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by hot_gril 2y ago
Would a TB-PCIe enclosure like the Sonnet ones not cut it? I get that it's still easier to have PCIe built in, but that's a big premium to pay.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I don't know. Can't imagine it's easy to sell a used Windows laptop directly to begin with, and those big resellers probably offer very little. Even refurbished Dell Latitudes seem to go for cheap on eBay. I've had an ea
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The CPUs with iGPUs didn't also have the memory on-chip. The Nintendo 64 did. Not sure about the old home computers, but I thought those had separate memory usually.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
You can do that more cheaply with separate machines. The use case for this mega one really is monolothic DB or server.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
They put the M1 into the desktops too
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Intel desktop options are quite simple. My only complaint is on laptops, where the i3, i5, i7 thing conflicts with U vs H, and almost seems intentionally misleading. Like, why does i7-U even exist? But the nice thing is you search the model
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The M3 vs M4 thing makes sense, but pro vs ultra vs max is ???
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Computers don't usually depreciate slowly
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Well that's what (s)he meant, the Mac Studio fits the AI use case but not other ones so much.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Well also these chips originated in phones, where they kinda had to integrate it. And the quicker RAM and disk access are pretty nice.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Maybe it was, idk cause that project shut down
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by hot_gril 2y ago
M1 came out before the LLM rush, though
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It's new for mainstream PCs to have it.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Different tiers within the same generation are much easier to compare than across gens. Apple could benchmark them all and name them accordingly, but even that's misleading because it can be workload-dependent.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor... is pretty clear
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Same with Intel and others, but it's still annoying.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
For the teen's laptop, you can simply get the base model. Even a base M1 is more than fast enough.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
What is your workload that this machine helps with?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I remember this but never looked into it enough to get what the point is. They still sell it with an M2 chip. "includes six internal PCIe 4.0 slots for expansion. It does not support discrete GPUs over PCIe." uhhh, so in case peop
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by hot_gril 2y ago
There are already big servers designed for huge single databases, for example the 8-socket Xeon types. Tbh I don't understand exactly why RAM is such a concern, but these machines have TBs of it.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
2008 and 2000 were caused by our own bubbles and not outside forces.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
We have the combo right now, hoarding in assets. Inflation doesn't make rich people/corps spend more, just invest it differently.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The article does a good chunk of fear mongering, so it's hard to take the stats at face value. I want to know more details about that US vs China trade map. I've seen it before, and first off, it's not "primary trading p
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I don't see why the economy benefits long-term from people spending/investing only to get the money off their hands. Especially when it gets parked in things like gold and real estate just cause those supplies are sorta fixed.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The monetary policy we have coerces people into passive investing, creating bubbles. When rates are low, you see bogus "tech" plays like wifi water dispensers, that's the scam the author means. Also makes taxes weird, e.g. wh
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Maybe it's my eyes, but I really like having a high res display for terminal or anything else where I'm reading a lot of text. It can be low framerate or high input delay, though. 1080p on a small screen isn't bad, though.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
cat /dev/urandom |
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I didn't try reaching out, I just wanted to play Shrek Forever After (for a very random reason) and gave up after 5 minutes of choppiness. Like I said, there's probably a fix, and I appreciate that there's community support,
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Oh. So it can't emulate the game I probably played the most.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
i5-9400f, and I was wrong about GPU, it's 1660ti

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