general-chat

[elfin mural]

no, the xbox ally uses z1

which is a zen 5 design

steam deck used a semi custom zen 2 design iirc

[opaque sedge]

That was the non xbox ally

[elfin mural]

the og ally also used z1

[opaque sedge]

The white one uses a chip called the z2a

Exact amt of cpu cores and gpu cores as the steam deck

And same gen too

[velvet summit]

I've been drinking Costco's Kirkland brand coconut water
It's possibly the best coconut water I've drank outside of a coconut that I could actually keep for months without it rotting
It's not cheap though but it's the only bottled coconut water I've found so far here that

1. Tastes like a good coconut water
2. Isn't watered down either
3. Doesn't have added sugars
4. Doesn't have artificial flavours
   Though it's about the same price as buying a green coconut from the store

Apparently it uses Thailand coconuts

[opaque sedge]

Man i hope costco sells more kirkland branded products

[elfin mural]

the rog ally in 2023 used z1 extreme

[opaque sedge]

Same or often better quality than the name brands

[elfin mural]

i guess asus downgraded it later

[velvet summit]

Fr

Honestly every Kirkland branded thing I've tried so far hasn't missed its mark

[elfin mural]

i remember seeing a catalogue book when i got my tuf a15 in 2023

[opaque sedge]

I need some kirkland branded pom juice

[elfin mural]

it came with the laptop lmao

[velvet summit]

I read that wrong

[opaque sedge]

The branded stuff is expensive

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

[elfin mural]

kirkland is also branded

just a different brand

im just fooling around, i know what ya mean

[opaque sedge]

Yeah but the products likely dont pass thru several different hands increasing the final cost which gets passed onto the customer

[velvet summit]

Best part is half of the time the Kirkland stuff is literally just the good name brand stuff just not with the brand name on it

[elfin mural]

brand image is both real and artificial in the same time

[nocturne flicker]

Man i hope Costco sells more Costco branded products

[elfin mural]

one dollar hotdawg

i heard they now check for membership before letting people buy hotdogs

[velvet summit]

Kirkland signature kinda is like president's choice products, though honestly I think they've gotten a better rep than president's choice now in Canada

(President's choice is basically the "generic" brand that loblaws, the largest grocery chain in Canada made, originally with personally curated products by the president of the company)

[elfin mural]

costco is the original subscription model fr

one that actually provides tangible value

and provides the company a stable source of income

[velvet summit]

Nowadays I don't think the president's choice is actually vetted as closely to be top tier anymore
The original products are still good but there are some misses

[elfin mural]

modern subscription services are made to rip their users off

[nocturne flicker]

Sam's Club preceeded Costco by a couple months

[elfin mural]

ah

so not the og then

[opaque sedge]

Yeah they likely just order the stuff from the same factory but the customer doesn’t have to pay for the labeling and other logistics cost of other brands cuz its likely straight from manufacturers to warehouse which is basically the store

[elfin mural]

man modern companies just think that subscriptions are a way to perpetually scam people

..which is working too, unfortunately

[opaque sedge]

How goated is sams club in comparison to costco

Seems like they bring in more interesting stuff than costco

Like that keychron hall effect keyboard combo they didn’t let me buy online without a huge no membership fee

[velvet summit]

I don't like sams club purely because they're owned by Walmart

[opaque sedge]

SHIT WAS AROUND 100 BUCKS AND INCLUDED A DECENT WIRELESS MOUSE AND I COULDNT GET IT

AND NOW ITS GONE

[nocturne flicker]

Technically Costco owns the actual first one called Price Club, but Price Club technically wasn't for normal customers

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/traewockhardt-sad-jjk-jujutsu-kaisen-gif-16591014784735052511

[rancid juniper]

Now they should make midnight club

[nocturne flicker]

Dunno, never been to a Costco

[opaque sedge]

What bit rate do i want to make sure an approximately 3 minute long 3440x1440p 60fps screen recording with av1 format is under 100mb

[rancid juniper]

Bruh

[opaque sedge]

Ok

30fps

[rancid juniper]

Maybe 2500kbits

[opaque sedge]

Whats that in mbps

[rancid juniper]

Uh

2.5?

[opaque sedge]

JESUS

DEFAULT IS 22

Its gonna look like shite

[rancid juniper]

Ah well

It's a compromise

[velvet summit]

My favorite nickname for a store to date is "cave on foods"

So there's a chain of grocery stores in Canada called save-on-foods and like I believe right before Y2K they had a new location with rooftop parking which was made on a roof that was not designed to have cars parked on top of it

[opaque sedge]

Oh

I cant get it below 4

[velvet summit]

The roof collapsed and then the chain was given the moniker of cave-on-foods

[elfin mural]

av1 saves more space than the bitrate suggests btw

i have 15 second clips that are only 20 mb or so iirc

on 4k bitrate

[rancid juniper]

Can't believe someone greenlit that

What

[velvet summit]

There were no fatalities since they did see the beam bending and pipes breaking

[nocturne flicker]

Grease a couple palms and you'll get anything greenlit

[velvet summit]

So they evacuated

[elfin mural]

no, my bitrate is 7k

interesting

[misty sparrow]

true. no one really reacted that much when i posted a screenshot of new Deck prices somewhere

[velvet summit]

Iirc it was an engineering issue

[rancid juniper]

Show em da cash and you're set

[velvet summit]

The engineering plans changed multiple times and the engineer that reviewed the plan for the rooftop parking lot was looking at an older document that didn't have the cost cutting applied to it

[rancid juniper]

Yes but isn't it goofy to park on top of a store?

[nocturne flicker]

Not really

Space efficiency

[elfin mural]

it's honestly normal efficiency

[rancid juniper]

Wow

[velvet summit]

It's worth noting that there's basically no parking in Vancouver and underground parking is quite expensive to build

[elfin mural]

just gotta make sure the structure can handle the weight

and all is fine

[rancid juniper]

Ah there it is, it's just too expensive

[elfin mural]

an easier way is just to create underground parking

is it easier to dig underground?

idk

[nocturne flicker]

You'll miss out on solar panel space in return for not needing a parking lot, but let's be honest stores aren't installing solar panels

[elfin mural]

im just guessing

[nocturne flicker]

At least not supermarkets and the like

[rancid juniper]

Parking lot on the 255th floor

Let's go

[nocturne flicker]

Which is actually a big waste tbh

[velvet summit]

During the design phase, the thickness of the roof beam that failed was reduced by 27% to a size incapable of supporting the loads above, even with lateral bracing. The reasons for this change have not been determined. "The beam was greatly under designed. The beam column assembly lacked essential lateral supports. Failure was inevitable.

