Where the heck are AMD Polaris laptops?

BoberFett

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All of the AMD Polaris hype from back around May/June seems to have been the last time it was even discussed. Since then it has gone silent.

Where are these new Polaris 11 based laptops? The articles all said they'll be there for back to school, but that window is closing. Has anybody seen anything? My daughter needs a new laptop and I was waiting to see where Polaris laptops would fall on price and performance, but I don't know how much longer I want to wait.
 

DaveSimmons

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The GTX 1050 will supposedly be out next month though possibly not for laptops.

It should offer great low-power performance and be much easier to cool properly than an AMD GPU, but the price might be high. The 1060 laptops start at $1,400.

(I'm not trying to make this a red vs. green thread, but nvidia has a strong lead in performance per watt, which matters even more for laptops. And they are using slightly underclocked desktop GPUs this generation instead of misleading "m" chips that are 1-2 model numbers below the desktop version.)