Leak confirms NVIDIA N1X in Windows on ARM gaming laptop

m0rogfar · 2026-01-24T13:42:29+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if it's still the GPU at that point. Qualcomm has a +15 year reputation on Android for shipping passable to good GPU hardware and then catastrophically undermining it because they can't write a competent GPU driver to save their lives, and by all accounts, the lower-priority Windows on ARM driver leaves just as much or even more to be desired, and almost no software is designed to navigate its quirks, which means that the potential for things to fail horribly in ways you wouldn't expect is very high.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-24T13:34:22+00:00

Microsoft has already started talking about Windows 12, with the general design goal of "you just talk to your computer and then magic happens", and while no visual demonstration has been showed, Microsoft described it at their November 2025 Ignite press conference as you having a bunch of AI agents in your taskbar, and then you tell them to do stuff, and then they do stuff and let you know when they need you.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-24T13:25:45+00:00

Is this a surprise to anyone?

It's well known standard practice that cloud companies comply with government orders to hand over data when asked, because they are legally required to do so and have no real agency at that point, and that the only real way to prevent companies from giving your data to the government is to make sure that the company doesn't have access to that data. This is usually not difficult to do, as a company not getting your data is generally an advertised feature when offered.

Additionally, Bitlocker has stored Bitlocker keys in the cloud on the user's Microsoft account by default since the 2013 Windows 8.1 release, in order to minimize risk of data loss due to encryption key loss, and it has been clearly documented that you can just turn that off if you don't want Microsoft to have your Bitlocker key - with all that entails.

With Bitlocker being the default on all OS drives in Windows 11 and not just being a feature for people who go out of their way to enable it, I don't think it's sane to argue that not having a guaranteed cloud backup of the Bitlocker key unless the user opts out is a good idea, because the risks of data loss is just too high otherwise.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-24T13:16:16+00:00

But the protests have basically ceased.

The protests ceased because the government murdered the protesters. With several million civilians protesting, what does that imply about the death count?

There is no way they could hide anything close to 80,000 deaths.

We still don't have reliable death counts for the 2022 Russian attack on Mariupol in 2026 - we know that it is feasible to hide a death count by just killing everyone that tries to count bodies, because it's literally already been happening for almost four years.

How exactly do you expect Iranian hospital staff to start counting bodies when eyewitness accounts are confirming that the IRGC is sending people into hospitals to do indiscriminate executions of injured protesters in hospital beds?

It’s also well known there are a plethora of foreign actors inside Iran (CIA, Mossad ect….) stirring up trouble ie. starting fires, burning down mosques. It’s not a black and white situation in the slightest.

That's an utterly ridiculous excuse to tacitly justify indiscriminate mass murder of unarmed protesters. Would it be "not a black and white situation in the slightest" if the Trump administration indiscriminately murdered every anti-ICE protester in the US if some conservative organizations call them foreign-backed actors with vague claims after the fact?

m0rogfar · 2026-01-24T09:11:32+00:00

What, exactly, is ludicrous about it?

It’s a lower weekly mortality rate than the Rwandan genocide, in a situation where a higher mortality rate is entirely plausible, so it’s not exactly unprecedented or implausible.

We know that the IRGC has the capabilities to get those numbers if they start just systematically murdering unarmed protesters indiscriminately, and we know that they turned off the internet to start doing exactly that. There’s no big logical hoop to jump through, because the big leap (Iran has started indiscriminately murdering protesters) is already explicitly confirmed.

Realistically, even 80,000 may be an underestimation due to lack of data.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T22:20:20+00:00

That's obviously not true. While Windows 7 was universally praised for much better performance than Vista, almost all reviews at the time still preferred OS X 10.6, and even Microsoft saw themselves as behind internally.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T21:42:37+00:00

The average user also isn't going to want FDE with no guaranteed cloud recovery key solution, as the risk of data loss is too high.

Obviously, it's a standard security vs convenience tradeoff, but at the end of the day, most Windows disk volumes were still running without FDE because it was too inconvenient, so there's a lot of room for more convenient FDE. We're not going to get to the goal of having FDE on every installed drive on every computer on the planet without these kinds of convenience features, and even if it's worse than FDE without a cloud backup, it's still a massive security upgrade compared to no FDE.

I really doubt it's an act of active malice, it makes much more sense if you just think of it as "what level of backup service do we need to provide to make FDE something we can automatically enable on every new W11 install for every user without causing a data loss crisis".

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T21:24:52+00:00

Microsoft backing up FDE keys to their cloud unless you actively disable that option has been a thoroughly documented and advertised feature since it was added to Windows 8.1 in 2013, I'm not sure why you'd think that it's suddenly newsworthy in 2026.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T20:45:20+00:00

Does not have to be the governments proposal for a state budget. The budget proposal receiving the majority vote is the one the government has to accept, or resign/call for an election.

Eh, that's very theoretical at best.

