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CPUs with higher power consumption are: - Irrelevant regarding battery life because I can get from my office to the conference room to my shop to my home and b

CPUs with higher power consumption are: - Irrelevant regarding battery life because I can get from my office to the conference room to my shop to my home and back to my office long before the battery dies even with hamstrung sleep states in modern processors; everywhere I work it's plugged in to a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and wall socket and I can't understand why you would use it otherwise. - Still quiet, because the large heatsink is able to cool it while doing little work, and a large-diameter and thick fan doesn't have to spin like a jet turbine to cool it when it does need active cooling - Really, really cheap per hour to operate over years of critical usage; if I quote my time at $100/hr, use a computer for 40 hours a week for 100 weeks, and am more effective by even 1%, you could easily justify spending $4,000; realistically a bigger processor is far less than that. - Still quite fast even when I'm doing real work, unlike underpowered CPUs that throttle whenever I'm actually getting something done. so I would not work with an underpowered processor.

mdp2021 5y ago
We are discussing a modular laptop with hardware options. You would not work with James' options, others would - and he surely would. > I can't understand why you would use it otherwise Clearly you don't. But some do use it otherwise. There are no power outlets from where I am writing these very words. > the large heatsink is able to cool it while doing little work So the fans are normally off? Are they on only after minutes of heavy load?
mdp2021 5y ago
...And I forgot about the side of ethics: electricity does not come from the energy harnessed by playing kittens and natural rubbing of sheeps in pastures. When computers can consume 0.3 or 3 instead of 30 or 300, it is just better - even a thousand times better.
TranquilMarmot 5y ago
> Still quiet, because the large heatsink is able to cool it while doing little work, and a large-diameter and thick fan doesn't have to spin like a jet turbine to cool it when it does need active cooling Hmm... I have an i7 Framework (no VPro) and the fan on this things gets LOUD when it's under heavy load. Maybe I got used to my M1 Mac's fans never kicking on, but this thing is far from quiet. (I still love it though! Best laptop I've had in years)

mdp2021 5y ago

We are discussing a modular laptop with hardware options. You would not work with James' options, others would - and he surely would. > I can't understand why you would use it otherwise Clearly you don't. But some do use it otherwise. There are no power outlets from where I am writing these very words. > the large heatsink is able to cool it while doing little work So the fans are normally off? Are they on only after minutes of heavy load?

mdp2021 5y ago

...And I forgot about the side of ethics: electricity does not come from the energy harnessed by playing kittens and natural rubbing of sheeps in pastures. When computers can consume 0.3 or 3 instead of 30 or 300, it is just better - even a thousand times better.

TranquilMarmot 5y ago

> Still quiet, because the large heatsink is able to cool it while doing little work, and a large-diameter and thick fan doesn't have to spin like a jet turbine to cool it when it does need active cooling Hmm... I have an i7 Framework (no VPro) and the fan on this things gets LOUD when it's under heavy load. Maybe I got used to my M1 Mac's fans never kicking on, but this thing is far from quiet. (I still love it though! Best laptop I've had in years)