💀

[rancid juniper]

Lol

[elfin mural]

ah yes

bad design is disastrous

floor is floor

[nocturne flicker]

They were just trying to combine the car park's floor with the store's floor

Duh

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-ishowspeed-laugh-laughing-gif-10107777875102130969

[velvet summit]

But yeah that entire multimillion dollar project was riddled with issues

Just poor planning and design

And trying to cut costs at the same time

[rancid juniper]

"cut costs"

[ashen swan]

wtf is steam on with the new pricing btw

[rancid juniper]

You love to see it

[ashen swan]

you could get a legion Go 2 at a similar price

[velvet summit]

They probably lost more money than if they built it right the first time around

[nocturne flicker]

Always have

[ashen swan]

They DID

they admit it

[nocturne flicker]

Cutting costs means just pushing expenses forward with interest

[rancid juniper]

Valve not trying to sell at a major loss due to ram prices being jacked up to infinity, gotta amp up the price of the deck

[opaque sedge]

That thing’s 2 grand now btw

[velvet summit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Square_collapse here's all the details if you're interested in the case study

[ashen swan]

wait what

it's 1000 In

oh nvm

[velvet summit]

It seems like I remembered the wrong date

It was 1988 not 1999

[opaque sedge]

Looks like it was an overestimate i see one for 1500

Still overpriced

[ashen swan]

yes

[opaque sedge]

Wait no

[velvet summit]

The chain is still around to this date and everyone still knows it as cave on foods

[opaque sedge]

Wtf

The 1500 model is the z2 non extreme

The z2 extreme is prolly 2k

[rancid juniper]

Most if not all these handhelds are not worth it for the price

[opaque sedge]

Yup 2 effing bands

[ashen swan]

alright

[rancid juniper]

If you're going that far, just get a PC or laptop atp

[ashen swan]

I guess we wait for Intel G3

[opaque sedge]

All to play games on low settings under 60 fps at 1080p with 50% resolution scale

[rancid juniper]

That I don't understand

[opaque sedge]

The z2 extreme still cant play elden ring at 60 fps

https://tenor.com/view/druski-rage-angry-annoyed-whatever-gif-5126333390325209476

[ashen swan]

I can understand how Nintendo gets their moeny now

[rancid juniper]

1st party titles/IP?

They get filthy rich out of merch, media, and the likes

[opaque sedge]

And hardware

[rancid juniper]

Yea

[opaque sedge]

They def make profit on the switch 2

Dont know abt rn

[opaque sedge]

Damn they’re basically a media conglomerate

[upper wedge]

@opaque sedge woot time

[opaque sedge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/wwe-john

[rancid juniper]

Competitor handhelds making the switch 2 look good

[ashen swan]

I have a switch 2

[opaque sedge]

Chat…

[ashen swan]

why tf am I looking at handhelds

[ashen swan]

huh ?

[rancid juniper]

If you already have a PC and laptop do you really need a handheld tho?

[ashen swan]

No

IDK

[rancid juniper]

Lol

[ashen swan]

I was just looking at it for fun

I refuse to use bazzite on my pc

cause I do work on there

and I'm stuck with a mac

[rancid juniper]

Oof

[opaque sedge]

Hmm maybe i should get this for my steam deck

[ashen swan]

what I'm saying is I want to try steamos/bazzite

[rancid juniper]

So you only have Mac system?

Because if you do have a regular PC you can try dual booting

[ashen swan]

Na I have a PC with Cachy OS installed

[rancid juniper]

Oh

[ashen swan]

I don't want to do dual booting

[upper wedge]

@opaque sedge actual trash slop of a drop tn

[ashen swan]

It's for work

[rancid juniper]

Alr

[ashen swan]

I'll just wait like

4 years

[opaque sedge]

yeah only decent thing i saw for myself was the microsd

[rancid juniper]

I'm genuinely waiting for arm chips to get better for handhelds

[upper wedge]

I would enjoy the microsd if the switch 2 wasn't pay walled for their specific sd

[rancid juniper]

Not getting those x86 variants due to how stupid expensive they are

And battery hungry

[upper wedge]

batteries 🤤

[ashen swan]

they still can't hop over the compatiblity part

[upper wedge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/aa-battery-double-a-battery

[opaque sedge]

Great to have a steam deck

[opaque sedge]

Bfr nov 2025

[upper wedge]

ngl I was always thinking of getting a handheld

[rancid juniper]

That I'm somewhat annoyed with

[upper wedge]

then the gods at woot aligned the stars

gave me a handheld with a 2:1 keyboard and screen

[ashen swan]

I remeber Valve is working on some Arm compatibility thinginy

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-angry-kid-congrats-nice-happy-for-you-gif-16045257244806990422

[ashen swan]

I forgot the name though

[rancid juniper]

If it's true I hope it's good enough where the performance is nearly 1:1 someday

[opaque sedge]

Yeah they call it fex

[ashen swan]

https://github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX

yep

[opaque sedge]

I genuinely wonder if the steam frame is even gonna be able to run pc games all that well

[ashen swan]

LEts see Intel G3 by July

[opaque sedge]

Looks like an old ass chip

[ashen swan]

So the funny thing

[nocturne flicker]

Don't worry personal computing will be long dead by then

[ashen swan]

it isn't supposed to run it

[rancid juniper]

https://www.ayntec.com/products/ayn-thor

I like this one

[rancid juniper]

Cloud ftw I guess

[opaque sedge]

Unless the frame is gonna run the games at a super low resolution only sharpening the areas where ur eyes look at

[nocturne flicker]

Nintendon't DS

[ashen swan]

Oh I do need myself a 3DS/New 2DS/New 3DS

[opaque sedge]

They advertise it as a standalone headset that can run steam games independently

[ashen swan]

Their wanting you to stream the game from a Machine or PC

wait

[opaque sedge]

How u gonna get the games tho

[ashen swan]

I'm wrong

prob

[rancid juniper]

Can run switch games! 🤯

[opaque sedge]

Yep cuz if that were the sole purpose of the frame

Why would they develop fex

[nocturne flicker]

Nintendo's gonna hunt you down like a dog for saying this

[ashen swan]

ah

[rancid juniper]

eBay

[opaque sedge]

FUUU I FORGOT THE PASSWORD TO MY PARENTS AMAZON ACCOUNT

I CANT GET THE SD CARD

[elfin mural]

outside of streaming, the steam frame is also a good vr headset tbh

[opaque sedge]

[elfin mural]

it's native to steam vr and all that

[rancid juniper]

Nintendo ninjas don't mess around yes but I got the strats fr

[ashen swan]

diffrence between Pro and max for the thorn ?

