SODIMM is stalled out at around 6400 MT/s and is being completely replaced by CAMM after the DDR5 generation.
Well, I meant laptop DIMMs in general. I wonder how big the market demand really is for user-serviceable laptops. Apple gambled that none of their customers really cared that much and seem to have been right.
Funny i just stumbled on that;
I know its a tiny part of the video but...
Unfortunately I don't. You could buy something that's not a computer PSU (probably Chinese) and then try to fix up the ripple with capacitors packed into the remaining available spaces, as well as have a separate 5 volt board and do the on/off control yourself, but that's getting really tricky.
Don't cheap out on your power supply. If something goes wrong, it can permanently damage the other components in your system, thereby costing you a lot more than $200 you would have spent on the PSU. If you need to shave money off the cost of the project, choose a less expensive GPU or CPU.
this.
It can also cause very unusual system behavior that'll make your life hell to troubleshoot as you'll be swapping components and screwing around with the BIOS for potentially a very long time before finally suspecting the PSU. I only found out my PSU was defective after a GPU upgrade caused the system to go from mildly unstable to downright non-functional.
That's not what market demand means.
Agreed but if they had a replaceable battery that would still be a selling point to some. I know batteries are better than they used to be for longevity. And capacity. I remember having two for my Dell laptop - the original one that came with it then a double size one that actually put the entire laptop at an angle like it was a stand. I'd take both with me because I could get about three to four hours out of the regular and an amazing five to sex out of the double size one. It had a little button on the side you could press to make its indicator light come on and show you the charge. The original battery was just lousy after about a year and a half.
I disagree. If I had to buy a new laptop right now, batter life would be the least of my concerns, because there are power outlets EVERYWHERE now. Sure, finding one back in the day was a pain because when houses and buildings were built, there weren't many things that needed to be plugged in. But we went from telephones that required no power to phones that each require their own outlet to plug their charging brick into. Even my truck has a 120v outlet in the center console. We aren't in the days of scarce power outlets anymore. If you can sit down somewhere nowadays, you'll more likely than not find an outlet within reach of the power cord.
Yet every laptop review goes on and on and on about battery life. This new laptop can only go seven hours playing back movies - what a failure! AMD could have built their new chips around performance but heavily favoured efficiency. Variable power options in them mean laptop manufacturers can choose what voltage to run the CPU at when they make the chip yet many of them don't all crank it up to max but deliberately run many of their ranges lower. You may not care about battery life but manufacturers and chip makers are clearly competing on it as one of if not the biggest factors.
they're not expensive because they need the quality, they're expensive because of the mini atx tax, where everyone will puff up prices because people doing those kinds of rigs tend to dish out that kinda cash. there's PSUs with double the rating that are half that price.
Always good to keep a spare or two around just in case.
I wasn't sure what CPU you were using, but if that is the case then 400W is probably fine as long as you don't have any other components that are drawing a ton of power. But yeah, that is the good thing about building your own chassis; you aren't restricted by the form factor of any of your components.
Because it's a consumer holdover from the old days. Consumers will also stare at you dead in the face and say that they NEED 32 to 64 GB of ram in their web browsing/document typing laptop, while 16GB would run them just fine. Same as the battery. In the old days, you may have needed it. Nowadays, you can make do with 1 to 2 hours of battery life just fine because we simply do more of the things we used to do on laptops on our phones. We don't sit on the couch scrolling through myspace or chatting on AOL. We use our phones for that, so the amount of time we need to use our computers away from a plug is close to nil for a lot of people.
You only think that because you’ve never experienced a laptop with a decent battery life. Try a MacBook for a week, you won’t be able to go back. You’ll see Windows users who’ve deluded themselves into thinking that tethering their portable computer to a power outlet within five seconds is acceptable for the lunatics they are.
