Re: Gaming Laptops

On Sat, 2/1/2025 7:58 AM, vallor wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:28:47 -0600, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote
in <fdjiojt0fj9ft4plm2eu47itkdsi21mdcl@4ax.com>:
 

Paul wrote:
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-hh wrote:

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Of course.  Overall, a challenge with the DIY topic is differences in
motivation:
is the DIY because money's tight?  Or is the motivation because
tinkering with hardware is an entertaining hobby/pastime?
Both motivations can & do exist, and can get conflated in discussions.

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The motivation, is we don't want to buy shit.
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Do I want a Dell with a four phase VCore, when I can have a twenty four
phase VCore on an expensive motherboard ?
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Do I want a 230W power supply on a Dell, when I can pick up an 850W
power supply at Best Buy ?
Now, I can plug in an RTX4090 when I want to.
On the Dell, that's... impossible (even if you went out and bought the
850W supply, it probably would not fit in the small Dell case, neither
would the Dell cooling system be adequate for the thermal load and there
wouldn't even be a mounting location for a fan to be added).

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Yeah the non-standard components in Dells and HPs are a real turn-off,
for those of us who are brave enough to open our PC cases.
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When you do a build, you control everything, and no screwing around or
taking shortcuts.

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I think us DIY guys tend to overspend and overbuild our systems.  So we
don't save any money, but they are better-built.
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Well, what the salesman didn't tell the gaming lady,
is that the owner will beat the piss out of the laptop and it will be
knackered after only four years. While you are having a gaming
experience, it won't last.

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Gaming laptops are the worst.  Hot running, loud, expensive, fragile.

 
There are exceptions to every rule.  In that regard: ASUS tufbooks
are tough.
 
After updating it to Linux Mint 22.1, and while looking at the output
of lspci(8), discovered this:
 
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor
Gaussian & Neural Accelerator (rev 02)
 
There's an out-of-tree driver Linux driver for it, and apparently Intel
is working to get it into the Linux kernel.
 
Having said that, can't imagine why I'd use it.  (I guess perhaps Windows
Copilot might use it, but I'll defer to others regarding whether or not
that is the case.)
 

Your guess is as good as any.

https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/ipla/software-development-platforms/client/platforms/alder-lake-desktop/12th-generation-intel-core-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2/003/intel-gmm-and-neural-network-accelerator/

Even the person making a URL for the article, was running out of letters.

In a strange twist of fate, it's being used as a Direct Render Manager "thingy".
No resource goes wasted, I would guess.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GNA-To-DRM-Driver

   Paul