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all-amd systems are a solid alternative as well. if you only have an igpu, it's effectively the same experience as an all-intel system. if you additionally have
by gaasdggasd 4y ago
all-amd systems are a solid alternative as well. if you only have an igpu, it's effectively the same experience as an all-intel system. if you additionally have an amd dgpu, offloading work to it is as simple as setting DRI_PRIME=1 in the target process environment
- frant-hartm 4y agoYeah, AMD would be the way to go (I switched to AMD on my desktop when Ryzen came out) only if there were reasonable laptops available. AFAIK there are no AMD laptops with 128 GB RAM. Quickly looking at Lenovo site, I couldn't even find one with 64, only 48.
- csdvrx 4y agoBesides the lack of OLED display, the limited RAM on AMD laptops is another showstopper then. I want a minimum of 64GB ECC, which I can get on a Thinkpad with an Intel Xeon CPU.
- sudosysgen 4y agoThe Alienware M15 r5 Ryzen édition (amongst others) does support 64GB of RAM, but not ECC.
- dhbsdfgv 4y agoIt also isn't an all-amd system, so your external displays and prime offloading all become way more awkward.
- sudosysgen 4y agoI have one - prime offloading works exactly the same as on Intel. As far as external displays it's very simple, when I plug one in it is owned 100% by the NVidia GPU. Which is not an issue because I have access to AC.