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So there may have been a thread already for this which I did not seem to find just yet. As we are in 2022 I figured I would reach out to the community and get your opinion. So from a business stand point do you run Intel? or AMD? or both? for laptop deployments.

Currently I have only ever run Intel from a business standpoint but I run both Intel and AMD for my home use. I am just curious to what others are doing from a business stand point.

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We run Intel because Dell doesn’t offer AMD for their business laptops. Otherwise, I’d probably run AMD.

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Mainly Intel in our HP Elite and Probooks, but recently used Ryzen 5’s for our HP Probooks for our sales team. So far so good. No complaints at all

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Intel vPro all the way for pre OS bare metal KVM access so I can do low level patches on my road warriors without pulling them into the office.

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Currently we use Dell products with Intel CPU’s. Haven’t had to many issues with most units. Performance is adequate and usually dependent on the additional hardware we have in our systems alongside it (RAM and Storage).

In regards to personal use I have started with and stuck with AMD on my personal built PC and haven’t been disappointed so far. Possibly looking at Intel in the future should there quality and performance keep increasing like it has recently. I’m really interested in creating an Intel Arc GPU and Intel Raptor Lake CPU combo for a home PC should both see the market soon. Fingers crossed all that has been promised for these projects comes to fruition! :crossed_fingers:t3::grin:

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for laptops, think CPUs are pretty much a wash, especially for normal business use. I would look at other specs of what you want in a laptop and focus on those for your choices.

Find a laptop that has what you want, Brand, Ports, Weight, Size, whatever, If it is intel only cool, if AMD only also cool. If you can do either, then you can check benchmarks and price and pick the most bang for the buck. But either will be fine.

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For MOST of our use cases we use Intel, and given the way the world has been working remote the last few years we’ve been pushing hard to get all machines with machines with Intel vPro so that we have another layer of manageability. Since mid 2020 we’ve gone from ~100 total non-vPro to now having just over 1/2 vPro following our normal replacement schedule and really, the vPro machines tend to have better specs anyhow so they will theoretically last longer and be faster which tend to make the price difference worthwhile. Then, with EMA we can do all sorts of RMM functions without paying any sort of subscription or extra fees. There are only a few cases with AMD laptops would make sense for our business, and in most of those cases the longevity/quality of the vpro machines outweighs the AMD benefits.

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Unfortunately Dell is our preferred business PC vendor and they do not offer AMD…hence we have Intel vPro on Intel laptops in our business.

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My company has always been pro Intel but during the pandemic there was a shortage on them and AMD were more readily available and it brought me back to my overclocking AMD gaming days.

We are back to pushing Intel because AMD isn’t offering anything like Intel vPro. From remote KVM type tools with just a basic wifi connection to health status, this is a valuable resource that AMD isn’t providing so I would look to Intel at every opportunity you can.

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For business, I only consider Intel… they have always to me been a proven platform vs. the AMD. Lately ( the last few years ) we have been going total Intel vPro, and I’m so happy with the remote KVM features… has already saved my bacon a few times.

In my opinion, AMD doesn’t even compete with the advantages of the Intel vPro platform chips.

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I’m more of an Intel fanboy when it comes to business, plus most of the manufacturers we purchase don’t offer AMD in laptops.

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We run HP but currently any laptops we have are Intel but HP has pretty much two product streams, one for each processor type.

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I believe most of our laptops are Intel based, but I wouldn’t have an issue if they were AMD. I just want them to work.

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We picked up a few HP EliteBook 745’s during the recent unpleasantness, for a remote office with a few superintendents based out of it. Their DSL was a disaster, there weren’t many options other than LTE radios, and guess how many notebooks with that were available?

HP generally has good LTE options available, but you can’t go and add radios after the fact any longer - they don’t put the antenna in, and pads aren’t populated with a connector (cost savings?). SO, you have to really scour the backstock or order them up front (e.g my Dragonfly). With a rush on the market, that’s what I could find.

Performance is generally good, Ryzen 7’s, but the weakness of integration shows up in battery life. One fellow leaves his at the office all the time now, plugged into the HP Thunderbolt G2 dock. Guess what? AMD’s don’t do Thunderbolt, despite the WiFi adapter is an Intel card.

No remote management through vPro obviously, which is a drag considering they are 200 miles north of us. We’ve recently retired all the 840 G4’s we acquired during COVID, the vPro connectivity was mighty handy with the WFH situation.

That office now has Starlink as of last month, incidentally, after they moved to another industrial park office with even worse connectivity options ($1400/mo 100 Mbit fiber?).

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So awesome to see Intel technology being put to good use - Love hearing everyone’s stories!

OP - As most have already mentioned, the Intel vPro platform has built-in features for performance, security (Intel® Hardware Shield), manageability, and PC fleet stability. Additional features, such as Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) for remote management, require activation and IT administration.

If you happen to be interested in hearing more about Intel/ Intel vPro capabilities, feel free to reach out to either me or @jack-intel .

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  • Did you try with notebooks with Ryzen PRO CPU?
  • What do you miss on these business notebook with Ryzen PRO CPU which you find on Intel vPro platform?

I’m currently considering to replace a HP ProBook by some HP EliteBook or Lenovo ThinkPad with some Ryzen 5000 PRO CPU. Models with Ryzen 6000 PRO CPU are starting to get available too but are out of my budget.

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I bought four AMD’s for a client and they would not run the same code that the Intel’s would. So I bought four Intel motherboards and worked through the night to change them out from AMD to Intel. No way I could pass that on to the client. I just prefer the real thing. I’m sure many of you have ad great experiences with AMD. But, once burned twice shy.

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How long ago was this? Don’t forget that Intel licenses the X64 code from AMD. I’d wonder what specific intel enhancement was being called directly i.e. sse2

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Have you looked at AMD PRO at all?

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Nope, just what HP offers on the EliteBook series. I was primarily interested in LTE radios first, EliteBook second, and processor platform third. I have had HSPA-plus through 5G radios in notebooks over the years, 75% HP, and by far the fewest issues with the HP’s. I can’t recall hearing any OEM driven datasheets on AMD PRO, and AMD can’t market its way out of a wet paper bag, so until you sent those links, I’d no idea it was a thing.

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