Mr. Fox

It has Fluent Design and round corners now so, yes... it HAS TO BE better now. The people complaining that it is slower are trolls that have not learned that they should appreciate form over function. 🤣🙊🙈🙉

And, we all know what they say about payback. 😉

At a time where there is only bad news, hard economic times, astronomical inflation, incompetent leadership and so much less to be thankful for than normal, it is nice to see at least something trending the right way. What is happening to crypto and GPU pricing as a pleasant byproduct are certainly like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day. The Digital Gold Rush - 5 Ways Bitcoin Helps Organized Crime Crypto money laundering rises 30%, report finds What is cryptocurrency and how does it work? If you own cryptocurrency, you don’t own anything tangible. What you own is a key that allows you to move a record or a unit of measure from one person to another without a trusted third party.

It is humorous to see impressive sounding names applied to such unimpressive products. "Predator" and "Zephyrus" and "Titan" immediately come to mind, but there are other examples. They should have more fitting names like "Prey" and "Milktoast" or "Space Heater" instead based on their specifications, performance and user experience. In the end they're all going to be worthy of titles such as "door stop" and "paper weight" LOL. With insanely expensive CPU/GPU/mobo integration and nothing within financial or practical reason being worthy of repairs or upgrades, they're all disposable one-shot wonders that overheat, thermal throttle and ultimately represent an extrordinarly foolish cash expenditure.

another crisis... *yawn* I'm so scared

As long as so-called self-anointed "experts" have a defective view of what goodness looks like we can expect the retarded masses to have a defective view. Sheeple follow shepherd's that lead from behind. Their flock represent the lowest common denominators of the human race. It is a big flock and having possession of what used to be average intelligence qualifies one as being elite, superior and extraordinary.

That is what happens when 99 out of 100 people buying laptops, maybe 999 out of 1000, lack the technical knowledge or skill to do that, and an even smaller number have the mental capacity to comprehend why it matters. Being an idiot is the norm today.

This is attractive to OEMs because it greatly enhances their abilities in terms of planned obsolescence and revenue generation. There is no easier way to ensure repeat sales than to make everything available for purchase a disposable piece of garbage that is unrepairable and upgrade resistant.

Best advice... Resist the urge to fix what isn't broken. If it isn't already broken from the last cancer cell injection, it will be once you "update" to their latest digital filth.

Interesting. I've never encountered this at all. Is this on a laptop using a mobile driver or desktop computer? Neither one of my desktops experience this issue with Windows 7, Windows 10 LTSC 2019, Windows 10 LTSC 2021 or Winduhz 11. Most of the installations are non-DCH drivers. Is the affected system hybrid graphic or exclusively NVIDIA GPU? (It could be something with the Intel iGPU driver or hybrid graphics causing the issue.)

I traveled for years with 17 and 18 inch beasts and an employer-provided laptop and other gear. I loved every minute of it. I would not have wanted it any other way. Was never a problem and totally worth it. Anybody that is so addicted to playing games that can't last through a flight in coach seating and cannot wait however long it takes to reach their hotel room has issues that require professional assistance. A thin and light piece of crap suitable for gaming in such terribly cramped quarters is only going to mask their problem while it festers without getting the professional help that it deserves.

It would have to be a pretty crazy price cut for it to not be really stupid to buy a new RTX 30-series GPU this close to 40-series launch. I suppose if the price drop was massive enough (like 50-60% drop) it would make sense, but either way they are rolling the dice. I wouldn't buy a 4090 even if I were wanting to spend money on a new GPU. They already showed us that they were back-stabbers by releasing the 3090 Ti, so anyone that would have bought a 4090 under normal circumstances is probably going to wait for a 4090 Ti to avoid getting stabbed in the back a second time. It was not only a stab in the back for consumers, but also a kick in the gonads for the AIB partners that now have 3090 Ti stock that is going to be obsolete in a matter of days. It would have been smart for them to have not manufactured any so close to the 40-series launch. But, I don't know if the Green Goblin will allow them to make a decision to choose not to participate in a product launch. I feel bad for anyone that bought a 3090 Ti, especially if it was not a reference PCB. Any special versions (i.e. Kingpin, FTW3, Strix, etc.) are likely to have no options for water blocks. It would be stupid for companies like Bykski, EKWB and others to manufacture water blocks for a product that became obsolete within 90 days of its public release date.

