AMD's Focus on Gaming Laptops with Zen 4 Chips

AMD is focusing its most powerful newest hotness on the area where it has more dominance, gaming laptops. Intel still holds the vast majority of the laptop market outside of gaming and the laptop market overall. So we may not see a ton of Zen 4 chips outside of gaming laptops. Definitely keep an eye out for the rest of the year though now that all the flagship chips are out AMD has been slowly working its way down to the more power efficient chips in its lineup.

Yeah uh wow so glad glad I asked Jacob on that one thank you Jake for coming through and hey if you all would like to see Jake doing a QA series like this let us know in the comments and we'll see if we can make that happen next up and I think this will be the last one for today. I wanted to keep this one shorter but let me actually ask you do you like shorter more frequent You Asked videos or longer slightly less frequent ones let me know in the comments.

I have so many asks I know why am I so needy honestly I just want to deliver what you guys like okay two more questions actually uh both on the same topic though phantabus asks do you do professional calibrations Im in Oregon and would like to get my TV calibrated well the short answer is no I do not do professional calibrations I'm sorry I wish I could help you out the reasons I dont do professional calibrations deserves a deeper explanation.

Which let me ask you another question if we did a live stream Q&A session every month would y'all be into that. Hit this video with a like if yes but but the reason I don't do professional calibrations boils down to time and money I am slammed all week long and on the weekends I'm completely booked with gigs I'm a professional trumpet player for those of you who didnt know but in addition to the lack of time there's also a significant cost involved with the equipment needed for a professional calibration and while Digital Trends owns the equipment I need to do my job as a reviewer I do not own the equipment needed for me to do my own calibration business anyway.

