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The questions I always ask: - Does it have atlest two m.2 slots? - Can I have WIFI and WWAN (5G)? - Can this fit 4 RAM sticks? (96-128G RAM) - Does it have
by _V_ 3y ago
The questions I always ask:
- Does it have atlest two m.2 slots?
- Can I have WIFI and WWAN (5G)?
- Can this fit 4 RAM sticks? (96-128G RAM)
- Does it have a 4k display? (it's 2023, come on!)
Still not many computers do offer these parameters :-( I'd love to have Framework laptop if it would offer these parameters.
- dcow 3y agoCan I ask what workloads you’re running where 8TB storage and 64gb ram aren’t enough? On a laptop…
- skrtskrt 3y agoon a 13 inch laptop at that
- bitL 3y agoM2 MacBook has 96GB at 14". One can use it to run LLaMA 4-bit instead of 3-bit.
- miloignis 3y agoI've run LLaMA 65B 4bit int using llama.cpp on an couple of year old laptop with 64GB of RAM. Not a bunch of extra left, but it does fit!
- fsflover 3y agoQubes OS? Although 32GB RAM and 3TB storage are currently almost sufficient for me.
- _V_ 3y agoMy laptop is my primary and only work machine. I run a lot of VMs and operations on some bigg-ish datasets. RAM disks are quite a good way to expedite these things - along with two SSDs.
- preya2k 3y agoTwo M.2 slots, two slots for 5G/WiFi and 4 RAM Slots? You're aware we're talking about a 13 inch device here, right? No way this fits into the 13 chassis.
- _V_ 3y agoIt absolutely can. I don't really need a laptop that is razor thin :-)
- squokko 3y agoIf you need 128GB of RAM then a 13 inch laptop is not what you need.
- swader999 3y agoI usually go with are you consuming or creating. 13 inch is perfect for consuming but for some creating scenarios it may not be enough.
- m463 3y agohonestly I wonder if/how that much memory would affect battery life.
- _V_ 3y agoHonestly I'd go for ~15" or similar, but that's not the option (yet).
- moffkalast 3y agoA 4K resolution on a 13.5-inch monitor? That's almost as bad of a waste of GPU as mining bitcoin. Just for fun I did some calculations, at 1080p a pixel is 0.1483 mm wide, at 4K it's 0.0742 mm. With the eye's angular resolution of 1 arcminute at say half a meter away, that's 500 mm * tan(1/60°) = 0.1455 mm. Even someone with perfect eyesight could hardly be able to tell. Do you intend to use it as a VR headset?
- bitL 3y agoMost people use 2x scaling at that resolution and that helps predominantly the text quality as a single "superpixel" is made out of 4 pixels and many more subpixels.
- moffkalast 3y agoSo you're literally using it as a 1080p screen? Lmao.
- bitL 3y agoYes, since like 2012 with the MacBook Pro. That's how retina works. It's 2023 now.
- G3rn0ti 3y agoAnd almost no PC laptop copies that concept. The benefit is simply not that compelling unless you are designing type faces maybe. But maybe we boring PC people just can’t miss what we don’t know. Like Bentley cars or Champagne when we can get Toyotas and sparkling wine. ;)
- bitL 3y ago...or maybe it's just market segmentation to give PC plebs inferior tech? You seem to be proud of being what some marketing exec views as an unimportant low-margin value segment only good for getting rid of old stuff.
- bitL 3y ago96GB is doable with 2x48GB DDR5 modules that will be available soon.
- seabrookmx 3y agoI think you should be waiting for their 16" model.
- _V_ 3y agoI absolutely will be :-) And I really hope that it will have these features as I would really love to have Framework laptop and support RtR!