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abufrejoval Don't quite know why this reminds me of the Russians waving flags in terrain supposedly taken from Ukraine… Somehow this seems like the type of machine nobody wants to build and nobody should buy, yet needs to be there, just to keep the Fruity Cult from overrunning what used to be a personal computing market, that all vendors try to turn into an AI addiction needle instead. Anyone with half a brain should be looking at old new stock, which oddly enough still exists and offers vastly better value, and often twice everything when adding another one or two hundred quid. Then again, there is even a refurbished market, should buget constraints bite harder. Reply
HideOut "We'll eventually see a configuration with the Core Ultra 7 355, which starts at 16 GB of memory and scales up to 32 GB, as well as sports Thunderbolt 4. " You mean SUPPORTS? Reply
cyrusfox abufrejoval said: Anyone with half a brain should be looking at old new stock, which oddly enough still exists and offers vastly better value, and often twice everything when adding another one or two hundred quid. Then again, there is even a refurbished market, should buget constraints bite harder. If the old new stock isn't lunar lake, it can't compete on battery, I have heard very glowing reports about battery life on this platform, and that is attractive. Reply
ezst036 More ridiculous Windows 11 computers having only half the DRAM they need to nicely function. Reply
das_stig Battery life of current models would be more than enough for a days work, even 8GB could be usable for light office work, if Windows was more efficiently coded, Microsoft and friends didn't have so much unnecessary crap running eating resources, just to "enhance the customer experience". Like to see a review of Wildcat Lake running Linux in an everyday office test. Reply
abufrejoval cyrusfox said: If the old new stock isn't lunar lake, it can't compete on battery, I have heard very glowing reports about battery life on this platform, and that is attractive. True and LL is one variant I had in mind, now that the prices are ok, but there are other choices, too. Trying to get everything will cost you dearly and fail to to deliver all. You need to carefully look at what's really important and sufficient for you, and then focus on how extra money gets you extra value, not just stick with 'everything', which the leading edge keeps promising. It's for the battery life I got myself a LL laptop recently and yes, it's doing better than anything Intel I own and it also beats my Hawk Point variants on battery, but the ARM chips I tested, X1 Elite and Fruity Cult M4 are lasting longer yet, still not nearly as long as an Android tablet like my OnePlus Pad 2, which shames a lot of x86, at least in Geekbench, and the Fruity Cult with a brilliant hi-res touchscreen, pen, 16GB of RAM and 500GB of SSD at €500. For me software platform issues quickly eliminated the Fruity Cult, but also Windows on ARM, both for lack of good Linux support while Android remains handycapped with desktop apps, desktop mode and Meta going down the AI dictator path. BTW LL does much better on suspend to RAM with Linux than Windows, because on Windows the connected standby eats your battery by waking up every 30 minutes, even in airplane mode: tried tons of things to disable the wakeup trigger, but nothing worked. Fedora disables hibernation by default (because it leaves RAM content unencrypted), but one might argue that it also doesn't need it any more: contrary to Windows LL lasts for days without noticeable battery drop on suspend with Fedora. So depending on how you use your laptop, LL on Linux might get you through several days of conference, note taking and occasional reference surfing, while Windows may force you to hibernate, which is much slower and far more expensive on the battery, just because it keeps eating too much power in suspend… Reply
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