A:AnswerThe laptop has the AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800H (2.9 GHz base clock, up to 4.3 GHz max boost clock, 4 MB L2 cache, 8 cores) processor. The trackpad material is not available in the specs.
A:AnswerRead my review that will be posted shortly. Any NVME M.2 2230 will work in the additional slot. The one included is made in Korea and engineered in Germany. High quality unit. But for your extra drive I would get whatever is a great price for a 1GB NVME M.2 name brand drive. Do not buy off brands as you may need this later as a boot drive. Two would be ideal as you could do an internal clone of the drive and remove it and them put in a data drive.
A:AnswerThe shadow black vs. grey are tied to the CPU, so the AMD version is "grey" even tho it looks black in person. And the "black" is the intel version. In person, they are different shades of black