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3 hours ago, 8tg said:

We broke away from the 90’s with architecture segmentation for a reason, as everything got more interconnected, compatibility became an issue.

When your audience for a product is running it on sparc systems, Motorola based amigas, weird sgi stuff, PowerPC, arm, 4 different x86 processors for the same socket, stuff gets messy.

 

It won’t last in the server space, maybe for something super specific to what it’s good at. But overall I don’t see it going that far when other solutions already exist and cover a wide market rather than narrow ones.

 

Yes, but you're forgetting that times have changed. The big difference here is national independence for security reasons. 

America got the ball rolling when they fucked Huawei, and the rest of the world woke up and realized it is a massive security threat not to be independent of ARM and x86. 

700 TB... Just in time for CoD 10.

I'm guessing here, but it sounds similar to a friends issue (5900X and 3080) where the PSU couldn't cope with peak loads and was causing all sorts of intermittent crashes. 

Alternatively, as you've already surmised, if the GPU has been running okay in the past with the current hardware it would also be the GPU starting to fail. 

11 hours ago, ToboRobot said:

Summary

After failing to sell the company completely, Fractal Design the Swedish case maker, is planning to go public on the NASDAQ while the company is growing, giving investors a chance to own a piece of the company.

 

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My thoughts

Given the wsb reddit activist investors, perhaps gamers should unite and start buying shares in PC companies and running them for gamers by gamers...

 

Sources

Fractal Design announces Nasdaq IPO plans - General Business - News - HEXUS.net

Fractal intends to list its shares on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market - Fractal Gaming Group (cision.com)

Yeah, that's not what happened with WSB. WSB realised that there was an opportunity for a short-squeeze because there were a significant volume of short positions against GME. The result is history (or soon to be), as retail investors buy shares in droves it drives up the price, which means that the hedge funds holding short positions against GME are required to make their margin calls at the end of the day, and also are required to buy shares as their short positions close driving up the price of the shares.... Rinse, repeat. 

However, that said, it Fractal could still be a good investment for everyone. 

On 1/22/2021 at 8:23 PM, Master Disaster said:

Nah, what it means is that, if Google were to provide a user with a link and a summary of a news article written by Bloomberg then Google will need to pay a fee to Bloomberg (Bloomberg is just the first example I though of, replace it with any News outlet you want).

 

The implications of this are much wider than it seems on the surface though, this very section of this very forum might not be able to exist without LMG being on the line for royalty payments to every news article we link to here.

Without being an expert on the new law, wouldn't the fact that we link as a source but add additional commentary and thoughts to the link exempt the forum from having to pay? Additionally, as the links are posted by users it's likely exempt. 

Whereas Google and other search engines (such as Alexa, Siri, Cortana, etc) just regurgitate the information verbatim and therefore derive their value from others' work without paying for, or crediting the original creator.

Just so we're all clear; this would have been a design choice by Apple to ensure that the laptop was comfortable to use for extended durations away from the desk where it may be sitting on your lap, or otherwise. Not Apple deliberately gimping the laptop to sell more pro devices.

AMD could secure capacity with Samsung for next gen parts, it's not like they're bound completely to TSMC.

13 hours ago, AvMaverick said:

Summary

Amidst a series of random tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday, he has confirmed that a Tesla Autopilot will subscription is on the calendar, sometime in Early 2021. This is one of the many things you could once buy moving to a subscription package now. This comes after he announced that FSD will be going up by $2K this monday.

 

 

 

 

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This is clearly happening, and there is no workaround. This is one influential step Tesla is taking that makes the vehicle industry more service-based rather than a one-time buy. @LinusTech's prediction on items that we buy soon becoming a service is happening. As a consumer, I feel this is against consumers and more in line for companies wanting to earn more and more, and I feel it's overall impact on consumer culture will be thoroughly negative. His prediction in the heated seat subscriptions stands right here, and as a 15-year old kid, this is scary for me to plan for financially... 

