Etern4l

No, mine is in line with TBW.

More Noctua iPPC fans. Channeling the childhood dream of becoming a jet pilot, or at least a frequent flyer.

And that was a essentially a sale, since you purchased previous gen hardware. $4500 spent on a desktop a month ago would yield 2-3x the GPU power (and more VRAM) and roughly 2x the CPU power, not to mention the improvements in the RAM department. Yes, if you absolutely need a laptop or just love them, then you spend what you have to spend, and time your purchases as best you can - just highlighting the ridiculous absence of value there compared to desktops.

OK, even assuming some ridiculous markup of 100% over retail, how much can you shave off that price? 1500 (and I doubt that)? At $/E 5100 it would still hardly be a sensible purchase for most people, plus then you have to add the cost of purchasing your own 3rd party storage and RAM.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-Titan-GT77-HX-13V-Review-Ultimate-Gaming-Laptop-with-RTX-4090-Core-i9-13950HX.691460.0.html I mean most people should pause here. 6600 euros for a machine with a gimped 16GB 4090, that can just about match previous gen 3090 Ti desktop (again, not in terms of memory capacity). Not really that exciting TBH, unless funding is completely unlimited or one must use a laptop at all cost.

Don't need to justify getting an ebike in most places in Canada except inner cities, or during Tour de France prep, I imagine. Vast distances. Does the European 250W power limit also apply?

The behaviour may well vary depending on the distro. I wouldn't think Manjaro is the most beginner-friendly one.

It's good security practice to set pernissions on per directory basis. Only root user will have permissions to the relative root of the filesystem, so you have to use sudo command to create a directory on the drive and give yourself ownership and permissions to use it: cd to the root of the mounted drive sudo mkdir games sudo chown reciever games sudo chmod u+rwx games There might be a way to mount the filesystem such that to grant your user ownership too. You can probably achieve the above using some GUI file managers, as long as you are clear on the concept of *nix file ownership and permissions (user/group/others). HTH

I do like MATE - light, yet quite configurable and pleasing. Have fun.

If you don't manage to get anything tighter to work, it's hard to beat the Impacts for compatibility and reliability: https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/KF432S20IBK2_64.pdf

Sure, but then you are in charge of physical and network security.

@kojack Cool, what are the current favorable Photoshop replacements BTW? Always good to know. If native Linux versions exist, I would have very few upfront performance worries.

For most people, none of this is of any concern as most people are not PC enthusiasts, power users, and consequently they don't buy gaming/power laptops. @serpro69 's wiife needs a machine for data science, and as the name implies, this often involves dealing with a lot of data, thus RAM capacity and performance tends to come into play more so than in many other domains. More generally, getting a system to utilise more than 16GB of RAM is quite straightforward, especially for people who use the devices for work, and clearly the halved RAM bandwidth past 16GB and suboptimal performance overall are not ideal. I wouldn't touch that product. Of the two evils, better to get a machine with 32GB dual channel soldered, or obviously just with two SODIMMs. Unfortunately laptops rarely support more than 2 SODIMMs or 32GB of RAM, so once memory requirements reach that barrier it will be time to drop $6k on a Precision, or swap a 2kg laptop for a 20kg workstation :)

Ah, there is the Hide function - great, thanks.

That doesn't make much sense to me. DirectX is primarily a gaming API. Linux relies primarily on the professional API OpenGL, with things like Vulkan growing in popularity. Even if we are talking about hardcore application in games, I don't recall seeing a huge difference in performance when running say Heaven Benchmark in DX and GL modes (it supports both). Also, in my experience. Application GUIs are noticeably more responsive when running on Linux as opposed than Windows, and on some Linux distros you can expect to see up to ca. 30% more CPU performance from the same software running on Linux (not to mention the difference in I/O performance). Maybe you have a link to one of those videos of reference? You know, if you formulate virtually any thesis, there will be a video on YT to support it for you. If I were to do any serious photo work, my primary concern would be the lack of native Photoshop - not sure if and how well that would run on Wine, or whether any truly competitive alternatives exist (Gimp more than covers my current modest requirements, although I did some studio-level Photoshop work a while back and knew the software inside-out then). Things look better on the video editing side, e.g. there is a Linux version of Davinci Resolve. I really like the feel of Manjaro, probably one of the most fun distros to use, unfortunately in my testing about 6 months ago, it turned out to be one of the slowest, possibly due to all the cool bells and whistles, or there was an issue with Alder Lake support (although the kernel was as recent as would be expected from an Arch derivative).

That's cold... what about us here man?

One interesting thing I noticed about G.Skill RAM, other than it running on high voltage (I guess liquid cooling would be good there!) is that they show low CL, but then the other timings are markedly higher. Marketing gimmick or does this translate to real-world performance improvement? https://www.gskill.com/product/165/371/1649667031/F5-6000J3238G32GX2-TZ5K-F5-6000J3238G32GA2-TZ5K I'm going to have to try this trick with my Fury Beast. Edit: it worked! Dropped just CL from 38 to 30 and tested heavily. Stable and noticeable difference in perf...

TBH I will be surprised if the Navy etc. find anything untoward. Just sounds like an incredibly stupid way of conducting espionage...

Yeah, the robust RAM support was one of the many selling points for me, as it was clear that getting a 4xDDR5 DIMM config to work faster than 4000 or 4400 MHz could be a challenge. MSI's RAM compatibility list looked more impressive than those of comparable Asus, GB and AsRock boards. I would say that MSI delivered somewhat well on that front, with no issues in general. Some of those top-end boards were out of the races for me based on feature gaps, such as all the 2-DIMM ones (although such boards are not unreasonable for most people, given the current performance penalty involved in using 4 DDR5 sticks).

Thanks for catching me up. Interesting. Ideally there would be a way to bring the craft down for a quick safety inspection. Hopefully this isn't how WWIII starts...

How do we know the balloon is in fact Chinese, and not say Russian - designed to provoke tensions, or some sort of hoax? Where did it come from? Where is it going? Will it be possible to shoot it down over the ocean? Just some of the questions that spring to mind regarding this ridiculous story...

Fixed it for you sir See, friendship is a strange thing in that it usually requires a good level of understanding, at least one way. Put another way, Linux can be quite friendly, but it's somewhat picky about its friends. I am not sure what you mean by a personal station? Perhaps your requirements are unrealistic? I don't think Linux can clip your nails for instance. More seriously though, while Linux excels on the server, it can these days serve as a great workstation, while beating the hell out of Windows on performance. It can get more difficult to get to work with very recent laptops though, mostly because the user has no say in what components are used. That said, certain laptop lines from Dell and Lenovo (not to mention one or two niche Linux laptops brands) support Linux out of the box.

Actually that kind of makes sense. Alphacool doesn't really specialize in laptop products, and if the paste is very thick, it requires high heatsink pressure, which laptops typically lack. Anyway the paste is holding up so far (in conjunction with a serous cooling upgrade) which is always good.

Same with the MEG ACE, steady progress with each BIOS upgrade, which has been pleasantly surprising, even though it would have been ideal if they had got everything right at launch ;)

Twitter: Number of staff suing goes up daily - lawyer