[rancid juniper]

Ez

[opaque sedge]

Reminds me of the cyberpunk dialogue mentioning arasaka ninjas

[nocturne flicker]

https://klipy.com/gifs/mario-home-1

[rancid juniper]

https://tenor.com/view/cyberpunk-gif-22121645

[ashen swan]

Just storage and ram huh

neat

I'll start saving for it I guess

[rancid juniper]

So with the base model you already get a decent chip

SD8 gen2 is pretty solid for what it can do

[ashen swan]

I wonder if

I can add my own SSD

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/incapacitate-v-male-dex-dexter-deshawn-cyberpunk2077-gif-26400732

[rancid juniper]

VPN shield activated

[elfin mural]

damn they still use sd 865?

that's oooold

[ashen swan]

DAMN IT

[elfin mural]

but still good

[nocturne flicker]

https://klipy.com/gifs/stare-glare-16

[ashen swan]

WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH A 2230 SSD

[opaque sedge]

[rancid juniper]

I still haven't tried an sd8 chip yet

🗿

[opaque sedge]

This is gonna get fsr 4 soon

[nocturne flicker]

You don't need it

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/the-burnt-peanut-liar-deceiver-false-prophet-gif-2293739730837593656

[ashen swan]

469

Bleh

wait

that's

[nocturne flicker]

https://klipy.com/gifs/liar-truth

[opaque sedge]

Guys the arc g3’s gonna be over 1.5k…

[ashen swan]

might as well go into the ROG Cyberpunk giveaway

[ashen swan]

How are you sure

like

lets just wait

[rancid juniper]

https://www.ayntec.com/products/ayn-odin-3

[nocturne flicker]

I shall enter giveaway with intent of reselling

[ashen swan]

kay

[opaque sedge]

I mean its def not gonna be cheaper 😭

[rancid juniper]

Qualcomm dragonwing

What is that

[nocturne flicker]

(Which is usually the intent most of the time anyways)

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-the-dark-knight-rawr-gif-5121024

WHERE

[dusk knot]

Hm

[ashen swan]

Rule #3

[opaque sedge]

If i ever won a giveaway i would prolly get immediately attached to the thing and be unable to sell it

[ashen swan]

:p

[nocturne flicker]

Silly

[opaque sedge]

Still cant let go of the 4070super

Despite it collecting dust

[nocturne flicker]

If I don't sell something it is usually because I am too lazy to go through the hassle of selling it for pennies

[elfin mural]

qualcomm's attempt to enter handheld market directly

[rancid juniper]

I see

[elfin mural]

it basically is the same chips as 8 series stuff iirc

[opaque sedge]

I think i can sell the 4070super for 5 hundies

[elfin mural]

just with cellular connectivity stripped away

only wifi is kept

[opaque sedge]

My brain shorted for a second

I meant hundies

[ashen swan]

Alright

[nocturne flicker]

What are bands

[opaque sedge]

1k

[rancid juniper]

Handheld not a phone anymore? Bummer

[ashen swan]

What is more importent

[opaque sedge]

Is one band

[nocturne flicker]

Why are you calling a grand a band

[opaque sedge]

Cuz

[ashen swan]

A phone that I can take pictures and videos with (It's kinda my Job)

Or basically a better 3DS + emulation

[opaque sedge]

Didnt the 3ds have a camera

Does the better 3ds not have one

[nocturne flicker]

The 3DS had a trash cam

[ashen swan]

by better 3Ds I meant AYN Thorn

[opaque sedge]

No camera?

[ashen swan]

brother

It's

[opaque sedge]

I remember other kids in school taking pictures during field trips with the 3ds camera

[ashen swan]

oppo Find X9 Pro
Which has top tier phone camera

or

Ayn Thorn: Inifinite free games

WHICH IS FUNYY cause

Both run andriod

[opaque sedge]

Free…

[opaque sedge]

Then just do the phone and get one of those control pad thingies for it

[nocturne flicker]

The camera on the 3DS was worse than practically every other contemporary camera except the ones on other handhelds

[ashen swan]

IF I get the Find X9 Pro I basically just get a better work flow

hm

great

[nocturne flicker]

And cheap phones that were reskins of turn of millennia Nokia phones

[ashen swan]

Man

Being a therapist sure is distrubing

[lethal jasper]

Fellas i need ram advice

I have a 2x8 pack of apacer rn and i found a guy selling a 2x16 or 2x8 of hyperx fury. All the same specs, which one would run better with the apacer

[ashen swan]

don't waste your money

[tranquil pebble]

A creeper exploded in the Xbox server room

[lethal jasper]

Fine i’ll buy more fake lego sets

[ashen swan]

there's something called grociries and life

[nocturne flicker]

Aww man

[lethal jasper]

well you see when you’re a minor your parents pay for groceries, i wonder why

🤔

[nocturne flicker]

Ew, what is this update to the Steam Workshop ui

[ashen swan]

do you need it

[lethal jasper]

yes

[ashen swan]

like

[lethal jasper]

Isk

Idk

[ashen swan]

get a better periphral

[lethal jasper]

theyre fine

[ashen swan]

then just save moneey

[lethal jasper]

second monitor parts will arrive soon too

[lethal jasper]

Good idea

Ok back to physics studying yippee

[ashen swan]

54,000 NTD for FW 13 pro

[ashen swan]

<@&500086265496993802> Murder him (or) like give him a warning ot smth

Isn't there no promo ?

Wait

wrong channel

Wait

I can install Bazzite on Ayn stuff ?

ah just the Loki

[opaque sedge]

[elfin mural]

i wish it was this cheap again..

0.073 usd per gb

[opaque sedge]

If not for this AI shit

I could have put my spare pc parts to use

For less than 4 hundies

[opaque sedge]

Ok looks like 4 tb ssds are somehow better value than 2tb and 1tb ssds rn

[elfin mural]

now a gigabyte is what

$0.1?

[opaque sedge]

moar

[elfin mural]

actually, more

yeah

[opaque sedge]

I wish it was 0.1

[elfin mural]

cuz that means a 1tb drive would be $100

and 2tb $200

and so on

[opaque sedge]

but they're 150/250

[elfin mural]

i guess we're back into 2015 ssd prices

lmao

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/mike-o-heam-giga-chad-gigachad-sigma-male-gif-14252379233135682789

[elfin mural]

yep, looks about right

more like 2016-17 but ya get what imean

[bitter ridge]

Tried comparing the festival sites of Fh6 and Crew motorfest

[elfin mural]

i sure hope this is true

cuz it's what we all wanna see

[ashen swan]

https://videocardz.com/newz/dell-unveils-xps-13-its-lightest-xps-laptop-yet-with-intel-wildcat-lake-starting-at-599

Um what?

[elfin mural]

i don't believe it

599 from windows vendor? lol

a cheap xps is hard to believe

[ashen swan]

My guess is 256gb of storage and 8gbs of ram+ wildcat

[elfin mural]

ah so 699 for retail

599 for students

[ashen swan]

Oh

Well

[elfin mural]

not bad i guess, if you slap linux on it

[ashen swan]

I'm a student

[elfin mural]

but bad for windows on 8gb

[ashen swan]

Without a edu email

[elfin mural]

full 700 is honestly

hard to swallow

but an xps for that little cash is definitely unprecedented

[ashen swan]

8gbs bleeghgggg

So like

[elfin mural]

i bet that 700 can get someone a very good m-series macbook with 16gb of ram

[ashen swan]

M4 airs are around that price

[elfin mural]

ya

i think dell can push the price lower if they just come out with an even lesser model

with a less fancy screen

https://videocardz.com/newz/seasonic-to-show-5200w-power-supply-at-computex

mmm, 5.2kw psu

what's this for, a small llm server?

80+ ruby certified psu, that translates to at least 96.5% peak efficiency

[opaque sedge]

What igpu does it have?

