Opium_Dreaming

Lenovo will have decent keyvoard (IMO best in class) and acceptable screen/audio. Check the ports you need if you do. Any machine at that price with have 8GB RAM and make sure a quad core CPU. Hope that helps. Dell and LG have similar offerings but I guess I'm kinda a Lenovo fan because of the consistent professional build quality and keyboards, not to mention decently spread out lineup. You won't even need a quad core per se, although it's a good idea unless you're extremely worried about battery life - not an issue with light tasks + big battery.

Budget (including currency): 4000 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming mostly Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Any quad core ultrabook and any GPU I can find like 3060 or up ideally, with a sleek enclosure. So I want to eliminate the slight performance hit that occurs when data is shared between the CPU-GPU link and the RGB display values that show an image on the screen. If you have 2x thunderbolt ports or even 1x thunderbolt and a usb C you can use displayport over usb-c to bring the image data back from the GPU and into your laptop to be displayed on the built in screen, thus freeing up the PCIe lanes for the CPU and GPU to take over the cable connecting your laptop to your external GPU dock. `hope this maes sense feel free to ask questions, I didn't feel this fell under displays per say bit it's not what laptop people usually expect. If a mod wants to move to a more appropriate area feel free.

Awesome that this exists - here it is. A "how many cores for gaming" type video but for smartphones where they take an octa core and disable cores to simulate a 1,2, 4, 6, and 8 core device and how the performance trade off with battery is, and multitasking etc. I think they will conclude like in PC, 4-6 high clocked cores is better than 8 lower clocked even for multitasking in a well optimised system and if PC GAMES can't make good use of 8 cores in many cases or can't fully utilise them, then certainly smartphones can't. I know Big.Little (two fast cores and 2 medium and two slow aka two "big" cores and two "little" cores), so only ~2 of the cores are intended for high performance/gaming stuff... but think of all the background crap and unoptimised apps that are just dyeing to hog some of that sweet, available 2 Ghz 6 core sweetness, and especially when your phone gets older, it's gonna end up giving advanced apps one or two cores each and draining the battery. I wish there would be just one Samsung flagship (I'm a Samsung fanboy despite the software update situation), well anyway they could have 2-4 high quality cores and one VERY low clocked core that runs all background at like 800 Mhz or something which is plenty to do notifications and even wait for a call or connect to WiFi, but that is only really used with screen off and can run at full speed for 24hrs+ without draining the battery. Could even have a separate 100 Mhz super little core purely to run an always on display, and that way when your phone is locked but always on it could have legitimately "locked" battery drain with no apps running other than notifications (and it wouldn't matter if they tried because the processor would prioritise and reduce their total CPU time allotment to run everything else smoothly. Another cool idea is non-root manual disabling of cores or a more advanced task manager like windows to set core affinities, maybe battery saving mode has an advanced option to manually disable up to 7/8 cores for ultra low power mode, and instead of giving full aspects, it can just use the clock speed to say low power, medium, and fast. So optimised mode disabled one fast core when the battery starts to go down, and medium power savings maybe has the option to disable one of each medium and fast, then ultra power has just 1-4 of the lowest power cores running. I know it's not trivial to do, but very low power savings mode where the launcher is changed and screen in black and white requires an almost reboot anyway so it can be an optional reboot. I haven't tested it myself and there are other variables, but I imagine if you had a pixel 3a and pixel 3 with literally identical specs used for the exact same thing, except 3a has the fewer cores and lower power processor, there would be no perceivable speed or gaming FPS difference in a blind test, but the 3a would last longer. Off topic: That and the headphone jack made the 3a runner up to Note 9 for me last year, I sided with the much worse (in terms of battery and software-hardware optimisation) for the better features. Even with a 3500 mAh battery I wish I could have both worlds, I "*only*" get 5 hrs screen on time which i guess is typical but I wish I didn't feel like every single app in mining BTC in the background on android - and it kinda is in the sense that it's tracking your very move and doing a lot with advertising and notifications behind the scenes. Really hope Google continues to un-fuck the mess of betrayed permission settings like apps that refuse to run without all permissions, and that need to read "files, media, and photos" on your device just to be able to read/write to disk. Is it really that hard to have a separate access read only to gallery for instagram and for every app just a closed system single folder in the apps section of the drive to read/write all data as an obvious standard permissions, and only very few apps should have TOTAL ACESS to every single file on my device. probably a slightly NSA tactic here, but of course most companies sell you as the product via advertising profile (and yes, even apple to some third party devs and services but I suppose they're better). Back on topic (somewhat): So long rant but yeah android is basically in a position to have the lowest possible processor power, just like an ultrabook has a 5-10W core m chip and thus runs quiet and cool, often fan-less, and can still 100% pull it's weight in productivity and multitasking especially a 4-6 core. Also I want maximum GPU power on the SoC no matter what because GPU is active only when needed and always benefits gaming much more than CPU, so if we can have a gaming phone that also has power savings via less cores, that would be great. Just like a balanced gaming and productivity desktop could still have a decently clocked 4-6 core paired with an RTX 2080 and still be optimal for games, the logic should follow since the rendering principles of CPU vs GPU don't change just because it's ARM, although power characteristics obviously do. TL;DR - "how many cores for gaming" type video but for smatphones where they take an octa core and disable cores to simulate a 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 core device and examine how the performance reduction (if any?) and multitasking impairment compares with the potentially massive battery life improvement.

