Gemini Lake is really good in the $250 to $350 segment. They have great hardware video decoding/encoding and the general CPU performance is between Core2 and Nehalem level, while offering Chromebook level battery life.
There are Chinese laptops like the Chuwui Lapbook Pro that get you a 1080p IPS screen, a quad-core Gemini Lake, and 8G of RAM for $320. I'd rather do that and be able to run standard x86 software at semi-reasonable speed than to mess with a chromebook. (I can see the draw for a momputer that you don't want to mess with though)
I'd love something in the 7nm or 10nm class, of course. If Dali was on Zen2 on 7nm it would be fantastic. It's just not possible yet in this price range. AMD is still launching 14nm in this segment, not even Zen+. Next-gen Atom (Skyhawk Lake) is going to be on Intel 14nm as well.
I'm curious how Dali/Barred Kestrel does on the extreme battery life/chromebook thing though. Raven Ridge (and the Zen+ successor, Picasso) did not have great idle power and this hurt it there. If they could get the idle power down, it would be a good alternative to Gemini Lake.
There are Chinese laptops like the Chuwui Lapbook Pro that get you a 1080p IPS screen, a quad-core Gemini Lake, and 8G of RAM for $320. I'd rather do that and be able to run standard x86 software at semi-reasonable speed than to mess with a chromebook. (I can see the draw for a momputer that you don't want to mess with though)
I'd love something in the 7nm or 10nm class, of course. If Dali was on Zen2 on 7nm it would be fantastic. It's just not possible yet in this price range. AMD is still launching 14nm in this segment, not even Zen+. Next-gen Atom (Skyhawk Lake) is going to be on Intel 14nm as well.
I'm curious how Dali/Barred Kestrel does on the extreme battery life/chromebook thing though. Raven Ridge (and the Zen+ successor, Picasso) did not have great idle power and this hurt it there. If they could get the idle power down, it would be a good alternative to Gemini Lake.