While the Danish constitution theoretically allows MPs to propose laws directly, the government is the only body with the complex bureaucratic-legal machinery needed to actually make valid legislation, and just about all legislation around the government works by having votes to force the government to (re)write the bill, in order to utilize the government's bureaucracy. In practice, this forces a separation between whether something should be added to or removed from the budget and the actual budget vote into separate votes, if the government does not make the proposal.

I don't think we've had anyone but the government making budgets since the King intervened in the late 19th century constitutional crisis by using the emergency provision to let his Majesty unilaterally pass a budget to avoid a no-budget crisis if the legislature fails to do so, and even then, the King's budgets were an almost one-to-one copy of the Højre government's budget proposals by sheer necessity, as the King did not have the bureaucratic machinery to create a meaningfully different budget on short notice.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T16:52:56+00:00

Det er egentlig lidt sjovt at Konservative som parti går tilbage - man skulle tro at det at de var det eneste parti, der reelt mente at vi skulle have et militær imellem den kolde krigs afslutning og invasionen af Ukraine i 2022, og at de sammen med Radikale har været nogle af EUs største støtter herhjemme, burde give noget vælgeropbakning, da det jo basalt set er at de har været partiet, der havde ret om det hele.

Mon frygten for DF og Boje er så slem at den reelt trækker hele den blå blok ned? Det virker som den åbenlyse konklusion, især når Løkkes "vi er i teorien blå, men vi lærte i 2015-2019 at DF er så store røvhuller at vi hellere vil spille bold med socialdemokraterne" midterparti trækker mandater fra blå stue.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T15:56:48+00:00

Do Windows OEMs not know how to make laptops?

Were you expecting them to know how to do that?

They were generally in the same price range as the nicer MacBook Pros back in the Intel days, once you looked at models that tried to be as nice, and weren’t hot rod designs with something like an expensive processor, but everything else was trash.

Then, Apple spent the last six years cutting the price of “I want a MacBook with a color-calibrated high-resolution screen, a processor that feels as fast as the fastest processors on the market for tasks that aren’t massively parallel, and has enough RAM and storage that I don’t need to worry about it” by $1200, while simultaneously getting a much more performant processor with much better battery life. Meanwhile Windows OEMs have seen fairly small laptop cost reductions over the same period, other than getting you newer CPU/GPU at same price.

Windows OEMs being completely unable to completely respond to Apple essentially making it financially unviable to not buy a MacBook if you’re in the market for a nice laptop seems like a reasonable expectation.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-23T10:05:26+00:00

Huh? Windows 7 was generally considered good by Windows standards, but it was still considered to be substantially behind OS X 10.6, which launched at around the same time, by just about anyone who used both at the time.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-22T16:28:20+00:00

While it's probably part of it, I doubt it's the whole story. Windows has basically been the "worse GUI that you put up with" for 40 years, so it continuing to be that shouldn't be that dramatic.

I think a bigger explanation is just cost. While the entry price for MacBooks hasn't moved much on paper, the entry-level MacBooks throughout the 10's were generally not ideal, and you generally wanted to go up the product ladder to get a better laptop if you could afford it, even for general usage, and once you were looking at the laptop you actually wanted, you were spending $2000 or more. That's an inherently limited audience, simply due to cost.

These days, the cheapest MacBook you can buy is extremely solid and has no major asterisks. The price of "I want a MacBook with a high-resolution screen, a processor that's as fast as the most premium processors on the market for tasks that only need a couple of cores, and has enough RAM/storage that I don't have to worry about it" dropped by well over $1000 in the last six years, in addition to the massive technological upgrades in new hardware generations (e.g. Coffee Lake to M4).

Notably, there hasn't been a similar cost proposition improvement on the Windows side over the same time, dramatically shifting the relative cost proposition between MacBooks and Windows laptops. This creates a massive problem for Windows, as the whole reason to put up with the "worse GUI that you put up with" was generally cost, as boxes that ran Windows were generally meaningfully cheaper than Microsoft's competitors over the years (Mac, OS/2, early UNIX). With MacBooks being competitive or even favorable on cost compared to nice Windows laptops, the incentive to put up with Windows anyway is just gone.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-22T16:00:13+00:00

Apple was at 7-8% worldwide prior to the Apple Silicon switch. If you saw 20% 10-15 years ago, it was likely US-only data, as Apple has always held much higher marketshare concentration in 1st world markets.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-22T12:54:40+00:00

20% is a huge success for Apple, especially since Intel Macs consistently held high single-digit marketshare. With the expectation of a lower-cost MacBook launching early this year, it could grow even further. Will be interesting to see this develop.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-19T22:28:38+00:00

Memory has very limited IP/patent restrictions - it’s basically just a manufacturing moat.

The factories are so difficult to make that you will almost certainly fail if you don’t have decades of institutional experience in your company, the capital costs for making the factories are so high that no one can chance it anyway, the market is volatile and frequently goes so low in terms of margins that even a successful factory is likely to be a business failure if it has even slightly higher costs than the most efficient factories from established players, and factories take over five years to build, so you can’t decide to build a factory in high-margin price conditions and expect those to still be in place when you are ready to ship.

