Is it just me, or are...
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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
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Really? Well crap. Reminds me of this quote though...
Abraham Lincoln wrote:
Not every quote you read on the Internet is true.
Jeremy Falcon
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The most interesting part is when he was asked about this quote. He didn't positively confirm that he had said it, but if so, it must have been in in discussions about how much of the 8086 1Mbyte total address space should be reserved for for the OS, drivers and such, and how much should the user control. His opinion was that it was fair to reserve 6/16 of the address space for OS & drivers, with 10/16 of the address space for user programs. In that context, the statement makes perfect sense. I am willing to stand up and defend Bill Gates.
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I'm a software developer. Everything runs in Docker, plus I need at least 1 VM (at once) to connect to customers systems. That, plus Eclipse running, I can easily eat through 32Gb+, and on a 32Gb machine, that just causes swapping and terrible performance. Right now, with Chrome, Docker, VMWare and Eclipse running. I'm at 63% of 64Gb. There's still no way I'd pay 6k. I've got an HPZbook, 6 core/12 thread i7, 64Gb RAM (comes with 32Gb, added an extra 32Gb), 1Tb + 2Tb NVMe (added the 2Tb), and was (from memory) circa £1600. Only got an Nvidia Quadro, so about the same performance as a GTX1650. Happily plays Far Cry 6 on medium.
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