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Ideally we would have done a lot of testing against an i5-8300H or the i5-9300H, but we simply don't have any laptops in the office with that spec and it was going to take too long to get them in.  I do plan on making a video in the future where the Dell G3, GA502 and Helios 300 go head to head to find out the true king of slightly above $1000.

More AMD laptops please.

Great video.
 
It finally made me register in the forum ?
I have been running my Windows “gaming machine” in qemu/KVM for 4+ years now, more or less to my satisfaction. So I’m always interested in other peoples experiences.
 
But the list of problems just ran through so fast at the end and it left me with some questions.
 
4th PCI-E slot straight-up doesn’t work
 
Is it a hardware issue (motherboard?), a problem with the host OS (not showing up under Linux?), can it not be passed through to the VM ("wrong" IOMMU group?), ...?
 
virtio networking driver didn’t work
 
Host or macOS side? Did you have any network at all? In the system overview slide (~3:36 in the video) it says that there is 10 GbE LAN (AQC107) passed-through … ah, well, looking down the problem list "network in the VM" seems to be a source of sleepless nights.
 
A few remarks to the problem list from personal experience:
 
10 GbE NIC failed to work while Radeon VII was passed through because of that BIOS
 
My BIOS does not support the on-board sound card if VT is turned on... IT moves in mysterious ways.
 
Launching the VM again after shutting down without first rebooting the host hard locks the system
 
When I shut down my VM and restart it, the passed-through graphics card performance is throttled dramatically. My guess is, it’s an “unclean reset” after the VM shut down. Similar to the problems you get with some USB controllers when passed-through, maybe a voltage problem in the PCI bus?
 
 
And two final questions:
 
(related to the “4th PCI-E slot problem”) You do have two graphics cards installed in the system. Why not pass-through both of them and run Linux headless? There seems to be a second NIC on the motherboard and any "Linux-stuff" could be done remotely via ssh.
 
Have you thought about a "bare metal hardware" performance test under Linux? At least Blender should be available!?
 
Again, great video! Thanks.

Thinkpad W DS laptops died like 10 years ago and were clunky as heck. The acer dual screen laptop and lenovo android dual screen "2 in 1" were horrible to type on and awkward. If you have any links to the drafting/cad laptops that you said this is common on I'd love to check it out but I haven't seen anything dual screen and usable in years and nothing with decent modern hardware.
 
 
 
 
I really like this and I hope I can get my hands on one. I've got a yoga with windows ink and it's been pretty good but having that dual screen with a easy to use scratch pad above the keyboard could be sweet. Hopefully it's got a button to toggle the keyboard on and off for wrist input. At any rate it's a slick design, new concept or not.

Just watched this video.  I am a long haul trucker, and I take my gaming rig out on the road with me (I spend a lot more time on the road than I do at home).

Specs:
i7 4790K @ 4.0GHz
Z97 Mobo
16GB Ram
GTX 1070 Founder's Edition
1200W PSU
NZXT S340 case
 
You get the idea.  I use this CPU cooler: https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-Computer-Prevention-Heatsink-CNPS9500AT/dp/B000HKDA0U
 
It is a pretty big/heavy copper air cooler.  I've driven approx. 120k miles over the past 1½ years (along a lot of bumpy roads) and the cooler hasn't bent the mobo or fallen off the CPU.  Thanks for making LTT & the WAN show.