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I need a chip like this for remote work. I work from my at-home office and company policy doesn't allow desktops at home so we work with H/HX series Intel proc
by denimnerd42 4y ago
I need a chip like this for remote work. I work from my at-home office and company policy doesn't allow desktops at home so we work with H/HX series Intel processors instead. Battery life or weight don't matter at all.
- caycep 4y agosomeone should make cloud desktops for this sort of thing?
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoLaptop OEMs like Eluktronics or XMG have been putting desktop chips in laptops since forever. Have you checked them out? Sounds exactly what you need.
- l-albertovich 4y agoOMG, I just went to Eluktronics' site out of curiosity and saw LPP which sounds AMAZING. I've been thinking of something like that for a long time and seeing it readily available just blew my socks off.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoWhat a coincidence, Linus did a review yesterday :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH-x2Wgd-0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH-x2Wgd-0c
- throwaway81523 4y agoI have not felt the need for a very fast laptop given reasonable internet. I just do any heavy computation (builds etc.) on a remote server.
- antisthenes 4y agoYou don't. You need better software. Unless you're encoding video or compiling kernels 24/7 on your local machine. This is the equivalent of asking for a faster horse instead of a car.
- theamk 4y agoLet me guess, you are a web dev? We have large C++ code base, and our build times are super slow. With beefy machines, it is tolerable. With laptops, it takes hours. And yes, writing this in C would decrease our compilation times.. But would make the development and debugging times much longer due to the lack of safe abstractions.
- mbrodersen 4y agoI use VSCode remote SSH to maintain a very large C++ code base running on my 20 core office PC. It works perfectly. No powerful laptop required. Highly recommended.
- theamk 4y agoA lot of people are doing the same a my org. Unfortunately, we have a number of visualization tools, and while various remote desktop technologies work, they are still not as good as running on a local PC. Not to mention that sometimes you are in the field, and there is simply no good internet around. But this happens much less now ever since COVID.
- antisthenes 4y agoSo you listed the one use case that I agreed with and...what?
- theamk 4y agoYou might want to express yourself clearer then. You pretty categorically said "You don't", and said "compiling kernels 24/7", which is something no one does. The implied message there is that the vast majority of people don't need lots of CPU, and there is some "better software" which can eliminate CPU requirement for this. Please correct me if I misunderstood your point. My reply was an anecdote that when working on C++ codebase, the beefy machines are required. The implied message was that a sizeable fraction of people _do_ need the lots of CPU, and no amount of "better software", whatever it is, can help. Given the website we are on (HN), there is a large number of people reading your message who routinely actually use languages with long compile times. Therefore, your statement of "You don't" is not correct, I really do need it, despite not encoding video or compiling kernels on my local machine. Hopefully this makes it clearer for you.