Comment by makeitdouble
Comment by makeitdouble 16 hours ago
The saddest part of this is the lack of availability: at this point there's 2 standard laptops using this chip, the Z13 being the only high perf one. There's the Framework lines as well, but they aren't available in many countries, and it's a very specific public.
And that's after half a year after the first machines to come to the market.
I love the Z13, but it's clearly a niche machine, so I'm assuming they are having a really hard time manufacturing the chips ? All the capacity is getting eaten by Apple ?
Cognisant US pricing for the HP Z Book Ultra was astronomical, within the EU it's on par with standard laptops and to good effect. The only regret I have is ordering on release day and not wanting to wait for the 128gb version; but battery life and power has remain unmatched to any of the pretty large workloads I have thrown at it!
Outside of laptops, Beelink and co. are making NUCs with them which are relatively affordable!
I do agree, the scarcity has limited their opportunity to assess the growth opportunity.