https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/amds-first-ryzen-7000-mobile-cpu-is-a-mix-of-old-and-new-for-midrange-laptops/ > At Computex earlier this year, AMD announced a processor called "Mendocino" that was intended to bring modern technology and 12-hour battery life to laptops in the unexciting-but-important $400 to $700 price range. Today, the company is bringing Mendocino to market in the form of three Athlon and Ryzen processors, collectively dubbed the 7020 series. AMD says laptops with these Mendocino-based processors will be available starting in Q4 of 2022, which is nearly upon us; launch systems include Lenovo's IdeaPad 1, Acer's Aspire 3, and a 17-inch laptop from HP. > The processor in the 7020 series is its least interesting element. It's a quad-core, eight-thread CPU (in the Ryzen chips; the Athlon chip is dual-core) based on 2019's Zen 2 architecture, previously seen in 3000-series Ryzen desktop processors and 4000- and 5000-series mobile processors. A Zen 2 CPU should be fast enough to make most basic browsing and office apps feel snappy, and they'll be preferable to the likes of Intel's Pentium and Celeron Silver chips (and probably also many of the upcoming Intel Processors). But they'll be slower than many 5000-series and 6000-series Ryzen CPUs, as well as quad-core-or-better, 11th-gen-and-up Core CPUs from Intel.