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This particular laptop model has (non-expandable) 24 GB of RAM, although the CPU can go to 64 GB easily. Problem is, in order to get needed memory speed, almost all laptop models from all vendors incorporate hardwired non-expandable RAM. Second problem is, many of those models include marginal quantities of RAM such as 24 GB. Why is that marginal? Because the (very nicely capable) iGPU needs to share RAM with CPU and I’d give it 8 GB, plus Windows eats up almost 8 GB, leaving only 8 of your 24 GB left for your data and programs. I prefer 32 GB or more. Why do they even make 24-GB models then? Because stupid Best Buy asks them to. They offer other variants with more RAM, but they want to sell product to us poor folk too. So buy this if you can live within 8 GB of your data/programs. Else get at least the 32 GB RAM variant (sorry don’t have the SKU handy). I’m still considering this 24 GB variant mainly because it occasionally goes on sale at a great price and I know how to properly setup Virtual Memory (thus partly alleviating RAM shortage). The best benchmark is Passmark all-cores score, which scores 30,018 for this Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU. That’s a bit less than half the power of the fastest current AMD Ryzen laptop CPU, and a bit more than half the power of fastest current Intel laptop CPU. Bear in mind that bigger RAM makes perceived power “feel bigger.” So this (RAM-shorted) laptop might feel about 1/3 as powerful as the fastest available laptops using Intel or AMD CPUs. Not bad for about 1/4 the price. The only better-value deal would be the 32-GB variant of this model, or perhaps an entry level super-gaming laptop (that would weigh twice as much).
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.This specific laptop model has a maximum multi-core benchmark score of approximately 12,549 on Geekbench 6. This is based on a standard configuration, though benchmarks can vary slightly in real-world use.
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