I’m about to buy a new laptop for travelling. I was wondering if the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 CPU is any good for Cubase?
Thanks
On paper the laptop looks great, but the cooling and power sharing might be a downside if the fans are running full blast and getting pretty loud.
is it a must to be a Windows laptop? Seriously, look into a Mac if you want to be mobile and produce music. I made the switch, M4 (soon M5 coming) is absolutely the better choice for music right now. There is an ARM X Elite 2 for Windows coming soon which should be pretty decent too, but of course the big weakness is missing combability for software still.
Always Apple users do this. Please, for the sake of my blood pressure, stop! PLEASE!!
Such posts always shift the thread to Windows vs MacOS.
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Not ALWAYS sir. 
A MacBook will outperform any Windows laptop on the market for music production as it currently stands. There’s no two ways about it. And I don’t even own an Apple computer.
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See what I mean?
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I said two always’s. Which do you mean? And I was generalising. But I know you know that.
And I’ve muted this thread.
So there!
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As stated, not an Apple user. 
I understand, but the OP wants a Windows PC, not a Mac. The fact that we’re having this conversation proves my point. Macs may be better, I don’t know, and I don’t care because I’m not in the market for a new computer, but there is a learning curve that comes with the switch for which a lot of people are not prepared to make the time. Maybe the OP is one of those people, again, I don’t know. But, the topic is “Ryzen and Cubase”.
My grouch would be the same if someone recommended an Intel chip, also Windows, but not a Ryzen.
Around 2004/2005, I had a Dell Inspiron XPS 9100 Pentium 4 with an RME Multiface connected via the CardBus port, running Cubase SX. Sick performance.
It actually outperformed a Power Mac G5 dual tower at the time. I remember attending a Kraftwerk concert back then and chatting with one of the staff — he mentioned that all four members of the band were using Sony Vaios running Cubase SX with a Multiface connected through CardBus.
Nowadays, I’m not so sure Windows laptops would perform as well with all the bloatware. If I had to pick a laptop for music production today, I’d definitely go with a MacBook Pro.
lol. Grumpy isn’t the right word @Googly_Smythe 
The dude was asking for advice. This is my advice after 6 months as an Apple user and 28 years as a Windows user. As of today, for laptops Mac clearly wins.
Well, there you go, @axiom , forget the Ryzen, get a MacBook.
See you in another 7 years.
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Could you DM me the winning lottery numbers for this week?
You seem like the guy to ask…
Well, here comes the surprise…
I do own a 16” mb pro M4 max / 128 GB ram / 4tb SSD and I absolutely hate it. I really tried to become friends with macos but it didn’t work out. That’s why I want a new laptop, def. Windows based.
So again…. Is the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 any good with Cubase?
Thank you
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honestly i do not know how it performs with Cubase. I heard these laptops are quite decent machines with regards to gaming etc and that they aren’t the worst regarding noise and heat. I can feel you on the mac os, I am slowly accepting it myself - but the m4 experience with heat and noise have motivated me to keep going down the mac road.
Hey buddy! You seem upset. Why don’t you take a couple of deep breaths and then reread the initial post of the thread.
OP didn’t ask for suggestions of laptops with a Ryzen CPU. They asked for feedback on a specific laptop model. Anyone replying who hasn’t had firsthand experience with this particular model, as well as at least a handful more laptops for comparison, will have a hard time satisfying OP’s request. I’m going to wager that the number of forum members that satisfy this criterion is rather small and therefore more general suggestions should be permitted.
Peace!
Fair enough. I’m not a fan of macOS myself either. I doubt anyone will be able to give you a satisfactory answer regarding this specific model (see post above). I’m my personal experience, Windows laptops are hit or miss when it comes to DAW usage. The only recommendation I can stand behind is to consult with a company that sells computers specifically for audio use.
I’m guessing you’ll have a hard time finding someone with that combo.
For what it’s worth, another user here on the forum uses the AMD HX 370 CPU on a laptop. I can’t remember exactly what they said but do a search to find the posts. Might have been a Zenbook.
I bring it up in case you weren’t aware of the difference between the models. The HX 370 will have some cores run slower whereas the 395 runs them at full speed. The other difference is the integrated GPU which I think is about the performance of a Nvidia 4060/4070 mobile. Might be worth considering for GPU accelerated Spectralayers tasks. And then finally you can get a lot of memory for the money with the 395 plus a pretty high memory bandwidth.
Just in case you didn’t know that already.
I was looking to get the same CPU myself actually. Wish I had tried one out.
Please report back if you end up getting one.
Why are you so confrontational?