 

 

 

Sources

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-fsd-monthly-subscription-release-date-elon-musk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii7hhbJFpiM&t=2s

I don't see a problem with the subscription model as a way of reducing the barrier to entry for advanced features that are constantly under development. I do, however, have an issue with BMW's approach to making heated seats, Apple CarPlay, and AWD systems subscription based when they're not adding any value whatsoever overtime and the significant costs are already included in the vehicle (unless the vehicle is discounted to reflect the fact that they're not included in the original purchase).

This generation of reference designs from Nvidia is baller. Best looking cards I've ever seen.

Uh oh 

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

Frankly, I don't know, I also don't know why the Witcher was popular... it looks so boring, and not impressive at all, yet it's considered "demanding". Similar goes for CP, mostly a mash of low poly textures, cringe animations, bugs everywhere and a complete "RGB" exuberance... 

 

Which is for now my theory, PC gamers just love the RGB, the cringe meme gameplay is just a bonus... 

 

 

 

 

While everyone enjoys different games for different reasons, I have to say that Witcher 3 is by far the best RPG that I've played to date. The story is diverse, detailed, and enthralling, and the graphics are spectacular IMO.

I did find that when I first played it the first 10 or so levels were the hardest and it took a few hours and a youtube video to get into, but once I got going I couldn't stop.

I still remember loading into the world and getting curb stomped by the first monster I came across. And the werewolf. 

5 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Apple trying hard to keep those walls up.  It's basically the equivalent of an employer who knows they cannot fire you, so they just try and make your life hell to make you quit instead. 

Also known as constructive dismissal, and very much illegal.

I don’t think we can comment on the price until we get our hands on it to listen. Feature wise, I think these are class leading compared to the Bose and Sony equivalent. 
 

$550 isn’t that much for me personally, I paid almost $2000 for my LCD-3 which is just 2-channel and $499 for my computer headset with spatial audio. 
 

if it can best it’s competitors in noise cancellation and sound performance I’d buy it. 

5 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

how would this break microsofts tos? Microsoft already has a version of windows for arm, so licensing shouldn't matter the device it runs on. Or if its a vm, just license it like any other arm vm would be licensed.

Microsoft will only sell Windows ARM to OEMs that pre-install. 

I'm really liking the rollout plan by Apple. Start with the low-end hardware, the people who only need up to 16GB RAM. Light gaming, office work, some photo editing, etc. 

This will give devs time to come to grips with the base-line hardware, and time for them to rollout updates and patches to their software in time for the release of the next chip and refresh of the professional tools, such as the 16" MBP, and iMac with the Mac Pro to follow last with M2X.

2 minutes ago, Mctech said:

Hello! I am planning on purchasing a Ryzen 5 5600X, but was wondering if my current GPU is too weak for it. I plan on playing Valorant, CS:GO, Call of Duty Cold War, Warzone, Fortnite, and other popular titles because I love reviewing gaming peripherals. I plan on playing these titles at 1080p, however, I may venture off to 1440p in the foreseeable future. Please let me know if more information is needed!

 

PS: I will have 16 GB of DDR4 3200 MHZ RAM.

No, you'll be fine. The 5600X is capable of being paired with the latest 6800XT and 3080, particularly at 1440p and higher.

Don't forget the Harmony 88" OLED with motorised floor stand. 

https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/televisions/beovision-harmony

Yeah, I have to say, not usually worth the price... but seeing one in person does make you feel special.

Just FYI, they've always had a strong relationship with LG so basically what you're buying here is the best-of-the-best LG has to offer, paired with exquisite design, craftmanship, mechanical, and audio engineering.

On 11/21/2020 at 4:37 PM, emosun said:

Yeah but nobody is transfering something to a mac mini at 10gb per second. Or any pc for that matter less your sending a single jpg from two pcie ssds.

 

I mean if you really want that first 100mbs of file to look like its transfering fast before it eventually runs out of cache and starts transfering just as slowly as it normally would then sure.... 10gb then

I use 10G on the daily, both in the office and at home... between my security cameras and plex server with 1gbps internet I can saturate a 10G link.

At work it’s super easy, we have a bunch of engineers and graphic designers editing off a local NAS + SQL databases and local backups. 