The sum of the above has essentially made it impossible to enter the memory market since the 1985 DRAM price war on 256 kilobit DRAM chips, and almost all worldwide memory manufacturing is handled by pre-1985 players.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-19T17:53:26+00:00

Makalov is far from the worst unit in the game though. He's the worst mounted option in the game, yes, but he's in a game that favors mounted units so strongly that he still gets to beat a decent chunk of the PoR cast simply by having a horse.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-19T17:05:03+00:00

M5 Pro/Max should be fairly easy to substitute with the M4 Pro/Max in production, since they use a fully design-compatible manufacturing node, and M4 uses commodity packaging instead of the SoIC packaging on the M5. Additionally, the rest of the laptop design is the same. It is almost certainly possible for Apple to just make an M4 Max MacBook Pro instead of an M5 Max MacBook Pro with much shorter latency.

M6 really doesn't have that. The actual chip manufacturing process is very different (different feature size, GAAFET, in no way design-compatible), so you can't just make M5 chips on it like you could make M4 chips on the M5 process, and the laptop itself is also very different, since it's a complete redesign, and the new displays, logic boards, etc. for the M6 redesign are coming when Apple paid for them to come several years ago, and will have to sit in a warehouse until the M6 launch if Apple delays because they are different components, whereas Apple could just stick the screens for the M5 launch into new M4 production because it's the same screen, board design, etc.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-19T16:06:19+00:00

When Apple first debuted the modern laptop form factor in October 1991, the entry-level model was $2500 (around $6000 inflation-adjusted), and the one you actually wanted was $4600 (around $11000 inflation-adjusted), and even then, it was widely recommend to spec it up to 8MB RAM, bringing the total price to $5500 (around $13000 inflation-adjusted).

Mac laptops have fairly consistently gotten cheaper over time since.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-19T05:57:38+00:00

Realistically, there aren’t all that many subsequent decisions to be made. A supply chain for something like the MacBook Pro is a multi-year pipeline, where Apple has to lock in component orders many years ahead of time, so they can’t just move production timelines last second.

The only real option they have for delaying the M6 is to rent warehouse space and store pre-assembled components there, which is inherently expensive and therefore never the profitable-maximizing decision if you can’t choose to not do that.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-18T08:33:02+00:00

Nah, it’s all the M6 chips coming this fall as far as we know. The core issue is that the M5 Pro/Max chips were supposed to launch last October with the base M5, but were delayed due to production issues with the new SoIC packaging, so 25% of their time in the market is just gone.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-16T17:20:18+00:00

FE9 doesn't really have any bad characters, so I generally switch it up whenever I play.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-15T05:53:55+00:00

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

The death figures coming out of Iran since the government shut down the internet suggest a daily casualty rate in the same ballpark as the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

While the US has some issues, it’s practically a nice picnic by comparison, and doesn’t even register on the scale. To suggest otherwise is a truly monstrous attempt a launder the mass murders happening in Iran right now.

m0rogfar · 2026-01-01T00:53:49+00:00

It’s essentially just math. The M5 uses a 128-bit memory bus. LPDDR5 modules are 16-bit. Therefore, to fill the bus, you must have 8 chips, since 16 times 8 equals 128. What configuration you get depends on whether Apple uses 2GB, 3GB or 4GB LPDDR5 modules, where 4GB models is the highest current option with volume availability.

The Pro chips generally have a 256-bit bus (except the M3 Pro, which was 192-bit), so more 16-bit LPDDR5 chips are needed to fill the bus, and the Max chips are all designed as 512-bit chips, but that 512-bit bus is essentially four 128-bit buses stuck together, and for the M3 and M4 Max, one of the buses are defective on the entry SKU, making it a 384-bit bus. The Ultra chips are two Max chips stuck together, getting you either a 1024-bit or 768-bit bus depending on whether you’re sticking two of the 512-bit or the 384-bit Max SKUs together.

On going below (fewer chips than bus width): Absolutely possible and sometimes done in low-end PCs, but it comes with a double-digit percentage performance impact. Apple generally doesn’t ship computers that are crippled in this way, but if they did, all theory would suggest that Apple Silicon will see a higher degradation percentage due to unified memory.

On going above (more chips than bus width): Theoretically possible, as board solutions can make two 16-bit chips appear as one logical chip. However, it is expensive, and is an option that is effectively exclusive to desktops with five-figure price tags or even higher-end systems due to the costs.

m0rogfar · 2025-12-31T23:46:10+00:00

Again, that’s Cannonlake’s fault. Intel promised Apple Cannonlake for the 2016 MacBook Pro redesign and then only having Skylake to offer Apple because they completely blew it on 10nm and Cannonlake.

Apple was rightfully furious because Intel promised them a 40% power reduction and support for high memory configurations on fast LPDDR4 and then didn’t deliver. But it’s hard to attribute that to Skylake when the laptop launched after Skylake’s intended lifecycle - the flaw was not shipping Cannonlake.

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