[elfin mural]

nothing good

wildcat lake is low end

it's aimed to be aggressively priced to try and compete with macbook neo lol

[opaque sedge]

I wonder if the costco b390 laptop for 1500 is still available

That thing had 32 gigs of ram and a 1tb storage

Damn costco’s including 4 games with the lego 2

[elfin mural]

bottom of the barrel is wildcat lake

[opaque sedge]

Huh

Should it be more expensive?

[elfin mural]

it should, but i guess demand is low as hell

so prices naturally dip

[opaque sedge]

This is the one with the b390 right

[elfin mural]

no

it's not the ultra X

[opaque sedge]

Damn

[elfin mural]

also 35w maximum tdp doesn't look good at all for how low power intel wants this to be

but it should still be efficient anyway

it's based on panther lake

[opaque sedge]

Trying to find this in costco’s website, they had this abt a month or two ago

Damn crazy deal now that i look at it

[elfin mural]

that thing's supposed to be like

2000+

judging by the current market

[opaque sedge]

Yeah not available anymore

Maybe i should have gotten one…

https://tenor.com/view/druski-rage-angry-annoyed-whatever-gif-5126333390325209476

[elfin mural]

do you.. really need that tho?

[opaque sedge]

…

[elfin mural]

if you didn't get it before, it's a sign that maybe you didn't need it this whole time

[opaque sedge]

Mhm

[ashen swan]

You already have a 5080

Budddy

Man Android keebs take a while to get used to

[opaque sedge]

Desktop

[elfin mural]

at the rate people are asking me to replace their phone screens for free, i gotta get a heating station or a heat gun to make taking the damn phones apart easier

a hair dryer does the job, but it's just a slow process

[dense locust]

I just use my soldering station as a heat gun

[elfin mural]

do you.. actually heat a phone's adhesives with a soldering iron?

[cedar compass]

Probably using hot air lol

[elfin mural]

makes sense

[cedar compass]

I only can solder audio cables so I only using cheapo soldering iron. But good stations have hot air as well which is cool

[tranquil pebble]

I tried to do an online race in FH6 and the other players were so much faster I ran out of time before finishing.

[tranquil pebble]

I would not recommend it.

[velvet summit]

Only the hot air would make sense but even then that's kinda risky

Especially when even just a hair dryer typically would be barely enough

Heat gun would be the best option though

[cedar compass]

I mean is it even possible to find decent screen replacements ?

most of them in market is trash copy

[velvet summit]

Depends on the phone

The major phone brands generally have a way to purchase a new screen

[elfin mural]

the phone i'm performing the replacement is an oppo a94

it's clearly not a genuine replacement, the screen that i'm given

it's my step dad's phone, and my mom decided to ask someone at work to order a screen for it

[velvet summit]

Sometimes only repair shops can buy them though but I think more places are selling to individuals now

Ah

[elfin mural]

it's lcd, but compared to a shattered oled that's the original that is currently on it

it's definitely an "upgrade"

[velvet summit]

Depends on how shattered it is

[elfin mural]

it's pretty gnarly

it basically obstructs the screen

touch layer still works, and it displays an image without any issues

[velvet summit]

Also huh
Can the LCD really fit? Aren't LCD screens thicker than OLED because of the backlight

[elfin mural]

it looks to be pretty thin actually

the lcd that was ordered

[velvet summit]

Hmm

Also you need to remember to get new adhesive

The old stuff is definitely not reusable

[elfin mural]

imma just clean the old adhesive and seal it shut with some adhesive out of a tube

my mom assumed i'd have adhesive laying around, so i had to order one for her lmao

what's left is we're waiting for the adhesive to arrive

it's an adhesive specifically made for adhering screens to chassis

should be plenty strong, and meltable if i need to replace it again

[velvet summit]

Yeah that could work
Though for adhesive from a tube, you need to put a pretty conservative amount or it could stick to other things which would be not ideal

[elfin mural]

i'd have preferred tapes

but my mom is trying to be as cheap as she can

not my phone, so i'm not too concerned

i just gotta not mess stuff up

one good thing about this specific oppo model is that to take the screen off, i don't need to dislodge the glued-in battery

the sub board that connects to the main board has a display connector facing forward thru a little cutout in the chassis

still do need to take the side bezels and back cover off tho, but that's not too hard

[cedar compass]

yeah there's lots of lcd copies of screens . and most of them lagging because it's not 120hz lol

[elfin mural]

this thing is already 60hz from the factory

i doubt my step dad would care anyway

[velvet summit]

I wonder if there has been... Actually nvm I've already seen someone do it before

Technically beyond what I'm even thinking of

Specifically a sedan that is lifted as tall as a lifted truck

Or higher

Damn this Honda fit is missing the plastic on the blinker/brake light

The bulb is still there but instead of red it's just the regular bulb colour

They just did an illegal left turn

There was only a single left turn lane here and he used the lane you're supposed to go straight in to turn left

Ok Garmin video speichern

[ashen swan]

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-unveils-worlds-first-qd-oled-triple-mode-monitor-4k-360hz-2k-520hz-fhd-680hz

https://videocardz.com/newz/dell-confirms-xps-laptop-with-nvidia-n1x-at-computex

@elfin mural I hope this isn't true

The XPS 13 only has 2 ports
1X USB-A
1X USB-C

[elfin mural]

so the xps is gonna range from low end to high end eh?

that's an interesting move

also tbh it's an xps, ports being scarce is probably part of what i expect

[ashen swan]

I mean
XPS's have been lacking ports

[elfin mural]

if i really need more ports, i'd get a usb hub

[ashen swan]

I kinda just need a Ultrabook with SD card slot Oled screen touch screen and 1 USB-A

SO like

[unborn wind]

Sad

[velvet summit]

So much io

I sure hope there's at least a few more ports on the other side
But at the same time not really because that would be a terrible place for more ports on the side where you would use a mouse

[ashen swan]

I'm gonna bet 3000 MSRP

[velvet summit]

Real

[ashen swan]

pretty sure this is a placeholder

damn Intel

where is the 338H chip

[velvet summit]

Maybe

[velvet summit]

Oh yeah the article said that there were no images for it apparently

So yeah this is just a random placeholder probably

[ashen swan]

this is prob the XPS 13 then

[velvet summit]

Wtf
I just looked up the xps13 and it only has 2 USBC ports

I ain't ever going to even consider that laptop

I don't mind needing a docking station for like when you're at a desk but I don't want to drag around a dongle for plugging in a projector

[ashen swan]

pretty sure my next laptop is a xiaomi one

[velvet summit]

No longer getting a framework? Lmao

[ashen swan]

Unless they announce a wildcat lake 12

no

[elfin mural]

i wish wireless mice would begin using usb-c dongles

or at least, ship with an adapter

[velvet summit]

My uh

[pliant berry]

some do actually

[velvet summit]

Keychron included both a usba and usb c adapter

Er

Not adapter, dongles

[pliant berry]

yeah mine came with both. I leave the usb c in my backpack for when I go out

[olive plaza]

I would be the target market for this if it didn't cost $800

X870E Dark Hero but it's the "ROG 2006" edition hence the 2006 color scheme

[velvet summit]

FUTURE
2006

[elfin mural]

that's interesting, i'll see if the mouse i ordered has a dongle or not

[olive plaza]

I would figure out a way to mount my new-in-box Zalman CNPS9500 cooler on that board

[elfin mural]

it's estimated to arrive in 10-18th june

[velvet summit]

It certainly is an interesting colour scheme that would be mostly covered by every component you put in there

[tranquil pebble]

I just went with a cheap b650 board (open box MSI Tomahawk) for AM5. It is sufficient for the 9800x3d.

