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It looks like the same Tong Fang ID4H1 chassis that Schenker Vision 14/Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 use (also XPG Xenia 14 I believe). If you do a search online, Notebook check, YouTubers (including some Linux-oriented ones) and various subreddits will probably have reviews. Basically looks good to me but ideally for performance/efficiency I'd wait for the 12th gen refresh (this particular chassis is Intel-only, although TF has other AMD models).

Below 45W, Ryzen 6000 outperforms, and it's battery-life can be up to twice as good as Intel 12th gen in idle/low intensity tasks like web browsing though, so for a thin and light, my hope is to see a decent AMD model come out in the next couple months.

BTW, a couple years ago I did a review of one of the first 4800H Tong Fang systems (versions of this have been available as the Schenker VIA 15 Pro, Tuxedo Pulse 15, KDE Slimbook, and Eluktronics Thinn 15): https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDLaptops/comments/hunyv6/my_mechr...

It was pretty thorough and I answered a lot of questions so maye relevant still. Also, one of the things that I liked about the Ryzen laptops is that while it mostly wasn't possible to exactly undervolt, enthusiasts have done a great job documenting mobile Ryzen's power and thermal behaviors, and you can basically script it to behave how you want, when you want: https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj/wiki/Renoir-Tuning-Guide

I use a toggle that runs `ryzenadj -f 50` for example, which allows full turbo/speeds, but hard throttles to keep my temps right below my fan hysteresis temp to keep it completely silent. This tends to be my favorite run-mode on battery (I have it attached to a udev script for when unplugged).



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