So Linus made a couple of interesting videos
Ryzen 5800H vs i7 11800H
The i7 wins slightly but sometimes up to 25% however 5800H is limited to 60 Watts peaking at 80 watts where as i7 can peak up to 100 watts with 80 watts average.
Now personally, the wattage doesn't matter very much when the laptop is plugged into the wall assuming the cooling system can handle it. But when on battery, it does matter. In their test, Ryzen laptop gave 31% edge in battery life over Intel i7.
So overall, for my laptop upgrade, I am leaning towards getting an Intel i7 + Nvidia GPU. The main reason is based on the laptop and the battery capacity, I have seem Intel laptops lasting up to 8 hours vs AMD lasting up to 10-11 hours. Considering the performance + PCI-E 4.0 SSD + 16 GPU lanes and Thunderbolt, the Intel ones seem to have a lot of advantages over AMD and realistically, I'll be near a plug most of the time. So while battery matters to me, I think Intel laptops gives too many advantages this generation.
The other interesting video was about Windows 11. They show you ways to bypass Windows checks and gives you quite a lot of other info.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
