|
Just an option to consider - Framework. Framework Laptops
I got a powerful system for about 2.2k last year and I've been happy with it. I mess with virtualization a bit so I wanted the 64G mem. 6 cores (I think, might be 8).
I know at least one other person who's quite happy with their older Framework.
Their vision is to have components that are easily user-upgradable, so hopefully it will have a longer overall lifetime.
Cheers!
|
|
|
|
|
I looked at Lenovo, and wow $5790 for 128Gigs, 4 Tb storage, Nvidia RTX and i9 chip. It's the NVidia chip ($1800), the ram ($1400) and SSD ($750) estimated by me.
This level of performance is in high demand, and the higher price keeps them in stock, where if it was cheaper, they would be sold out and on back order. NVidia sold out of chips this quarter, and they are hard to get now. Companies are complaining that they can't get their chips from NVidia, because NVidia shifted their production to the big AI chip, H-100 when TSMC was slow. Since the value of NVidia stock is so high now, I would imagine anything with NVidia technology inside is going to be very expensive.
The $6K is hard to justify, but the amount of computing power within such a small package like this is much higher now compared to 5 years ago. What you can do with this much power if you can do it, justifies the price today.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Discover my world at jkirkerx.com
|
|
|
|
|
I just recently replaced both my 10-year-old laptop and my nearly 10-year-old desktop. For the laptop I bought an LG Gram16 with 500GB NVME and 16GB RAM. CPU is a 12th-Gen Intel Core-i7. I'm a developer, not a gamer, so the memory is enough to let me do what I need and I beefed up the disc space by adding a 2TB 980Pro into the second NVME slot. The 16-inch screen is great and the whole thing weighs way less than my old ASUS. It comes in at less than a kilo. Surprisingly enough, I got it at Costco for $500 bucks off list. Cost me $CDN1500 for the laptop and about $200 for the added 2TB.
My new desktop is based on a 13th-Gen Intel Core-i9, Asus motherboard, 32GB RAM, Nvidia 3060 GPU to drive my 4 monitors, and 3 2TB sticks of NVME, mixed between WD850NX and Samsung 980PRO. I moved over my two mirrored arrays of 4TB rotating discs to use for big storage and backup.
The speed is awesome -- Visual Studio starts up in an eye-blink and builds go so fast that they're done in no time. I no longer have time to go make a cup of tea while I'm waiting. I figure this may be the last machine I build, so I decided it was worth it to spend the money. All told, it cost me about $CDN3500.
|
|
|
|
|
Not bad man... the same specs I'm looking at would be bit cheaper in a desktop I'm sure. Thing is, I haven't used a desktop in over a decade. I'm afraid I'd lose cool points for that.
Jeremy Falcon
|
|
|
|
|
That price seemed a bit too high to me and then I look around. I found many machines I could be happy with for around 2K but then I found The One : AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D processor review - Introduction[^]. That is a really, really nice machine. It has a mobile RTX 4090 for a GPU and probably the best mobile processor available. Sadly, it costs around $4K and with a really good monitor the total will be about $5K, possibly less depending on the monitor. I think I could live with a machine like that.
ETA: here's another review of it from a different site: The ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 (2023) Laptop Review: Mobile Ryzen 9 7945HX3D with 3D V-Cache Impresses[^].
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
|
|
|
|
|
Rick York wrote: Sadly, it costs around $4K and with a really good monitor the total will be about $5K
Exactly... everything I come up with is around those price points too. I'm glad I only have to do this once every 5 years or so, it takes a lot of time to choose wisely in tech. These things aren't cheap.
Rick York wrote: ETA: here's another review of it from a different site
I'll have to check it out, thanks.
Jeremy Falcon
|
|
|
|
|
Klein Bottle Opener
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
My brother has one of these. Has had it for years.
Super awesome, fits in his electrician's tool belt nicely. Nothing like drinking a cold one while working with electricity. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
There's no way in hell I would try running on one of those things. If the two belts are running at even slightly different rates, you're going to tumble off the thing and break all kinds of interesting bones.
Software Zen: delete this;
|
|
|
|
|
Daniel Pfeffer wrote: your favourite topologist
Hmmm, my wife is a torus?
|
|
|
|
|
At the gross level, all mammals are topologically equivalent to toruses.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
The handle looks like that of a screwdriver. It looks like they removed the metal shaft and put in its place the bottle opener end.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
|
|
|
|
|
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
|
|
|
|
|
|
Klein Bottle ==> Klein Bottle Opener
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
|
|
|
|
|
what are the programming languages best linked with data analysis?
|
|
|
|
|
|
I don't care for Python, but I have to admit you're right about it - it's what's for dinner when it comes to data analysis. So eat your vegetables.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
|
|
|
|
|
Can it detect when a text value is parseable as a .net DateTime or SID? Or as an SQL datatype? And compare them as such?
modified 20-Aug-23 11:49am.
|
|
|
|
|
Probably. I don't know. I don't use Python
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
|
|
|
|
|
|
You can probably find a library that does that for you.
(The Python version of "There is an app for that". The answer is the same, regardless of question.)
|
|
|
|
|
Not when one has an employer who won't allow downloading packages of any kind. Everything has to be vetted by teams which have no clue before it can be used. By which time it's obsolete of course.
|
|
|
|
|
That could significantly reduce the viability of some popular languages that thrive on the gazillion of freely available libraries.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
