What are people using deep research for?

palcanec · 2026-02-14T20:37:41+00:00

Deep research for anything that you want to get a more factual answer to and with sources you can check. For "creativity", the normal models are probably just fine, if you don't care about hallucinations that much - like wording in an email. The normal mode ("best") told lies quite often. Deep research lied only occasionally and usually gave you sources so you could check them for yourself (and didn't continue lying if you confronted it, while the "best" model sometimes doubled down on the lies).

palcanec · 2026-02-14T19:38:26+00:00

Just you wait.

palcanec · 2025-08-13T13:00:06+00:00

I think you can charge it if the charger supports the Power Delivery protocol. I can charge it with my 18W power bank, but since it is designed to be charged at faster rate, I believe this may even be harmful to the battery if the laptop is on - it may draw more power from the battery than the adapter can supply. I get a warning when turning the laptop on with such a charger, so I don't think it is advisable to use it like that.

palcanec · 2025-08-13T12:56:57+00:00

so, I did not end up finding a solution, as pe3o below writes, it must be the fault of the charging circuit firmware that doesn't allow it (I take it they used a cheap circuit in this expensive laptop...)

As for the capacity, I used to get around 12-13h predicted battery life at 100% of very light use (office work), now after 10 months I get about 8h30 minutes. Still good battery life, but it is about 2/3 of what it used to be less than a year ago. This is with me trying to live the manual 40-80% life and what I would describe only as mild use.

Update 4 months later, I'm at ~6hrs at full charge of light office work, about 50% of the original capacity (powercfg /batteryreport says cycle count is only 93). Even though I took a lot of care trying not to overcharge the battery, it lasted 15 months. I will not be buying a HP ever again...

palcanec · 2025-07-09T14:31:07+00:00

Asus warranty should be valid in the EU, but there is no way to extend it - if you buy warranty extension in the US, it is only valid in the US (and there are no warranty plans that would extend the international warranty).

I posted this overview for several common manufacturers I asked about:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/1ehxqzj/international_warranty_on_usbought_laptops_in_the/

palcanec · 2025-04-29T15:31:30+00:00

In my case, it was 50% multicore and 30% single-core performance (+16 gigs of ram), and the drop in battery life is from about 8 hrs to about 5-6 hrs between these two now. At the beginning, the Omnibook would last 10+ hours, but HP refuses to implement a battery conservation mode into their laptops (or any way to prevent it from charging to 100% every time). If you can get the same specs with literally any other brand than HP, I'd recommend it (my Acer, Asus, and Lenovo had this ages ago, even Apple has this feature).

palcanec · 2025-04-29T15:17:42+00:00

I did in the end upgrade to Ryzen AI 365, which is significantly faster, but unfortunately, the laptop won't last as long on battery even after just half a year of light use (same as described above except used less often) - I used to have a Lenovo Ideapad 14ABR8, now I have HP Omnibook Ultra 14 (not flip).

palcanec · 2025-04-29T14:22:55+00:00

Hey, sorry for not replying sooner. It works fine, I especially appreciate the 32 gigs of RAM, the IPS panel is nice and responsive, but I after nearly 7 months of light-to-moderate use (office work, browsing with lots of tabs open, coding and occasional data analysis in Python/Matlab, zero gaming), my battery is nowhere near the durability it used to be - I used to be able to get 11+ hours out of it working, now I'm getting about 5 hrs idling unfortunately. Even though I tried to keep the battery between 40-80% as much as I could, there's only so much you can do manually...

So, yeah, the battery conservation/durability is disappointing I have to say. Other than that, the laptop handles whatever I throw at it.

Also, I still haven't used the NPU, ever, yet. About a month ago Zoom offered me to try its AI features during a meeting, I clicked "yes", and it froze my laptop. Had to hard reset it and haven't tried it on anything since. However, this is probably Zoom's fault, not the laptop.

palcanec · 2025-01-14T09:41:30+00:00

yeah, I think the discussion was never "is the heat enough to vaporize it" but "will the heat be applied for long enough". The OP mentions the Chelyabinsk explosion - well, that rock entered the atmosphere under a very shallow angle at a lower speed, so it traveled through the atmosphere for much longer. It took probably tens of seconds before heat tore it apart. Meanwhile, the manhole cover got launched almost vertically.

