3002TGE

    21JK0009SP