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I want to replace my music production laptop. while i was looking for a deal i came across a laptop featuring AMD RYZEN 7 1700 processor being recommended for music production by studio gear experts

Initially i was looking for an 8th generation laptop with i7 processor and i came across 2 options recommended by the same blog. The AMD RYZEN 7 1700 laptop has 8 cores which is enticing. anyone who has used this processor in music production?

If you look at the CPU reviews on this site, there is a section called "DAW Bench" which benchmarks the CPUs in audio editing. Take a look at the RyZen first gen review, the Coffee Lake review, and the most recent RyZen 2700X review as a start.

Generally, Intel processors are the superior choice for DAW work in particular. Having said that, the Ryzen 7 1700 should be perfectly serviceable.

You don't want a Ryzen 7 1700 today and you certainly don't want that chip in a laptop body. The primary advantage of the Ryzen 7 1700 is that it can be overclocked in a desktop form factor to overcome its low all-core boost clock (3 GHz) for performance-focused users. You can't practically overclock a laptop, and high clock speeds are an important part of getting the best performance from DAW software.

Any fresh Intel laptop with a Coffee Lake Core i7-8750H or similar will offer better single- and all-core clock speeds and will likely prove a much better platform for audio production. Those laptops also won't be as thick or as power-hungry as a machine that has to accommodate desktop parts in a mobile form factor.