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Is that actually true anymore? I mean, hardware wise they are not much faster, but cooling is a different story.
The trend in laptops has been for longer battery life and less heat. Since there haven't been any major breakthroughs in battery technology or mobile processor power (at least from Intel), this means lower power for processors and generally lower performance in general. Almost all laptops are using ultra low voltage Intel chips. And even the ones that don't, except for high end gaming laptops, thermally throttle ALL…
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Is that actually true anymore? I mean, hardware wise they are not much faster, but cooling is a different story.
I have a >3 year old GPU that's still faster than any mobile GPU. I have been having 64 GB RAM in my desktop for ... 5 years now. Even in the summer my PC is completely quiet, even under heavy load. (Both the GPU and the CPU are water cooled with stock all-in-one coolers.) Desktops are great.
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informatio... >All x86-based Certified For Windows 10 PCs must meet several requirements related to Secure Boot: > - They must have Secure Boot enabled by default. > - They must trust Microsoft’s certificate (and thus any bootloader Microsoft has signed). > - They must allow the user to configure Secure Boot to trust other bootloaders. > - They must allow the user to…
"They must trust Microsoft’s certificate (and thus any bootloader Microsoft has signed)." This one in particular always pissed me off, and I'm glad it only applies to pre-built machines that come with Windows 10 preinstalled. If the individual motherboard makers ever decide they need to be "certified for Windows 10" and start auto-trusting a certificate for closed-source commercial software, I'm left with no choice b…
My Ryzen board trusted Microsoft out of the box, it has to if they want to pass Windows logo certification. You can check yours here: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard/hardware/searc...
I prefer a desktop because: 1. I like big, big monitors. 2. I prefer a full size keyboard. 3. I prefer a separate mouse. 4. I prefer big freaking disk drives installed. 5. I put the desktop under my desk, and with a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse, there is much less of a snarl on my desk. 6. The desktop has an optical drive I still use. 7. The desktop has lots of USB ports and they're all in use. 8. I can repla…
I really wish the technology was there for a thin client laptop that can hook up to a more powerful desktop machine, GUI and all, sharing hardware etc. I've tried VNC and other remote desktop solutions but the but the performance has always been abysmal, it's a niche idea and obviously comes with the network requirement, but I think it would give the best of both worlds when you need the portability of a laptop aroun…
I'll give you a computer with the following:
* 256GB of solid-state storage
* 6 CPUs @ 3+GHz
* 8GB of RAM
* Weighs only 200 grams
* Battery-powered, lasts 5+ hours
* 1440 x 3168 resolution display
I would have been absolutely gobsmacked. Such a machine absolutely outclasses every desktop up into the early 2010s!
And then you would tell me that it's mostly used to shitpost on reddit and Twitter and would be completely useless as a development machine, and the manufactures would do everything to make it impossible to put what software I want on it...and also it would spy on me everywhere I went in order to sell me garbage...
We took a wrong turn somewhere, didn't we?
I prefer a desktop because: 1. I like big, big monitors. 2. I prefer a full size keyboard. 3. I prefer a separate mouse. 4. I prefer big freaking disk drives installed. 5. I put the desktop under my desk, and with a wireless keyboard and wireless mouse, there is much less of a snarl on my desk. 6. The desktop has an optical drive I still use. 7. The desktop has lots of USB ports and they're all in use. 8. I can repla…