Post 2031705 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
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(DIR) Post #2031419 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:16:02.170444Z
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Trying to find a laptop by AMD GPU is the worst idea ever.
(DIR) Post #2031483 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:19:42.628937Z
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@hj good AMD laptops are virtually nonexistent right now, but it's not the iGPU's fault (mobile Ryzens do tend to eat slightly more power than i5/i7s though) - most OEMs have the 'one token AMD laptop', and it's usually bad.Of course discrete AMD GPUs are horrible power hogs.
(DIR) Post #2031568 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:24:27.410609Z
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@Daedalus >Ryzen 5 or 7>SSD or SSD+HDD>1080p+>15"+>13 models found>Produced either by HP or Acer
(DIR) Post #2031643 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:27:42.051947Z
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@hj Meaning that's what you found? Is there any reason for HP || Acer? Or that's just the results you got?
(DIR) Post #2031644 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:28:55.085370Z
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@Daedalus that's the results.
(DIR) Post #2031705 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:28:34.460416Z
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@hj There are some 14" thinkpads and Dell business laptops, but the Thinkpads have bad battery life IIRC, not sure about the Dells
(DIR) Post #2031706 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:31:43.536459Z
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@Daedalus there are some Dells that are good and AMD and maybe even Linux, but nowhere to be found in my country
(DIR) Post #2031798 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:31:49.743305Z
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@hj IIRC from when I searched (ended up with 6-year old thinkpad x230...) those should be the traditional big/low-quality-construction/bad-battery/cheap-ish laptops? HP and Acer have a lot of those, most of them are very similar to each other.
(DIR) Post #2031799 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:34:41.187634Z
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@Daedalus they aren't exactly cheap and some (mostly acer) are even overpriced. I don't really trust HP and Acer it just out of question from the get go, i don't even remember why.
(DIR) Post #2031848 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:36:19.199957Z
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@hj not sure about how to help with that, I did have the dell choice and gave up because 1000eur new dell with ryzen vs 300eur (better build) old thinkpad with crappy intel dual core.AMD should have something good in... 2 years. (mobile 3000 should be just a rebrand of 2000, still Zen 1, so probably wait one more year for Zen 2 - which should be good if their server CPUs are a good reference)
(DIR) Post #2031949 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:39:00.408730Z
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@hj (of course that is not viable if you travel all the time)
(DIR) Post #2031950 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:42:04.889934Z
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@Daedalus i'm mostly looking for a ((not bad)) laptop so that I have a decent computer when I move in to another country and until I find some of more permament residence there. Getting a laptop seems like a better idea than taking desktop pc + monitor with me from the get-go, especially to temporary apartments
(DIR) Post #2032105 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:50:37.536146Z
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@hj I'm assuming you don't actually need GPU for work, disregard if doing OpenCL/Vulkan/etc.
(DIR) Post #2032193 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T16:49:23.278906Z
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@hj ok, then desktop is really not a good choice (unless you already have a desktop and can get GPU for ~20 eur so it's not much wasted money) (I do actually have a portable PC for possibility of moving, so that is possible, but it's 7kg w/o monitor)In that case I recommend even more to just get something cheap (minimum for work) and durable, and if you have a prospect of a job in another country, buy another one later there.Buying 2 used PCs over N years may be cheaper.
(DIR) Post #2032194 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T16:57:38.456507Z
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@Daedalus i already have a desktop, several, in fact. A good one (i5, 980) but in full-tower case, and an ATX MoBo but I would really need to buy a smaller case for it, and two mini-ITX or something like it ones, with extra-shit embedded celeron mobos in both, one is htpc is a very portable case, too.But yeah, I don't really need a GPU for work, i mostly need it for entertainment.
(DIR) Post #2032264 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T17:00:47.356053Z
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@hj Keep in mind that in a life-critical situation such as emigration, any PC can play a host of old games + handle more than a Retropie worth of emulators :p
(DIR) Post #2032265 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T17:02:50.606563Z
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@Daedalus >any PCsurely you mean any PC equipped with a display monitor.But yeah. I have another extra-shit 10yo acer laptop with 1 GiB ram on it and it has artefacts in Doom when using GL mode.
(DIR) Post #2032320 by Daedalus@pleroma.uwah.moe
2018-12-16T17:05:16.616188Z
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@hj OK, I guess 'any recent-ish laptop' would be more precise.
(DIR) Post #2032322 by hj@shigusegubu.club
2018-12-16T17:05:39.645355Z
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@Daedalus :DDDDDDDDDD