Of course this is just my opinion, but AMD's mobile products (considering how good Ryzen is) are disappointing. I'm not talking about the current Ryzen notebooks, however (I'm gonna be buying one for work soon), but rather their high-end offerings.

What AMD has in Ryzen is pretty well-established: 4-8 CPU cores running at respectable speeds and decent TDPs/temperatures. The question here is why AMD has not been able to reproduce it on laptops/desktop replacements so far. I'm in the market for a new laptop since my current one with a 3rd gen i5 is simply not cutting it anymore but all I see is 8th gen Intel with GeForce 10 series.

Now, I won't make any speculation on mobile discrete Vega since all we have is a "we're gonna do it" from AMD from some time back, but Ryzen is already here. It's effective, it's fast and it's efficient. It kicks all 3 ticks and yet there is exactly 1 laptop with an 8-core Ryzen (a full-fat desktop one, no less) and...that's it.

I would like nothing better than getting a 45-watt 6c/12t Ryzen, or even an 8c/16t notebook if AMD can muster that (though I wager it will be with a GeForce 10 GPU and not a Vega, at least till we see a real discrete mobile Vega), but considering the fact that there is only one product anywhere near what I require, I can honestly say I'm very disappointed in AMD. They promised several designs from their partners in 2018 and we've heard nothing in the high-end space, not a peep.

I could just as easily build a desktop, yes, but in my circumstances, a laptop is actually beneficial since it would truly be a personal computer where I can make and hoard any content I want to or play games, on the move.

I can only hope AMD will announce some good design wins (and actual product launches) this year or I will be left with no choice but to go Intel again, and honestly, I'd much rather not do that.