[olive plaza]

My PC is using an MSI board too

X470 Gaming Pro. Bought it used on eBay for $50 complete in box

[tranquil pebble]

I haven't had any weirdness with MSI boards yet like I have had with Asus

[ashen swan]

To add on to that I do have a job as a photograpgher and me like touchscreens

[tranquil pebble]

one Asus board I had would always tell you it failed POST but then boot fine anyways.

[ashen swan]

so I need oleds

and me love touchscreen\

[olive plaza]

Anecdotal evidence is interesting to know but seldom leads to a pattern

That said

I've had boards with weird issues from every single manufacturer

[tranquil pebble]

Anecdotal evidence can lead to a hypothesis at best.

[olive plaza]

maybe a working hypothesis

[pliant berry]

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE IS KING

MY EXPERIENCE IS EVERYONES EXPERIENCE

[olive plaza]

Anecdotal evidence is why nobody buys Intel anymore

I said what I said

Steve from Gamers Nexus is an Anecdotal Evidence Broadcaster

[velvet summit]

I've had no issues with any of my MSI products either so far

[elfin mural]

it's easier to take anecdotal evidence to heart than facing the boring, and sometimes painful reality of having to research on your own

[pliant berry]

but I still have intel 🙁

[velvet summit]

Though I do research on everything I buy so I don't buy the shit stuff that don't work

[olive plaza]

I had an entire swath of bad MSI boards from the AMD 600 series chipsets

[tranquil pebble]

blindly buying parts is never a good idea

[olive plaza]

what would happen is they'd tell you there was a USB overcurrent error. When nothing was plugged into USB at all

it would prevent POST

[velvet summit]

That goes for anything honestly

[olive plaza]

We had dozens of boards like this

[velvet summit]

Also part of the reason I dislike gambling

I don't like uncertainty

[olive plaza]

but it was dozens, out of the many hundreds we bought

[tranquil pebble]

gambling is rigged in favor of the house anyways

[olive plaza]

and the problem stopped happening on new boards so I didn't give it much thought

[tranquil pebble]

so there is certainty in you losing money

[olive plaza]

meanwhile many people will be like "my singular item stopped working therefore this entire brand is shit"

[tranquil pebble]

yeah unless someone buys like 50 of the same model and half of them die that's not a strong argument

[olive plaza]

I've talked at length about the Intel issue before

and I get steamrolled by anecdotal evidence

[tranquil pebble]

and even then it can be a bad batch

or model

[olive plaza]

very true

et al Gigabyte PSUs

[tranquil pebble]

its still fun to meme on those though

[olive plaza]

two very specific models from a single series of PSUs they made

oh trust me it's fun because, I was able to get dozens of the unaffected models of Gigabyte PSUs for pennies on the dollar when all that went down

[tranquil pebble]

I got a Corsair RMx1000

ATX 3.1 compliant

[elfin mural]

anyhow, i find high polling rate mice to be a gimmick

speaking from my personal experience of using a mouse with 1k polling rate

i just switch back to 125hz after finding no benefit at all

[tranquil pebble]

sometimes I've found high polling rates to cause micro stuttering in games

[elfin mural]

all while gaining majorly in battery life

high polling rate takes up more cpu load, so yeah

[olive plaza]

Some people will agree with Steve when he posts a "shitting on a brand" video
Other people will disagree and call him a clickbaiter
I'm in a third camp where, he'll say "These two Gigabyte PSUs are bad" and I'll go buy the other models which are heavily discounted. Because the people watching the video will go "Gigabyte PSU bad" and not pay attention. So I can get 850W Bronze PSUs for $32

[elfin mural]

it can harm performance

[velvet summit]

The thing I hate about social media is that not only that happens, but a fair bit of people take something they saw as Gospel and keep saying something is bad even though they've never used it, and didn't fact check it

But to be fair, I have technically done this sometimes, though only if I have enough evidence to do so, or if I'm not certain I would make it clear that I'm not certain

[elfin mural]

i just find it ironic after finding out that high polling rate on mice is a marketing gimmick

people still blindly cheer on for everyone to go for high polling rate

[tranquil pebble]

Now, worse than average support and RMA processes ARE grounds for dismissing a brand

[elfin mural]

125hz already reports enough inputs more often than any human could tangibly make an input lol

[olive plaza]

Only if you're a new component buyer

[velvet summit]

NGL I think the main cause of people thinking that all gigabyte PSUs are bad are all caused by people who were just meming on it and the people unaware are assuming it was the truth

[tranquil pebble]

fr nobody needs a 10,000 Hz mouse

[elfin mural]

imma die on this 125hz polling rate hill

cuz it has proven to me that it has more benefits than anything higher

[olive plaza]

If you're the type of person who builds a PC out of a mixture of new and used parts. Like, let's say today you were building an Intel 12th gen system as an upgrade from your 8700K, because of budget limits. You wouldn't shy away from a 12900K because Intel had bad RMA practices

You wouldn't care

[tranquil pebble]

yeah true

You would still want to try to avoid parts that are infamous for high failure rates ofc

[olive plaza]

Well yeah of course

[tranquil pebble]

pretty sure every brand has their stinkers

[elfin mural]

and mouse sensor.. honestly the tech has plateaued with no meaningful improvements. it's the one area that people also hyperfixate on in mice

[olive plaza]

I have anecdotal evidence that, out of the roughly 1500 PCs my day job shipped with Intel 13th-14th gen CPUs, we had approximately 3 failures that were legit

[elfin mural]

"look this has paw 3395, get it over this crappy paw 3311, the extra money is worth it dude"

the only reason i'd pay more for a mouse if it utilizes optical switches and encoder

[olive plaza]

We had more than 3 failures all together but most of the failures were as a result of people flashing their BIOS and leaving the motherboard's default power limits enabled. Which fried the CPU

Funny enough, almost every person who had that happen had said the only reason they flashed their BIOS was because they heard it needed updating from a tech friend of theirs

or from youtube

so indirectly, the fearmongering actually caused additional failures

that cost my company money

which is why I'm so fiercely against the type of content Steve makes

In my opinion I feel like he doesn't do enough clarification work and plays it up for the camera. But that's my opinion.

