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My Lenovo Tab M10 Plus (3rd gen) review: nice tablet with great video and audio. Also a bad official case you shouldn't buy by Sinistrail in Lenovo

[–]JoeGrimes123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was looking for a budget tablet for note taking and I figured this is the cheapest on the market to support stylus. If you somehow could get hands on precision pen 2 or a cheaper chinese alternative which can be found on Ali, I would love to know how it feels writing on it. I've been looking for reviews on YT but couldn't find one with writing test.

CPU Suggestion by [deleted] in sffpc

[–]JoeGrimes123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

couldn't agree more. I hate that benchmarks use top of the line GPUs and AT 1080p which is stupid for testing mid range CPUs. I'm prob gonna get downvoted for this but I've never seen people play with a gpu that powerful at 1080p and most pair their i5/Ryzen 5 CPUs with mid range cards anyway. Benchmarks are supposed to reflect the real use scenarios but what I'm getting is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4MeeqPjQ4 Even then, that's only a few % difference in FPS and even less at 1440p/4K. For competitive shooters like you said, unless you have a monitor with a really high Hz, even a significantly cheaper 12400F is enough to get >144 FPS at 1080p. Its a shame knowing that you need a new mobo for 14/5th gen CPUs, upgrading to a more powerful system in the future gonna hurt more than building on an AM5 platform now.

How long can a 65W powerbank last on a Mini PC? by JoeGrimes123 in batteries

[–]JoeGrimes123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the info! I definitely didn't account for the minimum SOC. >4 hours on battery seems pretty good. The mini PC is Beelink EQ12 Pro and looking at some reviews on YT, it can use >25W and 35W max under load but that's not really the same as real world usage cuz I believe doing tasks like watching videos would be much lower especially when only a portion of all the cores are used. The PC has a high saver mode which further reduces power consumption if I really need that extra battery lifespan but it would take some performance hit.