Not only is it higher storage (actually it only goes up to 512GB which was indeed huge at the time of the announcement, biggest available actually until recent 1TB from Sandisk, as of 2019). It is also significantly faster so you could conceivable sell a phone with 1GB capacity just to install/recover android/any OS, and then install any size of ROM permanent storage you want and the performance would match/exceed early SSD and EMMC internal storage that used to be on smartphones until UFS. In fact it's only really slower than UFS 3.0 which does almost 700MB/sec reads, but yeah it would've been a cool step towards a modular "PC-like" phone experience that allows you to pick parts (too bad Google scrapped project Ara), or even could be a low budget phone with no storage so you don't get jipped paying double for 256GB more on your phone (ahem Apple), but then again that's where manufacturer's make the most money from the richer customers who buy the top end phone with the 1TB storage for £300 more! (Maybe why it was scrapped even by Samsung when it was backwards compatible with microSD but would've made it harder to sell the 1TB models of their phones)

I guess this would've made a fun AliExpress finds video, but you can buy them in the US. Too bad it's only a handful of Samsung notebooks that support this tech. Yes the title is right, 500MB/s reads and 200MB/s writes; 35K IOPS on a microSD card size but different connector (link to buy below). It can read SD and UFS, but UFS isn't compatible with existing microSD slots. To bad the list of supported devices is basically one model of Korean notebook that has crappy internals but great I/O and Gigabit WiFi on board. Just shows how far ahead Korea's internet game is when it's 4GB RAM pentium notebooks have gigabit wifi and some US/UK aimed laptops are still not adopting ac WiFi on (some) midrange devices! https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/memory-cards/mb-fa256g-am-mb-fa256g-am/ Notebook that supports it - https://www.ebay.com/itm/SAMSUNG-Notebook-Flash-NT530XBB-K24W-GIGA-Wi-Fi-Pentium-Silver-13-3-128GB-SSD-/292807178746

Wife: You have a PC at work why do you need another one just for gaming? Me: Well my work PC has a 3 year old GPU that wasn't designed for gaming and... Wife: Why don't you just get a console that actually looks good in our living room. Me: *under breath: peasant* ahem how about a really small PC. Me: Looks at the price of this vs building a budget standard atx scrapyard wars-esque system. Me: Looks at recent bank statement Me: Cries Me: Sees Linus's latest video Me: pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease PS Amy if you're reading this for some reason: love you baby xxx

Wife: You have a PC at work why do you need another one just for gaming? Me: Well my work PC has a 3 year old GPU that wasn't designed for gaming and... Wife: Why don't you just get a console that actually looks good in our living room. Me: *under breath: peasant* ahem how about a really small PC. Me: Looks at the price of this vs building a budget standard atx scrapyard wars-esque system. Me: Looks at recent bank statement Me: Cries Me: Sees Linus's latest video Me: pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease PS Amy if you're reading this for some reason: love you baby xxx