[elfin mural]

the more i watched gn the more i realized that he's pseudo-informational in the cases where failures happen and he blows it out of proportion

though drastic reporting has a side effect of forcing swift acts, so i'm personally on the fence on being negative on him

[velvet summit]

I think Steve started off being more informational but slowly drifted towards more sensational content because it was what works

[tranquil pebble]

I'd be more concerned with durability of the switches

[elfin mural]

that's why i want optical switches and encoders to be commonplace on every segment of mice

rn they're reserved to expensive stuff, for obvious reasons

[velvet summit]

My main thing about mice is the features pretty much

Like a side scroll wheel is so nice to have

Or an unlockable scroll wheel

[olive plaza]

He no longer does enough positives to outweigh his sensationalism, in my opinion

even though I've personally benefited from some of his stuff

like the Gigabyte PSU thing, buying the unaffected models for pennies on the dollar

I did the same thing with MSI MAG CoreLiquid coolers

[elfin mural]

fair enough

[olive plaza]

first generation had the gunking up issue which Steve uncovered

I bought the V2 models for like, under 40 bucks new for 240mm ones

[elfin mural]

his increased sensationalism has also led me to watching his vids less

[olive plaza]

because when that dropped, the community went, "MSI cooler bad"

[velvet summit]

I stopped watching GN completely around 2 years ago because it was already feeling too sensationalized for me at that point

[olive plaza]

He's made several videos about ASRock motherboards burning up AM5 chips

and never found out why

he never actually took the time to find out the core issue causing the problem

unless he published a video about it that I missed

I understand he has a business to run, he has people on payroll who need money to survive

money comes from clicks

it is what it is

Just the way he presents things it's like they're all the end of the world, and it could use a lot more proper framing and context in terms of overall industry impact

et al with the Intel thing. The way he made it sound, it was gonna be another bumpgate all over again (for the uninitiated, that's the nvidia issue which led to extremely high failure rates in NVIDIA GPUs in the 2006-2008 timeframe. Famously, macbooks had big recalls due to this)

That was like a near 100% failure rate

because the materials used to secure the GPU die down to the green PCB substrate were inappropriate, and it would lose contact

[bitter ridge]

Intel issue was not made big enough

[pliant berry]

I don't really consistently watch techtubers much. space has gotten pretty boring tbh. I only ocassionally watch an ltt vid. probably mental outlaw is my most watched but idk if you consider that a techtuber

[bitter ridge]

It's a matter of when the cpus will become unstable instead of if

If everything in the space was fine and dandy people would be complaining he is too positive all the time

[proud jackal]

https://tenor.com/view/the-bear-jon-bernthal-fork-throw-christmas-fight-gif-16950934580905300757

[bitter ridge]

1440p360hz to 4k360hz would be a decent uplift

[velvet summit]

Yeah LTT is somehow one of the only techtubers that makes content that is fun to watch sometimes
Definitely not all of it but there's an occasional one that I would click and enjoy

Though they're definitely not very informational anymore

But they're... In a way less sensational

[pliant berry]

yeah not really I place I am going to learn something

[tranquil pebble]

literally bigger blunder than the Pentium division bug IMO

[ashen swan]

I want a small phone

[olive plaza]

is it?

I'm just speaking from the thousands of PCs I've built with those processors and the 3 legitimate failures we've experienced since 13th gen launched

Which was almost 4 yrs ago

I'll let you know if we start getting dozens of claims

as of right now it's 3 out of a few thousand lol

[ashen swan]

I wanna guess the msrp

it would be insanely bad

[olive plaza]

I'm also not saying 3 out of a few thousand is acceptable. I'm just saying it's a pretty far cry from your claim of "they're all going to become unstable"

I just would have anticipated more than 3 legit claims in 4 yrs

if they were ALL going to become unstable

[elfin mural]

that's the thing with halo products

you either wait until it trickles down into cheaper skus

or pay the early adopter tax

[bitter ridge]

I ordered a black mousepad

Never getting a white one ever again because they age terribly

[ashen swan]

form who

[bitter ridge]

My local tech YouTuber merch

Made at the same factories Linus uses but more oriented for my buying power

[ashen swan]

neat

so I have landed on my laptop

[bitter ridge]

Ig shipping costs are also lower since we are china's neighbors but Canada isn't

[ashen swan]

lg refers to ?

[elfin mural]

that's a capital i

ig = i guess

[amber aspen]

Hey question do you think I should swap out the top exhaust and rear exhaust will noctua chromax gen 2 fans and leave the Arctic p14 pro reverse blade fans as side intake for a less clutter of RGB

I have the noctua 140mm chromax gen 2 fans as bottom Intake just cat see them cuz they in the basement of the hyte y60

[rancid juniper]

Lmfao, so many rayman leaks

[elfin mural]

meme mouse that only had 20 units

it's got a brass weight in it

[dusk knot]

Hm

[leaden pewter]

https://tenor.com/view/ineedit-needit-spongebob-squarepants-need-it-gif-4883495

[nocturne flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/letter-kenny-you-dont-need-it-rage-gif-13509730

[bitter ridge]

This is blasphemy

I sometimes think of putting oil on my mousepad so that it feels smoother

[elfin mural]

maybe you should get a glass pad

[dusk knot]

508 grams!!!!

You can't game with that!

[wraith fern]

no

thats a brick

[elfin mural]

it's heavy solely because it's got a big piece of brass in it

it's removable

[nocturne flicker]

Use it as a self defense weapon

Gamer gear

[nocturne flicker]

Next up, a headset with a block of steel inside one ear and made of very flexible material

[olive plaza]

Here we go

[proud jackal]

@random osprey migu migu

[proud jackal]

Buy me one pls

[nocturne flicker]

Theo_Rich

Theo_5090

[tranquil pebble]

it'd be funny if they added a new top drivatar difficulty to Forza and called it bowie knife99

[opaque sedge]

This shit gonna be expensive https://youtu.be/mCH8eLeNmuE?si=zDqwKs_U_B9goKDp

[olive plaza]

I gotchu

[proud jackal]

[olive plaza]

Just pay $900 shipping

https://tenor.com/view/shopping-wow-shocked-price-surprised-gif-11180047

[proud jackal]

[rancid juniper]

Top of the line CPU 🔥

[rancid juniper]

I really hope it happens man, further gives the game personality

[tranquil pebble]

I wonder how many threads simulating pong you would have to spawn to fully saturate 192 Epyc cores if nothing else was a bottleneck.

[rancid juniper]

65535 sessions of pong

[worn night]

@royal crow

Half a kilogram mouse lol

[royal crow]

https://tenor.com/view/thirsty-i-need-it-spongebob-gif-11796572

[icy bear]

Guys is this for $600 CAD a good deal? And is there a 6gb version of 5050 or is it a typo?

