Crucial never sold GDDR RAM.

These aren’t massive companies. They’re startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)

Amazon has some no name brands for not insane money. But used you can get actual flir stuff for pretty cheap. Especially those phone attachment cameras. Just know as “technology progresses” they might stop working with new OS versions.

Is yours an i5 model or an i7? Mine is an i5 and it’s worthless as soon as it gets hot. But my friend got an i7 model and it’s amazing what a fan can do. Just having any cooling makes a huge difference.

There’s 3D models for clips to strap a fan to the back of the machine and let me tell ya, it does wonders. They should have never shipped one of these without a fan. They thankfully fixed that on the SP8 and up, but that doesn’t help us much.

For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.

Just like 10, windows 11 reserves a lot of ram, but it’s not really using it. When you need more ram it will unload a lot of things. It’s just sometimes too damn slow at it, especially on a device like a surface which has pretty pokey hardware. (Despite on paper it supposedly being much better)

You can try those de bloat scripts. Instead of waiting for windows to unload the shit you can just stop it from loading in the first place. On a VM of mine it made a pretty big difference, but on my SP7 it seemed to not work(?) it didn’t seem to do much. I’m generally not a fan of those though because they tend to break a lot of things. Like one of them turns off hibernation which is a huge no no on modern standby devices.

Are now? Haven’t they been using flash first?

Hard drives suck for that work load. Their seek times are huge, their throughput is awful, and they’re worse storage density than HDDs. You can fit 24 2.5" ssds into a 2u server. 16TB in a 2.5" > 24TB in 3.5" SSDs were first to skyrocket in price vs HDDs.

Define “best on the market work station”. I’ve used 11 on a 10th gen ulv i5 laptop and it ran just fine, no worse than with 10 on it.

From the minor direct X improvements, all the way to actually supporting hybrid CPU architectures and 6ghz there’s a lot of ways 11 performs better.

11 uses barely more resources than end of the run windows 10.

Hell half the reason I upgraded for certain games and programs.

I just use a webcam as a mic. Not great for background noise, but I can stand all the way on the other side of the room and just talk loudly if someone needed to hear me.

Who knew: watching your child doing meth will still get them hooked on doing meta. (Not sure why autocorrect changes it to meta but I’m leaving it)

Sure, but they’ve always done well at that. What they don’t do is anything else.

Arc GPUs are pretty good in windows. But almost unusable in Linux. And laptop IGPUs are all based on ARC now so they really need that work.

Thank god. Their drivers are great for “media acceleration” but holy shit can they suck for gaming or anything intensive.

You can always put them in AP only mode and get a dedicated router running your OS of choice. If your internet speeds suck then anything made in the last 10 years should be plenty. But if you’ve got a gigabit connection and lots of simultaneous connections you may need to find something that’s not bottom of the barrel.

Good news is that gigabit internet has been relatively common for 10+ years so you can find old high end devices for the same price as old shitty ones. WiFi AC routers are basically worthless at this point so finding a nice one cheap isnt an issue. And if you’re using the newer nicer google ones for WiFi then the fact it’s an old slower standard doesn’t matter.

Yes, yes they are.

I’m not qualified to explain this well. But there’s the concept of velocity of money. The higher velocity that’s supposed to mean the economy is doing good. Generally it’s between lots of people so it’s spread out. In this case it’s only between a small handful of companies, and as soon as it starts drying up then bad things can happen really quickly.

Yes, yes they do. And many are considering that they’re doing this.

Why would that make you an asshole?

TPM is built into every 8th Gen. Intel and Ryzen 2000/3000 series CPUs.

7th Gen. and older machines are pretty dire by modern standards unless you had a top of the line i7, or an HEDT equivalent (did they still make those then?). 1st Gen. Ryzen suuucks for single core performance, but for video editing it’s probably ok. But you’d have to pick your codecs carefully. Even modern CPUs chug with certain codecs.

Apple causes most of the shortages of new process nodes because they almost always buy them LONG before they’re ready. Any time TSMC has a new node they buy out their entire supply for months.

Even if it’s windows 11 that they meant then what are they doing professionally that runs at acceptable speeds?

If this is actually for work where you get paid money you’d probably be better off financing a new computer and doubling your output.