I wasn't aware that there was any place where they still offered same-day delivery. It used to be common in Phoenix, but that ended 4 or 5 years ago. Some items are available the next day (tomorrow) depending on what time of day you place your order today. It is extremely rare that I do not receive an Amazon order on the day expected. Once in a while something arrives a day late, and I suspect that happens due to an unreliable delivery person, or they got sick, or the Amazon delivery van broke down. (They do not maintain their fleet properly. They run those delivery vans ragged, and some of them aren't even safe to drive.)

Everything is made for gutless wusses now. It wasn't that long ago that I experienced the joy of exhausting the capacity of my dual 330 watt AC adapter setups and craving more. It's all garbage now, made by sissy-boy idiots for those gutless wusses. It amazes me that people are willing to spend their money on castrated trashbooks. That takes some serious brain damage. The bar has never been set lower than it is now. It's a small miracle that most of this trash will even function as marginally as it does.

Maybe it is another one of those nefarious and cockamamie treehugger ideas for all laptops to become such worthless trash that everyone will become so frustrated with the garbage they will switch to using smartphones exclusively to conserve energy. Kind of like the Orwellian approach of implementing extremely stupid and idiotic ideas and deliberately doing bad things that are against the best interests of society in order to cause the price of gasoline and diesel fuel to become so expensive that everyone will magically accept electric cars.

Here is something extreme... extremely overpriced...

Mine is not being used. I will put an ad in the Marketplace if either of you want it. I am trying to break my bad habit of hoarding PC components that I am not using, LOL. Check the motherboard in the Amazon photos. It has IDE, parallel and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) ports. There are probably some folks in our community that are not even sure what those things are. 🙂

That seems to be par for the course now, doesn't it? A very high percentage of the tech advice that I see being given is flawed, based on lack of knowledge, personal bias and mostly worthless. The people receiving it generally are unable to identify bad advice because they just don't know anything. They embrace it on the basis that person giving it is trustworthy and knows more than they do. While there could be a degree of truth to that assumption, the giver and the receiver don't know what they don't know. It is a classic example of the blind leading the blind. And, we all know that old expression about the road to hell being paved with good intentions.

NVIDIA hasn't been cooperating with production of MXM for a long time. They figured out with the Pascal generation that they could make a lot more money off of laptop manufacturers selling disposable turdbooks than they could with them selling upgradable and repairable systems.

Clevo started circling the drain when the P870 was discontinued. They've always had issues with quality control and lousy firmware that ruined the performance of their systems, but with some tinkering, a bit of modding, and a @Prema BIOS mod you ended up with something amazing. The tinkering and modding was part of the fun. But, the chintzy crap they're offering now is totally inexcusable. There's not enough modding in the world that is going to make up for the shortcomings. The BGA GPU is an absolutely unpardonable sin.

A lot of people used to say that you should never put a desktop CPU in a laptop. I've always disagreed at that, and I still do. There's no reason you can't or shouldn't. That's just stupid. What you shouldn't do is buy a laptop that isn't designed correctly. Oops. None of them are designed correctly anymore. None of them have the thermal management or engineering that they deserve. It doesn't matter whether they have a 25 watt CPU or a 250 watt CPU, they're all made like crap now. It's unfortunate because there's no excuse for it. Oh wait, it needs to be thin and light... Yeah, that's the ticket.

I am not sure of a reason I should care. There could be some reason that I should care about it that I am not aware of. Maybe just as a act of defiance, since Intel doesn't want me to have it. Other than that, probably not.