Intel or AMD?

Lenovo offers two distinct flavours of the ThinkPad T14s: one with Intel’s tenth-generation Core vPro processors inside, the other with AMD’s latest Ryzen Pro chips. There’s no doubt that AMD has the speed advantage thanks to the sheer number of cores it packs in. We test the eight-core 4750U here, but even the six-core 4650U version of this machine, which costs £1,260 inc VAT with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, will be faster than the four-core Core i7-10610U in the top-end versions of the Intel machines. Where the Intel models win is for customisability. At present, Lenovo simply offers two prebuilt versions of the AMD laptops, whereas you can configure many more aspects of the Intel editions: go right up to 2TB SSDs, switch to a brighter 4K screen, opt…

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