I thought it's 8gb of gddr7

[olive plaza]

https://www.acer.com/ca-en/laptops/nitro/nitro-v-15/pdp/NH.QZ9AA.003

I would trust none of the specs given Acer themselves say this laptop comes with DDR4 running at 5600MHz, Acer has no idea what's in this thing. Let alone Staples

I can't find record of a 6GB mobile version of the RTX5050 existing, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did

And well, for 600CAD that's really good, just keep your expectations in check. The mobile 5050 is listed by Techpowerup as being tied with a desktop RTX2060, but I would take that with a heavy grain of salt. Additionally the 13420H will hold that card back, even though it's only theoretically as fast as an RTX2060, as Intel's laptop CPUs are notoriously slow. They have to clock super slow in order to keep within heat requirements for laptops, because 13th/14th gen is not at all efficient in the first place

Just be sure to update the BIOS all the way to the latest if it doesn't already have it

and run the Intel processor diagnostic tool on the laptop before buying it

[heady plinth]

It's also a nitro V so it's going to be hot and loud. For $600cad though you'd have a hard time finding better. Would you be getting a used one?
The 4050m had 6gb of gddr6. The 5050m is 8gb gddr7. So if there is a typo they either messed up multiple things or it's a 4050.

[tranquil pebble]

real spec is most likely ddr5 5200 mt/s

I have a similar model but with i7 and 4060m

[rancid juniper]

big question is if that RTX 5050 isn't heavily power limited

[tranquil pebble]

it will be on a Nitro if its anything like my Nitro with 4060M

[rancid juniper]

😔

[olive plaza]

That's not a question

[tranquil pebble]

its 75w

[olive plaza]

The answer is Yes™

[rancid juniper]

max q ah gpu

[rancid juniper]

well that isn't too bad, there are cursed 4060m's that are like 35w

[olive plaza]

The Q stands for Quotient bc Nvidia divides the power by a factor of 2x to 5x lower

[rancid juniper]

thats not a 4060 anymore

[tranquil pebble]

RTX 4030 lmao

[rancid juniper]

people buying 35w 4060m got ripped off HARD

😭

[tranquil pebble]

Radeon iGPU would wipe the floor with it

[heady plinth]

If it's like 80 instead of 110 it's not that big of a deal. Doesn't degrade performance too much and the cooler is terrible anyway on all the budget models except maybe the loq.

[rancid juniper]

adding salt to the injury oof

its true

[tranquil pebble]

like literally my ROG Ally would beat it

[rancid juniper]

with an undervolt it might be better

[olive plaza]

Truth

I used to have a Lenovo with a mobile 3060, which outperformed a 4060m

Because it was allowed 75w

[rancid juniper]

bruh

[olive plaza]

Sorry I misspoke mine was 90w

[tranquil pebble]

my laptop's 4060M is enough for light VR gaming

[olive plaza]

Idea pad 3 Gaming edition with a 5600H

[rancid juniper]

its actually a crime because some laptop manufacturers don't properly label their gpu specs

they be like: "RTX 4060 8GB" and thats it

no max power listing

[tranquil pebble]

Acer tells you the wattage on their specs site

[olive plaza]

Also Acer: "DDR4 5600"

[rancid juniper]

bare minimum

[tranquil pebble]

13th gen mobile doesn't support past 5200 iirc

[heady plinth]

Kind of werid they'd be overclocking it too. It's supported up to 5200 natively.

[rancid juniper]

intel nerf moment

[nocturne flicker]

It's nerf and nothing

[rancid juniper]

hey jimmy give this dude a whole lotta nothing

[tranquil pebble]

that 32 GB is wrong too. Real max is 96 GB IIRC

even if it is ddr4 it would be 64 GB max

[heady plinth]

It would depend on bios/microcode.

[rancid juniper]

checking my laptop cpu for example (R7 8845hs) it shows a whopping 256gb

[upper wedge]

Got me wondering what my specs are

[rancid juniper]

go check bruv

[heady plinth]

Mine is max 32gb because it's soldered on the package.

[rancid juniper]

in order to unlock my 4060m's max power limit i need to use this bloatware called "Omen Gaming Hub" and nothing else

[nocturne flicker]

[rancid juniper]

if not the gpu will cap around 80w iirc

[tranquil pebble]

reminder that AMD made a GPU that used an SSD as a pseudo VRAM extension

super cursed card

[rancid juniper]

not even 3200

[nocturne flicker]

Nope

[nocturne flicker]

And Plundervolt locked

[upper wedge]

Kinda crappyish

[rancid juniper]

😡

[upper wedge]

I gotta find out my max power draw too for the 8gb “5070”

[rancid juniper]

i hate plundervolt and their lame ass excuse to prevent people from undervolting their laptop cpus

[north crescent]

Like 2016 - 2017

[rancid juniper]

whats your laptop model?

[north crescent]

I think

[upper wedge]

1WH

[rancid juniper]

1 watt hour?

[upper wedge]

It’s weird, just do the one with uhh 16/32gb, 7 350ai + 5070

No

[rancid juniper]

heh jk

[tranquil pebble]

AMD is no stranger to cursed video cards

[upper wedge]

💔💔

[rancid juniper]

its the aero 16 correct? @upper wedge

[nocturne flicker]

Which is really bad because 10th gen really needed it

[upper wedge]

X16, there’s an older aero 16

[tranquil pebble]

They once used HBM in a laptop GPU that got included with an Intel CPU. That one takes the cake for cursed IMO.

[rancid juniper]

both 10th/11th gen

[tranquil pebble]

and it was severely kneecapped HBM

[rancid juniper]

chips would waste battery so fast

on idle no less

smh

[tranquil pebble]

1024 bit instead of the normal 4096 IIRC

[rancid juniper]

this is what i mean bro

no power spec

on a gigabyte site

🗿

[upper wedge]

I love gigabyte so much

[rancid juniper]

hmmmm

isn't this too low for a 5070 laptop?

[tranquil pebble]

8 GB on a 7 class is criminal

[rancid juniper]

well its still being pushed and theres nothing you can do about it
-nvidia

though this is happening

[tranquil pebble]

I remember when a 70 class would have been called high end

and 80 was basically enthusiast

[rancid juniper]

570/670/770/970/1070

[tranquil pebble]

things are so messed up now

[rancid juniper]

heh

[tranquil pebble]

exactly my point

[craggy shoal]

lol yeah 70 class used to be considered high-end

60 class was mid-end

Go back far enough and even 50 class was mid-end, I'd imagine

[tranquil pebble]

the 50 Ti maybe

[craggy shoal]

Definitely Ti

[olive plaza]

Yeah, people forget that OEMs can just decide not to support something

[tranquil pebble]

which is kinda absurd to not support something the underlying hw does

[olive plaza]

Meh

They're an OEM they have no obligation to support anything they don't sell

Support doesn't mean it won't work. Just means Acer says "we only guarantee 32GB will work, YMMV"

[tranquil pebble]

yeah I've seen an HP desktop that only supported one RAM config and refused to boot with anything else

[olive plaza]

HP is notorious for whitelists

[rancid juniper]

would be infuriating if a cpu had undervolting support and the OEM blocks it
or if there's an nvme slot but the OEM cherrypicks which nvme drives are "compatibile"

💰

[velvet summit]

giggleybite

[opaque sedge]

A lot of people (prolly old builders who recently upgraded their builds) still seem to think 70 class cards are high end

[opaque sedge]

[olive plaza]

NVIDIA moved the bar when 90 class came out with RTX3000

[rancid juniper]

90 cards are supposed to be Titan cards

they ruined it

[velvet summit]

my zephrus has a 76wh battery too for a 3070ti

[nocturne flicker]

80 class shall become entry level because every other class below will be deleted and there'll only be a limited number made to be sold at lottery for $2k each

[opaque sedge]

[rancid juniper]

how much for AC adapter power?

