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@SidTheITGuy I wasn’t going to but macbook sounds like a good advice, indeed.
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@Lensflare Only if you want to pay six times the market rate for SSD storage and then only get soldered crap, and also like a ridiculous markup for RAM.
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@Fast-Nop true, but the hardware IS actually great
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@Lensflare I wouldn't call soldered flash "great". I also wouldn't call a laptop great that costs 1600€ and offers a measly 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD.
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@Lensflare unless I can easily install LinuxMint on it, I really see no benefit in having a Macbook rather than just getting a ticket to join the herd.
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@netikras not trying to convince you but the touchpad and the screen on a MacBook are unmatched, if you are ok with paying a very high price for it (yes, I mean money)
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@jestdotty
Who buys a mac for games? Most games aren’t optimized for macOS.
Gaming is literally the only thing that macs are bad at. If you want to play games, stick to a Windows PC or notebook. -
You might want to reconsider having some nvidia yes nvidia gpu. There are some cool private ai repos that's emerging and although they all can run on cpu, they run much faster with a gpu.
Idea of having ai locally is interesting as you can feed all your photos, messages, personal repos and have an assistant that actually knows you. Since it's local there are no concerns for feeding your private data to it. -
@neriald how about those CPUs with ML modules or smth like that?
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@jestdotty I didn‘t blame anything. But if you like cheap garbage, definitely don‘t buy a mac. Also don‘t buy a mac if you want to play games.
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@netikras I heard macs are good at running local ai due to those ML modules. So yeah, although I don't know it well enough to recommend one over another that's definitely an alternative to running a gpu.
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@netikras AMD has "Ryzen AI", and it's useless marketing shit with no software support. Given that AMD, at just 20% market share, can't even be assed to put that into ALL their laptop CPUs, further reducing incentives for SW support, it's a safe bet that they don't expect anything out of it.
Don't even get me started on Intel laptop CPUs. Unless you're a corp in need of reliable volume (which AMD always fails at), there's no reason to buy an Intel laptop.
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TL;DR; I need your advice regd. a new workhorse of a laptop and ARM/MS Surface10/Laptop6 for this purpose
So my hi-end dell XPS (9350) keeps annoying me with its screen flickering. And it's an 8 year old ultrabook with 16G of RAM that I'm using extensively for development, devops, researching and whatnot. 16GB RAM is also becoming...not enough for all of it.
So I'm passively looking for an upgrade. I like the 13" profile (ultrabook style) and battery life, so I'd like to stay away from gaming laptops.
There have been talks about ARM being the new thing. I always saw ARM as a consumer-grade CPU arch (browsing, movies, music, docs, etc.), but the internet says that the new MS Surface devices will have ARM/Qualcomm built in and can compete with MB Pro in terms of performance (ref.: https://windowscentral.com/hardware...) and they are allegedly released this spring.
I'm not much of a hardware person, I prefer staying on the logical level of things, so I want to ask you, people smarter than me, what do you think? Is it a feasible upgrade for an XPS13 (i7 Skylake/16G RAM/4k touch)? I'll be running code and image builds A LOT, using JetBrains IDEs and doing similar resource-intensive tasks. I don't care at all about GPUs - I don't use them (integrated graphics has always been sufficient).
What else should I consider?
Any alternatives?
P.S. while I can't stand Windows, I actually like MS's hardware. They are good at making it.
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