Until now, AMD was shy to use their new Ryzen CPUs on the Chromebooks, most of them were powered by lower tier AMD A-Series APUs or the Athlon APUs. There are costly Chromebooks in the market as well powered by the Intel CPUs, so it seems finally we will get to see a mid-range Chromebook powered by AMD Ryzen CPUs.
The efficiency and performance of the latest Ryzen mobile APUs are making OEMs more prone to use them in their laptops. From ultra-thin notebooks to gaming centric ones, Ryzen APUs are being used everywhere, now finally they will be seen on Lenovo Chromebooks as well.
Originally spotted by u/Jakel856 on Reddit, AMD has indeed listed the Lenovo Chromebook C330 powered by AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U under the “Shop AMD-powered laptops”.
The choice of using the 2nd gen mobile Ryzen APU seems strange but ultimately it can reduce prices as this is a Chromebook and doesn’t require the tremendous performance that the latest Ryzen 4000 mobile APUs offer.
The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U features 4 cores and has a base clock speed of 2.1 GHz, the Chromebook has 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of eMMC storage. It also has a 11.6-inch display and the integrated Vega 8 graphics with 8 CUs is enough to handle graphical workloads.
According to the listing on AMD’s site, the Chromebook seems to have a starting price of US$303.99 but this might be the pricing of the original Chromebook C330 with a MediaTek 8173C processor. Even though AMD has made a mistake in listing but it is pretty clear that a Ryzen powered Chromebook will soon.
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