[velvet summit]

TWO HUNDRED AND FOURTY WATTS

[rancid juniper]

BIG

[nocturne flicker]

SMOL

[opaque sedge]

Damn the newly announced intel handhelds have a bigger battery than ur laptop

[rancid juniper]

yea thats enough for a 3070ti laptop

[tranquil pebble]

there was a laptop that used an AM4 socket before

[opaque sedge]

Woah

[velvet summit]

my igpu laptop i'm getting has a bigger battery than my laptop

it would have 86 watt hours

[opaque sedge]

What laptop

[velvet summit]

thinkpad t16 gen 4 (arrow lake)

[opaque sedge]

Yeah thats size of the batteries on the upcoming intel handhelds

💀

[opaque sedge]

How much

[velvet summit]

1.7k cad

[opaque sedge]

Damn

Which igpu?

[rancid juniper]

all that for just 2 hours of gaming

[velvet summit]

not a good one

[opaque sedge]

At low settings below 60fps

[tranquil pebble]

https://videocardz.com/press-release/eurocom-nightsky-arx315-laptop-features-up-to-16-core-amd-ryzen-9-5950x-am4-cpu

and that wasn't even the only one

[opaque sedge]

And 56% resolution scaling

AT 1080p

[tranquil pebble]

must be thermal throttling 24/7 though

[opaque sedge]

[rancid juniper]

Thats a hot top

[velvet summit]

oh shit they're bringing back socketed laptops

[opaque sedge]

Could it even reliably power the ryzen 9s?

[opaque sedge]

No he linked an old article

Unless u found a new one?

[tranquil pebble]

probably with heavy throttling

[velvet summit]

oh

i am eating an orange

🍊

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

[velvet summit]

orange you glad i didn't say banana

[tranquil pebble]

there used to be laptops with GTX 1080 SLI too

absolutely bonkers

[olive plaza]

Oh yeah some of the Sager/Clevo models were wild

desktop class CPUs

[opaque sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/james-doakes-doakes-curious-suspicious-questioning-gif-14390669560130901665

[craggy shoal]

Bruh 2010s tech was like the 2000s era for German cars

[opaque sedge]

Damn what kind of batteries did those things have

[olive plaza]

The same kind they use in electric cars now

[opaque sedge]

Lithium ion?

Damn evs are taking our batteries

[olive plaza]

It was a joke about an SLI laptop needing a battery the size of an EV

[craggy shoal]

"Forget form. Let's stuff a desktop GPU in a laptop and make it like 10cm thick" the same as "let's put a V10 TDI in a family SUV"

[opaque sedge]

https://klipy.com/gifs/wwe-john

[heady plinth]

We should go back to laptops with two batteries. And one is externally accessible and you can hotswap them while the smaller internal one takes over.

[opaque sedge]

Dont macbook pros have like 4 battery packs in em

[tranquil pebble]

pretty sure even liquid cooled laptops have been tried

[heady plinth]

I think they have a really weird shaped battery is all. Like it's a bunch of littel batteries so they can squeeze it into the available space but it's functionally 1 battery.

[tranquil pebble]

multiple cell configuration yeah

[heady plinth]

I meant one like this, no screws or anything just a spring latch. And it has a backup battery inside so you can just swap this out.

WEll that one's a dell and I don't know if they had that feature. Lenovo did but I don't have one laying around.

[olive plaza]

Dell was among the first to offer modularly replaceable batteries

the Latitude C series started it all

and this is like, around 1999 with a Pentium II mobile

Two bays in the front of the laptop which could each accept a battery, a CD drive, a floppy drive, ZIP drive, secondary hard drive...

so you could equip them both with batteries if you wanted

the true predecessor to the Framework

[heady plinth]

A real keyboard and more than 2 usb ports too. Modern high end laptops kind of suck.

[olive plaza]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude#Latitude_C_series

[tranquil pebble]

Dell ruined the latitude series IMO

[olive plaza]

if anybody has a late model Dell C series laptop, like a C600 or higher, I'd love to own one

they were super popular 25 yrs ago

[tranquil pebble]

There is no reason for there to be Latitudes that are 2 in 1s

[heady plinth]

I ended up getting a slim 7i aura for work. Would have rather had a thinkpad e14 but they don't sell the lunar lake with the high res screen in the US.
Very glossy, a bit thinner than I'd like but other than that it's okay. The 9i they don't even give you a usb-a or hdmi and a lot of other high end models don't either. Some don't even have a combo jack.

[upper wedge]

I thought so too

Gigabyte also has a 5070 12gb model

[heady plinth]

Are the 5070m 12gb out yet?

[upper wedge]

https://www.gigabyte.com/Laptop/GIGABYTE-AERO-X16-EG64H/sp

[upper wedge]

Some are

[velvet summit]

Every company had to make 2 in 1s for some reason

[upper wedge]

I wonder if I can shove a bigger battery with a similar size into the laptop

[velvet summit]

Even ThinkPads have 2 in 1 variants still

I saw one someone using one in my college 3 days ago

[tranquil pebble]

yeah but they didn't have to shoehorn that into the business line

[velvet summit]

Wait they made all of them 2 in 1s?

[tranquil pebble]

no

[velvet summit]

What's the difference then
ThinkPads are the business line too

🧐

[heady plinth]

It was the craze for a while. I'll be happy when they quit obsessing over thinner and lighter. I want ports and a battery and a keyboard with good travel. I don't care about being 1mm thinner than last year.

[velvet summit]

I only found out the XPS 13 only has 2 ports on the entire laptop and that's crazy to me

[heady plinth]

The new xps have a terrible keyboard too. Just square tile keycaps with almost no gaps and the whole thing is flat so there is no indexing.

[velvet summit]

What

They removed the nubs?

[tranquil pebble]

Latitude line was discontinued last year

[rancid juniper]

neat

[velvet summit]

Wait what

Damn

[wraith fern]

this thing

[tranquil pebble]

Dell calls their business models "Dell Pro" now

[velvet summit]

💀

[tranquil pebble]

cringe ngl

[heady plinth]

You still get the jf but that's it.

[velvet summit]

They finished making their logos minimalist now they're making their names minimalist too

[tranquil pebble]

they also ofc shoehorned copilot nonsense into them

[heady plinth]

That's just mandatory now. Windows is going to let you rebind the key into something useful like back into right alt though. So... progress.

[proud jackal]

We're doomed

[heady plinth]

It's n1x cpus right?

[dusk knot]

whats this????

[tranquil pebble]

oh there is one Latitude model line left... and its cringe

grossly overpriced

also "Dell Pro Max"