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The trends definitely favor a mobile-first approach going forward, if simply because of the additional systems integration work that goes into tuning laptops. B
by mntmoss 7y ago
The trends definitely favor a mobile-first approach going forward, if simply because of the additional systems integration work that goes into tuning laptops. Battery life aside, the laws of physics dictate that you're more likely to have a reliable experience with a low-power, low-heat, low-vibration machine than a screamer desktop, and those things are definitely qualities that the manufactuers optimize for in mobile devices.
It's also increasingly common to see single-board SFF desktops that are essentially laptop parts with different I/O. I suspect that those are less heavily tuned, though.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7y agoproblem for me: i need a screamer desktop. i'm not online or running JS in the browser, i'm developing and building software that used to take 9 minutes to compile from scratch on those 12VDC systems. Over and over again. at home now i have a 16 core ryzen, which is extremely quiet and very, very much faster than those systems. but i don't think it would be possible to host this on a 12VDC PSU, and even if it was, the mobo form factor is inappropriate for the space i built in the van :( to be fair, the lenovo Y700 was/is essentially as fast as the 12VDC systems, which is quite impressive.