If you buy from a site with a very good return policy like AliExpress or Amazon and read the listing very carefully for inconsistencies or red flags, you should be fine. But I was able to get a Lenovo m73 Tiny off Facebook marketplace, so check there first for something fairly new and powerful (unless stabbing is an issue)
They are, they're just really, really expensive.
I use a Minisforum for my media center. S'alright, aside from the fact that it took me like 2 hours to figure out how to deactivate secure boot.
They do make those with M.2 sleds for normal people. The controller is still going to be expensive, and the cables, etc.
Is the laptop power management Intel thing due to single threading? Because I tend to agree. As long as I'm not doing too crazy with my i5, it can last on battery for quite a bit, and it's not a big laptop, the battery isn't huge.This hasn't really been true in laptops. A major reason for this is that in laptop, the overall power management strategy and the design of the laptop itself matters a lot in total power efficiency, so efficiency benchmarks are often counterintuitive to what you'd think they'd be based on which chip was fabricated on which process node. The R9 8945 HS is, on a flop-per-watt level, under identical loads and identical clock speeds, more efficient than any Intel CPU on the chart (5% better than the Core Ultra 7, according to a chart in the article). But of course, things aren't identical, and in quite a few benchmarks, the specific ASUS ROG laptop it's in ends up gobbling a lot of power.
Example, Intel's new Core Ultras consume significantly less power when idling than AMD's do, despite using a less efficient compute-per-watt chiplet design. That probably won't affect these specific benchmarks, but it's a good example of laptop power management that you don't really care about in desktops or servers.
Source: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-R...r-crunching-and-GPU-performance.802637.0.html
I mean it will when you're streaming 1080p video with the brightness up. Still you should be able to make it through a 2 hour movie with a hour to spare in my experience.
That sounds like pretty crappy battery life.
It's a small buisness laptop running win 11. It's battery is tiny and runs hot because small fan. That said, it does get through a entire movie on battery. It could be worse. I'm always told a x86 laptop is supposed to die 30 seconds after you unplug it from the wall.
Wasn't the interconnect on a larger node than the rest of the chip for their CPUs? I wonder if that's the thing here too.
Intel always beat AMD on L1 cache and branch prediction.
Yes, by not flushing misses, which gave us one of the biggest security holes in the history of computing.
Why would you use a RAID card in this day and age, thats not been a thing for like 10 years bro
Because I need something to connect to the backplanes that all my drives are connected to, and all the connector cards seem to be SATA only
Explain what you mean, this sounds interesting.
Ah. The lack of SATA slots strikes again
You should get a sata expander and do software raid, that way amongst other things its definitely recoverable if the expansion card perishes
pretty sure he's using SAS drives
Wait wat? He is saying there are only sata expanders and no sas expanders? How is that even possible just type in 'sas expander' into amazon
