SK 8xing production is impressive. I know open ai bought ~40% of microns memory production. So increasing production by only 20% is pretty low. But like you said they had horribly low (for them) ram prices for a few years so they’re just trying to avoid that.
Sk must be banking on Micron not matching the spike.
Are there any other cases you can think of where a custom-printed item is better than the myriad of mass-produced plastic items?
None at all. 3D prints are almost always worse than injection moulded plastic. Only if you need a very specific custom thing. Or it’s just convenient/fun to make your own.
The atom is only gone in name. It’s now just “intel processor”. The N100 CPUs are in a ton of neat machines. And the E cores of Intel CPUs are just Atom cores.
Windows 8 also had to run on atom CPUs with dire CPU performance and even more dire memory configs. So even once it was booted it needed to be relatively slim and quick. I actually preferred it at the time because it was faster than 7.
I’m not, but unless I call the phone support I can’t get my windows to activate.
Yeah it took me a bit after 7 came out. But having all my excel windows in one group is way more efficent than two excel windows over here, one in the middle, and a 4th way off at the end of all my windows.
It’s a USB connected video adapter. Not USB C DP alt mode. USB USB.
At the best of times it’s solidly OK. At the worst of times it’s absolutely horrendous.
I had a few issues with 25H2 on release, but they’re largely fixed now.
24H2 and 25H2 are the same thing, it’s just enabling a few different changes. But things like the new obnoxiously ugly start menu have started showing on my 24H2 machines so I don’t really know what the difference is.
Exactly. I have tons of cheap (when new) laptops that still work perfectly. But that’s because I baby them. If I treated them like how I treat my ThinkPads or MacBooks they’d have been broken in a year or two. Plus who actually wants to type on a laptop that’s flexing more than the keys are moving?
Well if it’s anything like their previous models then it probably feels like it’s a toy. I remembered playing with a display model when I was thinking of buy it and was amazing by how flimsy it was.
On paper they seem like good laptops. But in practice?
No, avoid flash storage at all costs for any sort of archival.
The charge in the nand chips diminishes over time when they’re not plugged in. In my experience flash drives tend to lose their contents after about 5-10 years. Better drives will probably last longer, but they’re not suitable that.
Core 100 series was out at the end of 2023. The LPE cores shouldn’t have been an issue.
Bleeding edge hardware slower on an older Linux distro. In other news water is wet.
That said it being that bad is legitimately impressive. It’s not like core 100 series where they changed from P + E to LP + P + E cores to shake things up. The 200 series shouldn’t be *that *different from it.
It’s basic
10 turn on Bluetooth
20 connect airpods
SMH my face. Kids these days.
That’s the other thing. My new computer is a Mac Studio which takes up almost no space, and uses like 10-15 watts. Because I can just turn off my gaming computer when I’m not using it I’m saving significantly more power. Like just your CPU at idle uses more than the entire Mac actually doing things.
AMDs dual CCD CPUs tend to perform worse than their single ccd models in games. You can “fix” that by running the game only on one, and push everything else to the second. But I’d much rather not deal with that. A second computer is much easier.
Plus I can fuck with computer A when computer B is still doing other things without interrupting. That alone is worth it.
Also if you’re in a game and you have a video running that taking GPU horsepower. I’m not going to have a second GPU just to avoid that.
Performance. I’m a heavy multi tasker and I want nothing to get in the way of my frame rate.
For context my old second machine was a 2018 Mac mini with an 8th Gen. i5 and 32 gigs of ram. It wasn’t enough.
I have two computers at my main desk at home. One is exclusively used for gaming, the other is used for everything else. In theory Bazzite is perfect for me.
You probably can, just nobody bothers to do it. My Subaru has installable apps. Hell older Hondas (and possibly current ones) just run android. You can even get to the regular android UI on them.
I have a P1 gen 4 (same computer) and it’s performance also disappointed me. Mine was the i9 3080 machine though.
This review Says the A2000 (same as the 3050 ti) has a 35 watt TGP. 60 watts are for the thicker gamer laptops/ P1s with the better cooling system. It might run at 60 watts when there’s no other loads, but when gaming it’s gonna be 35. Only the 3070 and above have the vapor chamber cooler and it’s a MASSIVE upgrade over the conventional heatpipes. Those machines can actually sustain the 60-80 watt TGPs.
I was never successful with undervolting. Intel locked out undervolting for all but the K series laptops a long time ago. In windows I tried undervolting the GPU but MSI after burner would freak out and my clock speed curve would skyrocket to unattainable clock speeds. I never bothered in linux.
Also as a bonus, your CPU throttles to a mere 25 watts whenever the GPU is active and doing things. It will run over 25 for a bit, but under heavy loads (beyond benchmarks) it starts to throttle heavily. I was able to use throttlestop to get the CPU to run up to 35 watts sustained, but any higher and the embedded controller would freak out and drop the power. Just remember, this is not a gaming computer. It’s a portable workstation. They expect you to do workstation things with it. For work I liked the computer. But the Gen 5 was a huge upgrade because the CPU throttles to only 35 watts under heavy loads.
Oh also replace your thermal paste with PTM 7950 (the legit stuff, don’t cheap out and buy a knockoff from aliexpres) it made a MASSIVE difference on my machine. The thermal paste dried out within about 8 months for me. Or if you do use thermal paste use the thickest stuff you can find.