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New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by ihattendorf »

pjmlp wrote: post #50
MrRadar wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which GPU do you have? According to https://mesamatrix.net the radeonsi driver for GCN and RDNA cards supports OpenGL 4.6 (the latest), and the r600 driver for older TeraScale cards supports 4.5.

Which given my hint about FXGLR doesn't do me much good. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6310-igp.c22... With fxglr, I enjoyed OpenGL 4.1, hardware video decoding, even though as you see from the specs, it can do more than that on Windows. With the wonderful open source driver, I get OpenGL 3.1 without hardware video acceleration.

Do you mean fglrx?

Regardless, the problem is nobody wants to spend development time supporting 10+ year old cards when there isn't enough time to support all the features on newer cards.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by pjmlp »

ihattendorf wrote: post #61
pjmlp wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which given my hint about FXGLR doesn't do me much good. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6310-igp.c22... With fxglr, I enjoyed OpenGL 4.1, hardware video decoding, even though as you see from the specs, it can do more than that on Windows. With the wonderful open source driver, I get OpenGL 3.1 without hardware video acceleration.

Do you mean fglrx? Regardless, the problem is nobody wants to spend development time supporting 10+ year old cards when there isn't enough time to support all the features on newer cards.

Indeed, which proves the point that having FOSS drivers is just publicity if there isn't anyone willing to do the job.

My laptop works perfectly fine, so the consequence is me switching to Windows, where Asus still keeps its DirectX 11 drivers for the laptop up to date for Windows 10, although the laptop was bought during Windows 7 days.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by ihattendorf »

pjmlp wrote: post #62
ihattendorf wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean fglrx? Regardless, the problem is nobody wants to spend development time supporting 10+ year old cards when there isn't enough time to support all the features on newer cards.

Indeed, which proves the point that having FOSS drivers is just publicity if there isn't anyone willing to do the job. My laptop works perfectly fine, so the consequence is me switching to Windows, where Asus still keeps its DirectX 11 drivers for the laptop up to date for Windows 10, although the laptop was bought during Windows 7 days.

Or that whoever manufactured the device didn't care about supplying/maintaining drivers for Linux so the community is left maintaining them. There's nothing stopping the device manufacturer from spending the time to support the device like they do on Windows, they just don't think it's worth it due to the smaller market share (which makes sense from a business perspective).

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by baybal2 »

1996 wrote: post #56
baybal2 wrote: post #25

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The thing is, a lion share of all AMD notebooks on the market is developed, and manufactured by a single OEM. If you look inside recent lenovos, or huawei laptops: scratch, scratch, and you see Qinghua Tongfang logos on PCB, and body parts. The PCB design, and parts list is nearly identical. Very few big brand companies have in-house engineering for laptops, and the few who have, have it for Intel only.

Can't we buy directly the Qinghua Tongfang hardware from some place like Aliexpress, or from a higher volume/lower margin reseller like Walmart or Bestbuy?

Walmart had Tongfang laptops by the way under different labels

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by spuz »

Tsiklon wrote: post #57
spuz wrote: post #26

Probably worth mentioning that they also do a non KDE version of these two laptops without the KDE branding on the lid and with your choice of a number of different Linux distros (or windows) pre-installed. Here is the 14" model: https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x/pro-x-i7-1-compr... and 15" model: https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x-15/pro-x-i7-2-co...

of note those machines are machines with Intel Processors in the same chassis, and are not AMD powered.

Yeah sorry - they messed up the links for the AMD and Intel versions of the laptop. The links that I gave originally linked to the AMD versions (even though they have i7 in the URL). The new correct URLs are:

https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x/pro-x-amd-compra...

https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x-15/pro-x-15-amd-...

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by Tsiklon »

miloignis wrote: post #60
Tsiklon wrote: post #57

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of note those machines are machines with Intel Processors in the same chassis, and are not AMD powered.

When I click on the link I get the option between AMD and Intel, and the AMD link takes me to this model, which does seem to be the same without branding: https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x-15/pro-x-15-amd-...

Ohh interesting - I was wrong, thanks for correcting me. I didn't see this link on the website.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by Tsiklon »

spuz wrote: post #65
Tsiklon wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

of note those machines are machines with Intel Processors in the same chassis, and are not AMD powered.

Yeah sorry - they messed up the links for the AMD and Intel versions of the laptop. The links that I gave originally linked to the AMD versions (even though they have i7 in the URL). The new correct URLs are: https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x/pro-x-amd-compra... https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-pro-x-15/pro-x-15-amd-...

No sorry, my bad too - I missed those options altogether when I was looking at the website.

Re: New KDE Slimbook launched with Ryzan-4000 series processor

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Post by tluyben2 »

pantaloony wrote: post #44
tluyben2 wrote: post #30

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Same here... I have brought several laptops back to the store 'for repair' just for that but there is never anything wrong and I really get miserable battery life out of macbooks. Devving + browsing.

I bet I could get my MacBook’s battery life down to 5hrs with Slack, Chrome, WhatsApp, and VSCode all running, while “not doing anything that demanding”. Use Safari, use native-code messengers or open them only as-needed in response to alerts on my phone, and use Sublime and it’s back to approaching 10hrs. JavaScript eats battery and Safari is the only of the three major macOS browsers that takes power use seriously.…

Most things we have to use for work have no native equivalents though. I would be i3wm all the way if I could but most of everything is browser (badly done so even taking more battery power) or Electron. I mean how horrible is postman and yet everyone insists on using that pool of bugs.

That said, my linux laptops, where I use the same apps and where I have no safari, have far better battery life. So it is not only that.

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