This question leads us nicely to the next one which comes from Lottasks430. I may have made that one up because I couldnt find the most recent question that was posted around this but I get this question all the time and it's important I answer it anyway the question usually goes something like can you recommend a TV calibrator in my area so I do not personally have a database of professional calibrators across the U.S but honestly I'm thinking of creating one now what I suggest you do is go to the Imaging Science Foundation website and click on the dealers tab I'll put a link down in the description so you can get there easily there you can put in your city and state and find dealers in your area that probably offer calibration services honestly I wish there was a slightly more refined way of finding ISF certified calibrators across the U.S and maybe I'll work with the ISF to sort of retool their site to make it a little bit easier but that's where I would start at the Imaging Science Foundation website click on the dealers tab you can also try going to the AVS forum and posting a request for help finding a calibrator in your area somebody in there probably knows someone in your general area and can get you pointed in the right direction okay so that's it for you asked episode two thanks for all your questions thanks for watching I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou've got questions I've got answersfun fact I totally rip that off from an old Radio Shack slogan that's going back a ways  do y'all remember that also fun fact I used to work at Radio Shack those were  times welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Denison here with the second installment of you ask  because many of you have asked a lot of questions and while I do my best to reply there is just  not enough time to get to all of them but some of your questions are really good and commonly asked  as well so I figured let's answer questions in a video might help some folks out and have fun doing  it so keep an eye out on Digital Trends socials for posts we put out asking for your questions  and hit me up and if your question doesn't get answered this week maybe I'll get to it next  week and regardless feel free to keep posting your question the more I see it the more likely  I am to get to it I'll just I'll do my best okay with that out of the way let's get to our first  question which comes from at @dragosmoldovan990who writes I'm in Europe and the AV landscape is  kind of different here any chance for you to get a look at Philips OLED TVs for instance I know  they're not available in the States but we simply have no good information sources here yeah so I  wanted to answer this question because I know that Philips TVs and Panasonic TVs in particular are of  high interest because they tend to be really high performers and I know a lot of folks would like  to see how I would rank them against all the TVs that I do review unfortunately as many of you know  Panasonic and Philips TVs at least the premium Philips TVs available in the UK and Europe are  not available in the U.S there was a time when I was asking the UK PR teams for these brands if  they might consider sending those TVs for me but as you can imagine that's of significant expense  to them and they can see that the majority of our audience is here in the U.S so it's hard for them  to justify that expense likewise it would be impossible for me to justify the expense of  importing those TVs so I could review them here the cost would be too substantial and that goes  for TVs and other markets too like Australia and India where I know a lot of you watching right now  happen to live now if we could arrange for me to travel to those places for a week and I did  those reviews in those regions that might be something but that would have to be a viewer  or brand sponsored thing because I don't think I can convince Digital Trends to just fly me  all over the world for doing TV reviews I will say though that I'm thinking of going back to  IFA in Berlin because I miss checking out the AV scene in at least that part of Europe because I  do know it is a bit different there and I like it next up is another international slash regional  question and folks I get this one all the time and I totally understand why @joshuamansill9394writes you've talked about doing a video about this before but why does Hisense and TCL  release very different TVs with the same very similar model number in the US versus Europe  and Oceania so you're right I have talked about doing a video on this and I'm still planning on  doing it I'm using your question as an opportunity to ask folks to be a little patient with me here  as you've seen we're in the middle of moving so I've had to put some investigating on hold I will  give you a little bit of a nugget though here the Hisense U8 and U7 Series TVs that we get in  the U.S are so good because reviewers like me have been on Hisense about improving this tweaking that  and the powers that be among them HisenseUSA president David gold they pressed Hisense  corporate to get those improvements for U.S models betting that getting good reviews would help sell  the TVs and that bet paid off the story is similar for TCL which got amazing traction on the early 6  Series TVs among reviewers and they leaned into that hard and got sales success from it so they  leaned in even harder now I can understand if the numbers show that those moves seem to work for  the U.S market but don't necessarily provide a return on investment in other regions I don't know  that is the case but I throw that theory out there because while I could understand that what I do  not understand is why you would use the same model number in different regions but not offer the same  performance for that model number that part right there is the bit I have not gotten to the bottom  of yet and I'm just a couple of phone calls away from getting the answers I need so stay tuned I  will do that video this year probably in October honestly so hold me to that I'll do my absolute  best this next one is not for me personally but I'm going to get the answer for you at @lordtardar4639writes just what is going on with AMD in the laptop sector and why aren't we seeing any Zen 4  based laptops not to be confused with Zen 3 and Zen 3 plus processors that were just rebranded  to 7XXX series halfway through the year except in just a handful of mainly gaming laptops  um so I don't know but I know someone who does so I asked Jacob Roach who you have seen plenty of  times on the channel and his first response was oh this is a whole thing which instantly made  me chuckle because I could just hear him saying it anyway he followed up with this response if  you're unfamiliar AMD completely changed its naming scheme for its mobile processors with  Ryzen 7000. now the architecture it uses is noted by the third number in the product for example a  theoretical Ryzen 5 7510 would be using the Zen one architecture despite the fact that it comes  from the Ryzen 7000 series which for the record is supposed to use Zen four that first number  that most people associate with the generation of the processor now refers to the year it was  released it's confusing and even more confusing when you consider this only applies to mobile  processors anyway to answer your question more directly it's hard to say exactly why we haven't  seen more Zen 4 processors in non-gaming laptops there are a few like the Acer Swift Edge 16 and  Asus Zenbook S 13 both with the Ryzen 7 7840U but most non-gaming laptops are stuck on Zen 3I suspect this just comes down to market share and positioning AMD is focusing its most powerful  newest hotness on the area where it has more dominance gaming laptops Intel still holds the  vast majority of the laptop market outside of gaming and the laptop Market overall so we may  not see a ton of Zen 4 chips outside of gaming laptops definitely keep an eye out for the rest  of the year though now that all the flagship chips are out AMD has been slowly working its way down  to the more power efficient chips in its lineup yeah uh wow so glad glad I asked Jacob on that  one thank you Jake for coming through and hey if you all would like to see Jake doing a QAseries like this let us know in the comments and we'll see if we can make that happen next up and I  think this will be the last one for today I wanted to keep this one shorter but let me actually ask  you do you like shorter more frequent You Asked videos or longer slightly less frequent ones let me know  in the comments I have so many asks I know why am I so needy honestly I just want to deliver what  you guys like okay two more questions actually uh both on the same topic though phantabus asks do  you do professional calibrations I'm in Oregon and would like to get my TV calibrated well the short  answer is no I do not do professional calibrations I'm sorry I wish I could help you out the reasons  I don't do professional calibrations deserves a deeper explanation which let me ask you another  question if we did a live stream q a session every month would y'all be into that hit this video with  a like if yes but but the reason I don't do professional calibrations boils down to time  and money I am slammed all week long and on the weekends I'm completely booked with gigs I'm a  professional trumpet player for those of you who didn't know but in addition to the lack of time  there's also a significant cost involved with the equipment needed for a professional calibration  and while Digital Trends owns the equipment I need to do my job as a reviewer I do not own the  equipment needed for me to do my own calibration business anyway this question leads us nicely to  the next one which comes from Lottasks430 . I may have made that one up because I couldn't  find the most recent question that was posted around this but I get this question all the time  and it's important I answer it anyway the question usually goes something like can you recommend a TV  calibrator in my area so I do not personally have a database of professional calibrators across the  U.S but honestly I'm thinking of creating one now what I suggest you do is go to the Imaging Science  Foundation website and click on the dealers tab I'll put a link down in the description  so you can get there easily there you can put in your city and state and find dealers in your area  that probably offer calibration services honestly I wish there was a slightly more refined way of  finding ISF certified calibrators across the U.S and maybe I'll work with the ISF to sort  of retool their site to make it a little bit easier but that's where I would start at the  Imaging Science Foundation website click on the dealers tab you can also try going to the AVS  forum and posting a request for help finding a calibrator in your area somebody in there  probably knows someone in your general area and can get you pointed in the right direction okay  so that's it for you asked episode two thanks for all your questions thanks for watching  I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like\n"