The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2
Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...
Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale. But I could just be a RISC fanboy.
Ohhhhhh Hog.
People buy for software they want, not chips.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2
Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...
Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale.
I didn’t understand any of this
It’s not for you, just buy what you are told to like a good sheep.
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Isn’t Apple required for left wing street cred?
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I’m waiting for Apple to upgrade MBP to M3 before I buy a new laptop.
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 I’m just as pissed off because it showing up on my Google news.
I have a conference tomorrow next to the White House. I can pop over to the WH afterward and tell Joe to ban that shit and anything else you want me to convey to him?
Tell him to up his Geritol dosage!
And get power loafers! The bionic kind!
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2
Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...
Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale. But I could just be a RISC fanboy.
Ohhhhhh Hog.
People buy for software they want, not chips.
Windows already runs on Arm and the apps will get there. Linux and most of its apps already cross compile to a half dozen architectures. Windows / apps targeting two is just new. I never tried it but when Apple switched from Intel they built in compatibility with the legacy apps using some kind of virtualization that was supposed to be excellent and fast.
When the apps run anywhere, you can bet some people will be looking to buy the windows laptop with 16 hours battery life versus the one with 8.
Microsoft starts offering advice in how to code for Arm
In 2027 a quarter of PCs won’t use x86, and Redmond wants its ecosystem ready
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@Hog I had a comp with a RISC chip already in the late 90s!
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Windows had that built in decades ago for their server software, when the hot young chip thing was DEC Alpha.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog I had a comp with a RISC chip already in the late 90s!
Most of my Unix friends learned their craft on SGI workstations cause they all worked for a Dallas packaging graphics firm which among other things had the Star Wars toy box contract.
Great machines. And I really liked the IRIX.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2
Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...
Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale.
I didn’t understand any of this
It’s not for you, just buy what you are told to like a good sheep.
TELL ME WHAT TO BUY !
I am now looking at buying 60m of Petzl rad line in case you can find that cheap, I can recommend it.
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@Pakoon said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I forgot that Macs also had PowerPC chips in the 90s before switching to Intel. PowerBook G4 was über. It was the fastest laptop on the planet and the battery lasted hours more than any x86 laptop at the time.
Ya been through all these RISC crazes, usually mismanaged into irrelevance.
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This is a good breakdown of Qualcomm’s chip . It’s all based on Qualcomm’s own PR materials but, man, it looks promising
They claim it equals or beats the M2 in raw performance for some categories and either doubles the performance of the competing x86 chips or equals them for a third of the power consumption. The graphs look very selective and dumbed down though so we’ll have to wait for real world benchmarks.
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Damn I just wasted all this time reading about M2s and X86s and now you’re telling me it’s obsolete?!?!?
I hate this.
[IMG] https://image.ibb.co/nhhF0Q/new_sig_lob12.jpg [/IMG]
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Damn I just wasted all this time reading about M2s and X86s and now you’re telling me it’s obsolete?!?!?
I hate this.
Welcome to sexy fashionista it chips.
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Kyle was so excited when this arrived at the office!
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Kyle was so excited when this arrived at the office!
I literally have been in roll ins for mainframes. It was a whole thing for the vendor to check that their boxes arrived in good order.
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When I was a kid my friend’s dad worked for some hardware company in the 70s and 80s. He brought home a damaged or defective disc from a big ass hard drive. It was glass with this heavy metal thing in the middle to mount it. It was so big they used it for a coffee table.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Kyle was so excited when this arrived at the office!
Two hundred thousand of those vs this:
I suspect the above would have been unimaginable to anyone working on the tech in the 50’s.
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I hadn’t realized quite how dire things were (are) for Windows. The vid shows Windows market share is down from 95% in 2009 to 62% in 2023 (even less in the US where there are more Mac users). And that’s against a backdrop of a declining PC market.
Then there were all these misadventures trying to reverse the slide:
Nobody could miss the massive fail that was Windows 8 and the way they butchered the desktop experience before reversing course, but I wasn’t even aware of the mixed reality Windows version, Windows 10X and Windows 10S which were also soon to be abandoned.
Windows NT - Wikipedia
Qualcomm Launches a 12-Core Laptop Processor to Rival the Apple M2 - Snapdragon X Elite