On 11/18/2020 at 6:54 PM, leadeater said:

Yea not happening, you don't find Mac OS on naval warships responsible for radar and fire control but you do find Windows. So as scary as you think that sounds the much broader and critical roles that Windows serves actually does make a vast difference compared to Mac OS.

 

Ignoring the fact it's much much more difficult than you're making out or think. There is no just cleaning up Windows code base, there is a slow progress that is happening now or starting an entirely new one, there isn't the third option you are wanting as it's simply not feasible.

At least warships are running XP, my old workplace had business critical systems on 3.1 and DOS.

Hey, so I heard you like emulation on your M1 so we are emulating windows 32 bit on x64-x86 and then emulating x86 using Rosetta 2 to run on ARM so we can play TF2 on your MBA.

2 hours ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

this is all hardware.

 

Imagine a hardware ecosystem where 16gb memory is the max.

I was thinking the same thing.... I'm speculating that for the 16 MBP and iMac they might have an M1X with a 6+6 or 8+8 CPU core configuration, 8-24 GPU cores, and an additional 2 RAM chips. However, that would be a massive monolithic design. 

M2 would possibly implement the same features and include more PCIe lanes for additional ports and 10G internet, possibly include 5G.

7 minutes ago, leadeater said:

LOL! What? Winning

It's a full $500+ to go from a 6800XT to a 3080 

Interestingly in New Zealand, the 6800XT is priced below the 3070. So..... It's a no-brainer really.

12 hours ago, CarlBar said:

 

Unless Apple screwed up big time the fact that cinebench isn't loading the GPU especially much should mean virtually all of the 10w budget is going to the CPU.

 

 

Fair, i'd got it into my head for some reason that the 25w limit part was a seperate skew.  As is probably obvious i only pay very loose attention to the laptop side of things. I know enough not to be clueless but i'm not exactly boned up.

 

 

This @LAwLz  The M1 is has a whole bunch of features and a process node advantage behind it aimed at getting the power to performance tuned really good. It performing slightly better per watt than somthing a generation behind it architecturally is the minimum bar it needs to meet. Anything worse and it's a failure.

 

 

Or a 10W power budget just doesn't need much cooling. Hard to say without a long list of benchmarks run on both. Not that i'd use R23 as the be all and end all, but it was all we had a few pages back that was a third party run.

 

 

I'd like to see Shadow of the Tomb raider when it's installed. 3D Mark if you own it too. Any other games with a benchmark would be cool too. Not sure what would make a good production style benchmark that we have comparable data for.

The Verge said that the MBA didn't throttle until the 9min mark in their testing, so you'd need to run CB23 for multiple passes and take the average.

As a side note, they also mentioned in their review that Spotlight is noticeably better and there is now a dedicated dictation button in the function row which is very good (might be taking advantage of the built-in neural engine?).

8 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

 

 

 

First, I did say some, not all.

 

Second, doesn't the macbook air completely lack contact on the intel chip? One device is beyond bizzare and completely sandbagging.

 

Third, Intel provides the chips, it is purely the responsibility of the oem to make chassis that handle the parts that are ordered. We wouldn't and don't give this type of excuse to Razer or Dell or anyone else. When it's bad, it's bad. And with the notable exception of the 16 inch MBP, they have been shockingly bad for quite a while. The fact that the 16" MBP maybe runs within 10% clocks of another OEM and we look at that as being an impressively good showing by Apple standards shows exactly how much they have been allowed to get away with the problem (and more than a few have chronic issues with devices dying due to thermals). When Apple's cooling design was so bad that the i9 variant was slower than the i7 that's purely their fault.

 

Fourth, it's impressive to be close, even if I think the lead is mainly Apple being bad at cooling before than even Intel being bad at progress. I just want to caveat that we are comparing against some of the worst cooled laptops ever to be sold at market, and definitely the worst from a premium OEM in this century.

While I'm not sure of the specifics, Intel definitely works with some OEMs to provide support for the implementation of their chips.

Intel would certainly be contributing to Apple, as Apple was pushing Intel to further develop their efficiency and GPU performance for the Mac.