If it’s anything like their windows driver support then also awful. Maybe things have improved in the last year or so, but has Qualcomm ever put real effort into making ARM Windows laptops good?

5 has long overstayed its welcome.

Their passwordless login system is annoying as hell. I think I’d rather an actual paywall for all articles and a normal password over that system.

Interesting that it maintains compatibility both ways. Other companies have done stuff like this in the past. I know Apple GPUs that had ADC had an extra pin further down from the connector. But that extra foot could get in the way of components.

They’ll somehow make the client 32 bit but still need a 64 bit computer.

Absolute innovation. Nobody has ever done something like this before.

You can build one, but it’s going to be everything you don’t want.

Devices like that are only so compact and sleek because every component was built/picked exactly for that spot. They knew what had to fit around what.

A hobbyist building their own thing is stuck picking stuff up off the shelf. None of that will fit as tightly together as the steam deck.

I’m guessing they’re all just behind an internal hub.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/chipsets/am5.html

The x870e chipset only provides 2 20gbit ports (type c only) 12 10gbit and 2 5gbit ports. No idea how the USB 4 ports fit into the equation, but I think the 2 are mandatory.

Per the article as long as you’re not on pre release firmware it shouldn’t be an issue. When I got the drive it didn’t fail on my write test, nor did it fail the test after updating the firmware so it seems fine.

It’s in a laptop I really don’t care about. Worst case it becomes a Linux only SSD and put the old drive back into that laptop.

I hope that’s the case because I picked up one of these drives for CHEAP on clearance.

I tried to make it fail before migrating my install over but even with over 60 gigs of data copied it had no issues.

My Thinkpad P1’s is soldered :( At least that came with a good Intel Wireless card.

But somehow on my T14s (a much smaller machine) it wasn’t soldered.

But then on the bigger T14 it is soldered. So I have no clue what is going on at Lenovo. At least the machines with good wifi cards are soldered, and the shit ass ones are

There’s no drm on band camp

105c is the max operating temperature. It’s not going to run away the second it hits 106.

Your CPU starts throttling at 104c so that way it almost never hits at 105c for long If it can’t maintain clocks then it drops them until 104c can mostly be maintained.

Seagate has more than bad batches. When every single one of their 1tb per platter barracuda drives have high failure rates then that’s a design/long term production issue.

Why? It’s designed to run up to 105c.

I think it was when AMDs 7000 series CPUs were running at 95c and everyone freaked out that AMD came out and said that the CPUs are built to handle this load 24/7 365 for years on end.

And it’s not like this is new to Intel. Intel laptop CPUs have been doing this for a decade now.

AMDs 7000 series CPUs were designed to boost until they hit 95c, then maintain those temps. 9000 series behaves differently for boosting, but the silicon can handle it.

Not all laptops have replaceable wireless cards. If you have a thinner machine they probably soldered it on. But I can’t find any rhyme or reason to what manufacturers do and don’t solder.

We need equality in the gaming space.

We should shame everyone who plays games on phones equally.

That article is a year old and is missing the latest generation of cards. Neither AMD nor Nvidia produce those GPUs anymore. AMDs best GPU from their 9000 series competes with Nvidias 5070/5070ti. The 5090 and 5080 are unmatched.

Nvidia is the only real option for AI work. Before Trump lifted the really restrictive ban on GPUs to china they had to smuggle in GPUs from the US, and if you’re Joe Schmo the only GPUs you can really buy are gaming ones. That’s why the 5090 has been selling so well despite it being 2k and not all that much better than the 4090 in gaming.

Also AMD has no high end GPUs, and Intel barely has a mid range GPU.