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> These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can
by bambax 6y ago
> These machines are the first general purpose computers ever where you have to make an exclusive choice: you can have a fast and efficient machine, or you can have a private one.
Most of the components inside my PC are over 10 years old. I do video editing. I do music production with many VSTs open and running. And of course web browsing with a million tabs opened at once. For any of those tasks I can't see what would be the point of having a faster machine. Everything happens at once.
Also, having a modular machine lets you replace individual parts when they fail (which they almost never do anyway).
What are people doing with their computers that need so much computing power? Is it gaming?
- sneak 6y agoIt's about battery life and size/weight. The faster a chip is, per watt, the fewer watts it needs to draw for the same amount of performance.
- tannhaeuser 6y ago> What are people doing with their computers that need so much computing power? Running and developing web apps and microservices in proprietary languages and using oh-so-great modern environments and IDEs only there to lock you into a vertical garden
- Arech 6y agoIt's a new software. Take the note editor inside Evernote for example. It just slightly more sophisticated than a common notepad.exe, but it lags and freezes like it computes the Moon flyby trajectory by numeric simulation once every few seconds. Or the new fancy autocompletion module for Spyder python IDE. some stupid autocompletion requires TensorFlow running and therefore I just can't use it, because my 6 core PhenomII ( which is enough for most of what I'm working with) doesn't have AVX-instruction set. MSVC had a decent autocompletion for ages, VisualAssist raised the bar even higher... But now I'm kinda forced to upgrade my PC to get a simply decent code autocompletion... What next? Quad-GPU rig to run notepad?
- XCSme 6y agoI tried Evernote on Windows, it was so much buggier and slower than the browser web app, it was really unusable.
- Arech 6y agoI quite agree... The moment I find a simple note-taking app that synchronizes well between Win7 and Android, that moment will be the last moment I use Evernote. (well, I use excellent DokiWiki engine as my primary knowledge base, but to make it available on the mobile phone requires setting up and securing a web-hosted machine which is too much bother for me right now)
- qz2 6y agoI agree. My machine is a new modular one. You can have both with no compromises. It’s not even hard. And it works with open source operating systems! I doubt it will last 10 years though because it is modular. It will evolve.
- lkslkdjal12 6y agoNot even gaming, since a 2015 windows machine runs games better than the newest Mac available.