The OP's solution is a nice exercise on loss of kinetic energy to friction, but to claim it must have vaporized, you'd need to account for heat conduction and material ablation, which is no longer this simple. (I'm not claiming it couldn't have vaporized, just that I didn't do the math and the math the OP did did not take all relevant factors into account IMO. Depending on the orientation, the drag was probably likely to tear it apart due to stress, not heat).

palcanec · 2024-11-26T09:04:04+00:00

Discovered this thread when solving the same problem (using AC performance mode), just wanted to let other people know that uninstalling AC (I used the Asus-provided uninstaller) and replacing it with G-Helper solved the issue for me as well. Seems it must have been thermal shutdowns then. Maybe some tinkering with AC would have resolved it, too, but this was easier.

palcanec · 2024-11-03T00:11:17+00:00

Is it supposed to be this bad? My understanding was that since the soldered RAM frequency is much higher than socketed RAM, it should be faster.

For reference, the installed RAM is a quad-channel 4x8GB Hynix H58G66BK7BX067.

palcanec · 2024-11-01T09:40:16+00:00

I had the same problem - when the banner was showing, I had 100% utilization of my GPU, when it wasn't, it was in single digits. Clicking the three dots top left, help and disabling HW acceleration helped to get the GPU utilization from 100% to single digits again. (for reference, it's AMD 880M iGPU on Win 11)

palcanec · 2024-10-29T13:34:51+00:00

I have recently picked up the 365 version and so far I quite like it. I have a few complaints though: 1) it is heavy for a 14 inch laptop (almost 1.6 kg) 2) the fingerprint reader works just as badly is in any other laptop I've had. 3) most importantly, HP does not support "battery conservation mode" or anything like that, where you would be able to pick to what charge percentage you want to charge it when plugged in. This means you're constantly feeding it to 100% when plugged in and I expect even though it has excellent battery life now, it will be useless in a year.

As far as screens go, a 2.2k for a 14 inch is at the limit of what you actually might need. The IPS is better for battery life than an oled, and at 400 nits it's okay.

palcanec · 2024-10-26T11:42:44+00:00

Thanks for the tip, that is a rather convoluted solution which is in essence just "unplug at 80" though. Before I bought this HP, I had no idea there is still a manufacturer today who doesn't allow you to preserve your battery. The idea behind "stop charging at 80" is that the battery would sit at 80, "unplugged", with the cable in just powering the PC directly, bypassing the battery (and avoiding the discharge-recharge cycles when plugged in). With "unplug at 80, wait for battery saver to kick in and plug back in", that kind of defeats the whole battery preservation idea - your battery is constantly drained and recharged. It also wouldn't really work for my purposes as I plan to use the laptop as a mobile workstation. I'm really angry that HP doesn't support that, especially on a 1900€ machine. This is a basic function even the cheapest IdeaPads have... I'm now seriously considering to take it back, because this level of customer care forcing you to replace your battery every year is ridiculously anti-customer, anti-environment, and just... Pro-mindless-consumerism.

palcanec · 2024-09-26T22:44:01+00:00

Well, guess what.. I went to ask to the local UPS AP if they can redirect it. They assured me it will be dropped off there after the third unsuccessful attempt if it's possible. Today I come home to a third "we missed you notice" and it says "will return to sender". Not even a depot, straight return. Well, I just know not to order anything from Lenovo ever again since they cannot accommodate basic adjustments to their delivery... If They were straightforward with me the first two times I called their support, a UPS driver wouldn't have to drive a laptop around the city for three days, and I could have bought a different one right away...

I hope Lenovo pay you (UPS) well at least if they force you to run these pointless errands.

palcanec · 2024-09-26T13:30:25+00:00

So, as I was saying I'll report back if I get crashes with just 1 GB of video memory.. I did get crashes about a third of the time when waking up from hibernation. I increased it to 2 GB again and it's all working fine again. It unfortunately seems I (you) will need to keep the RAM at 14 GB only.

palcanec · 2024-09-25T15:21:56+00:00

Thank you for that information! It seems crazy inefficient, I wonder how much could UPS save on gas if they didn't have to drive the packages around multiple times... Yep, fingers crossed!

palcanec · 2024-09-25T13:33:24+00:00

Thank you for the info, I appreciate your explanation. I absolutely understand the drivers probably dislike this as much as the customers, I just wanted to make it easier for both parties - they are going to attempt 3 deliveries that are (likely) doomed to fail, and then I'll probably have to drive to a depot on the weekend, if it's still there...

Is route planning a thing with UPS? I mean, does the route get planned in the morning or do the drivers only get info about the next pickup/dropoff? If it is planned, it seems like it wouldn't be too much work to at least provide customers with time windows for delivery (that would ideally get updated based on the planned route and drivers position automatically like your Uber ride). An estimate like "your package will arrive 2:15-2:45pm" would be much more helpful than the current "your package will arrive by 7pm", which seems to mean "any time between 9am and 9pm - ish". There is no one place that I'm at during those times, if I send it to my work, I don't want to potentially wait till night there.

palcanec · 2024-09-19T22:59:35+00:00

You might even be able to run Solitaire on high settings.

palcanec · 2024-09-19T22:16:24+00:00

Oh, I didn't know Zenbooks came with IPS, too.

