They’ve already been pushing this for like a decade now. GeForce now has been a thing since like 2015.

Lmao. All non shit PCs are “ai PCs” now. It’s already built into the CPU. All you need is not 8 gigs of ram and to put that button and Microsoft hands you that sweet sweet dosh.

I would have done the same right now as an adult.

No

The OS was kinda buggy, but vista changed a lot with drivers so probably most of the issues vista had were drivers. I bought a laptop with vista on it in 08 and it was rock solid.

This meme gets crustier and crustier every time I see it. It’s amazing after all these years people still post this.

I do NOT like automatic updates when they happen during work hours,

Windows doesn’t automatically update during work hours. By default it tries to figure out when you use your computer, and it won’t reboot during those hours. You can manually configure it too.

Yeah. It’s not that hard.

I just did with that.

Also what are you typing blindly where punctuation actually matters?

I can blindly type with an on screen keyboard, it’s not that hard. What’s wrong with your phone where taps aren’t registering? And poor text prediction would be the same on physical vs on screen KB.

My old Pantrch Duo would frequently ignore physical key presses where it tactically clicked, but failed to actually bottom out enough to register. And I have that issue all the time with mechanical keyboards where the tactile bump happens before the key actually gets registered. Not an issue for typing, but for gaming I do it often.

The Gen. 4 isn’t smart enough to downclock itself when pure using a lower end power brick. 85 watt USB C, 230 watt power brick, it all runs the same. My Gen. 6 is actually smarter, but it took Lenovo a while to figure that stuff out.

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.

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?