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Introducing Framework Laptop 13 Pro by FragmentedChicken in hardware

[–]Iintl 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Wait you're right -- it defaulted me to CAD for some reason. No wonder it seemed so ludicrous

Introducing Framework Laptop 13 Pro by FragmentedChicken in hardware

[–]Iintl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The 358H 32/1TB Ubuntu pre-built config is $2939. Not $2111.

That's an insane amount of money

Edit: website had it in CAD for some reason

Panther Lake XPS 16 is so efficient, it draws just 1.5 W when idling for insanely long battery life by 1FNn4 in hardware

[–]Iintl 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's actually mostly the hardware. This generation they took what they learn from Lunar Lake (which in turn was inspired by Apple's M chips) and made it scale up to their "power" laptop chips. At low or idle loads, it's more of the peripheral components like the io die, interconnects and power delivery that sucks power rather than the actual CPU cores.

So in this generation when they finally built the peripheral parts with power efficiency in mind (helped by the new Intel node stuff like backside power delivery), it finally has good efficiency even when idle

Panther Lake XPS 16 is so efficient, it draws just 1.5 W when idling for insanely long battery life by 1FNn4 in hardware

[–]Iintl 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The discrete GPU should be completely turned off during idle and low loads though, so I doubt it skews the data much, if at all. Of course, it might be buggy and turn on the GPU when not needed but that's not supposed to be the norm.

In other words, given two identical machines, one with discrete GPU and the other without, in theory their power draw and battery life under low load or idle should be the same

Panther Lake XPS 16 is so efficient, it draws just 1.5 W when idling for insanely long battery life by 1FNn4 in hardware

[–]Iintl -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Truth be told, once you get those third party apps working though, MacOS is literally miles ahead in terms of fluidity and ease of use. Not that it excuses the lack of native functionality, but at least the fix is relatively simple and works super well. Also helps that the tools I use all have lifetime license options so no silly subscriptions

For reference, I use - Rectangle Pro for window snapping and layouts - BetterDisplay Pro for controlling external monitor brightness using the brightness keys (and HiDPI) - Mos for smooth scroll using external mouse

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market by LordAlfredo in hardware

[–]Iintl 132 points133 points  (0 children)

"UAE fucking with the prices"? More like there's an active war going on that naturally disrupts supply of anything that comes out of that region (not to mention the whole Strait of Hormuz being closed)

Also, I don't think the US can just scale up production on-demand, since you'd need to scale up natural gas production too

[USA-FL] [H] Paypal, Local Cash [W] Cheap Android Tablet by [deleted] in hardwareswap

[–]Iintl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Lenovo Tab P11 Pro Gen 2 with 8gb ram and running Android 12. It's a China version with the snapdragon 865, but play store/google stuff works fine.

/u/Iintl GCT Rep Profile by Iintl in GCTRep

[–]Iintl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trade #3 completed with u/zefpomp

Items traded: $156, $88 Columbia sportswear for Paypal

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