Really I'm just happy it'll give me a web browser, not really relying on it too hard, but that is indeed good to know. It's just nice having a backup
Yeah... Mine's a DIY case, so I've only got myself to blame for not predicting that GPUs would grow so obscenely fat. I did design it around watercooling so it'll still fit a 2.5 slot aircooled card, but the 4090 is like 3.5 slots and ultra long, so... Fortunately a lot of that length is just heatsink, so once I get a water block it'll actually be a significantly shorter GPU than my 6900XT, which is also super long and half the PCB is unpopulated because apparently ASUS decided that a "flowthrough heatsink" is too fancy a feature for a lowly AMD GPU. I think the GPU will fit in the case if I remove the front braces, and front/top and side panel, otherwise I'll unscrew the bifurcation card and just lay the GPU down on a book or something until I can get it watercooled.
AMD iGPUs are pretty solid for games, but last I checked Intel actually had a few compatibility issues. Arc's existence has fixed some of that, but don't be too disappointed if some of your games refuse to launch.
Really as long as it can work on a temporary basis until I get the card, life is good. And to be fair, my laptop hasn't had issues with its IGPU so far, so I have a idea what I can run. I'm not planning on running a simulation of the heat death of the universe even with the card, so I think I'll be fine
It almost feels like we're back in the netburst days. Except back then, Intel eventually released Core and even won over Apple. These days I don't know what their gameplan is.
That seems fine to me. Maybe consumers have unrealistic expectations of laptops, seeing as they buy almost 3x of them than desktops, and often leave them on the desk forever. And the OEMs feel the pain because of that.
I say we dupe them into trying to pull a Core series with Itanium just to watch the insanity unfold
They are trying to push AVX10 to fix the AVX-512 mess, and are rumored to be ditching hyperthreading for "rentable units" within a couple generations. Maybe they can have another Itanium moment.
Dafuk is a rentable unit? You have to pay a subscription to use all your cores?
No, it's just really unfortunately named.
Some new type of way to assign instructions to cores, replacing SMT hyperthreading (2 threads per core for Intel CPUs):
They can't just admit Arm did it right with SVE and copy it.
Yep. Either way it'll probably solve a lot of the issues I've had with e-cores, since to the OS you're no longer dealing with separate cores of wildly different capability, but one really big super-high performance core that handles the division of labour internally. If Intel can make it work it could make them competitive in the server market again. I don't have high hopes though.
Skimming around the latest professional guesstimates, MacOS is about 30% of desktop OS marketshare in the US. Considering how much more expensive Mac hardware is, you know shit is fucked up in win86 land for it to be losing so much ground.
The major upsell for the iMac is the display. A Mac Mini + a prosumer-grade 4K monitor with muh accurate colors is already going to put you in the ballpark of an iMac price-wise but with a far less cohesive experience. And if you want the nearest fully cohesive Apple experience with a Mac Mini, you'll be paying more than $2000 to get a Mini plus Apple Studio Display.
