Comments on Profile Post by Shiki

what are the specs you want? Currently for gaming not that I have any idea.
I know a few ryzen laptop with typeC displayport 1.4 and usb 3.2 gen 2x2 build in to one.
But I can't seem to recall any with usb4.

Most high-end ryzen laptop use b450 chipsets.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13091/7.png
As the abrove picture, b450 can only support 1 usb3.2gen2 x2. It don't have the capability for usb4.

**Hitting max character caps**

B450 can't support usb4 even if sacrifice all other usb ports

X570 chipsets have a TDP of 11 watts which needs active cooling, it's doubtful that anyone laptop manufacturers would use those.

Also currently usb4 controllers cost more than a thunderbolt controller.

Laptop manufacturers have to follow the guidelines set by Intel and AMD.
Like HM570 https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/213683/intel-hm570-chipset.html
It have a I/O specifications.
Hence, theorically. HM570 can have 2 usb4 port, but that would leave it having no other ports for SD cards reader or any other ports.

So not anything reasonable huh. I don't really want my laptop be obsolete after 3 years, so looking for eGPU option as an investment. But anyway, my research shows that eGPU is still not worth it.

If only they have something like ROG flow x13.

There is many other options for EGPU for laptop. Example the famous lenovo Y series. The Y510p.
https://www.techinferno.com/uploads/monthly_2016_04/IMG_1896.jpg.a081483cc78cac9410239758ba8af750.jpg
Which is a Frankenstein of a laptop. With pcie x8 ports in the CD drives.

Although, usb 4 is hard to fine, but for intel based laptop thunderbolt 3 is quite common.
Like my previous post, https://forum.novelupdates.com/posts/6439904/
The x170 do come with thunderbolt 3. Alots of other laptop also comes with them too.

You can buy an 11600k and forget about the internal GPU, and get a pcie extensions wires over the mxm Gpu slot if you want your laptop be like a Frankenstein.
Though personally I don't think it's not that worth it. A normal midrange Gpu can game a long way.

It's not the GPU itself, but the cuda cores and tensor cores, tbh. it's primarily for ML and DL.

Not sure, I have been using tensor flow with Gt755m.
Yes its slow. But most of time just throw them to remote servers to do it.
I mean, do people really do ML on laptops?

Prototyping the code, and then throw it to the remote servers like you've said.