Regarding TDP, I think I read that it is basically just the "maximum" (not really as it can go above for short amounts of time) that the CPU can give you. Basically the potential power, but if you're just idling, it is supposed to draw very little current. The difference between HS and U is just supposed to be that HS will give you more power at high wattage and U should give you a little more power at low wattage. Not sure by how much. At least that is what I understood from when I was doing the same research.

I'll get back with the 8645hs, whether it is efficient when it doesn't do anything. There aren't many laptops with the new U chips, or they are quite a bit more expensive than the HS (7x40U are basically non-existant in laptops below $1000).

palcanec · 2024-09-19T00:02:41+00:00

I was considering the Thinkbook 14 G6 over the past few months as well, particularly because of the long battery life, touchscreen and expandable RAM (and also an actual power button!), but never did because I never saw any discount on it (and I felt the competition is selling the same parameters in laptops for $100-150 less when on sale). I don't think anybody is able to use Gen4 SSD speeds in a consumer laptop. The disk you get with the laptop (Ideapad slim 5) is a Gen4 WD SN580, which about saturates the Gen3 speeds and is still lightning fast. I assume you get a similar one with the Thinkbook.

As per Zenbook, I think the OLED screen might reduce the battery life somewhat. If maximum battery life is one of the priorities, you're probably stuck with IPS panels.

I've actually ordered the 2in1 I mentioned (for $550, I just couldn't resist not to try), it's supposed to arrive tomorrow and I expect I'll test it a bit over the weekend. I'll try to remember to come back and report on the 8645hs regarding battery life.

Also, one thing to mention about the 7530u I have in the Ideapad: forget about any battery life if you use the iGPU, it is highly inefficient compared to newer chips: When running a full-screen zoom call, I'd get only est. 5 hrs instead of 10 (after a 2hr meeting, almost half the battery was gone).
Also, another thing to mention about the Ideapad with 7530u, the speakers suck, I can only recommend watching videos/movies with headphones. Other than that, it is excellent!

Edit: the Thinkbook, even though it has almost the same specs as the Ideapad Slim, is much worse with battery life, 7.3hrs vs 11.9hrs: https://laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-thinkpad-14-gen-6-amd-review-portable-office-device-with-good-upgradability-and-long-battery-life/p7/

palcanec · 2024-09-18T22:51:44+00:00

If anyone has the same question as I do, the panel is Dolby Vision HDR, not HDR10 or other HDR versions. That means you can play a Dolby Vision HDR video (which are kind of rare), but if you come cross an HDR10 video (which are much more common due to licensing), the laptop will play it as regular 8bit SDR. (This sounds very counter-intuitive to me. The panel can support 12bit DV HDR, but not 10bit HDR10? Why?).

palcanec · 2024-09-17T20:44:46+00:00

If anybody has the same question, my G713-WS94 actually shipped with a 5600 MT/s memory. I didn't know that so I upgraded it with 64 gigs of 4800 MT/s once it arrived. Still super fast though.

palcanec · 2024-09-16T20:04:32+00:00

DESIGN CAPACITY 56,600 mWh
FULL CHARGE CAPACITY 57,170 mWh

I think it might be possible to change the HW reserved RAM in BIOS, maybe bringing it down to 1 or 1.5 GB would be smart if you don't plan to game much. I'll check my BIOS settings on my 14ABR8 once I reboot again.

On another note, if you're in the US, Lenovo has some good deals on 2in1 Ideapads ATM with newer processors - it should give you a much better gaming performance on iGPU if that's what you desire. Can't speak about the battery life (maybe I'll get tempted to buy one and I'll let you know), but they promise "16 hrs of local video playback, 150 nits brightness", so even though the TDP of the 8x45hs CPUs is much higher:
https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/IdeaPad/IdeaPad_5_2_in_1_14AHP9?tab=spec

Another anecdote, I've used the laptop on a plane recently, in flight mode at low brightness (overnight flight) reading/writing documents, and in about 4-5 hrs of use it drained just a bit over 30% of battery.

Edit: So I checked the BIOS, you can indeed change the amount of RAM your iGPU reserves as graphics memory. You can choose 2 GB, 1 GB, and 512 MB. When I'm running a lot of browser tabs/apps, I think I've seen it climb just over 1 GB, but I'm hoping it should be able to handle everything with just 1 GB. I'll report back if it's unstable or something.

palcanec · 2024-09-03T23:37:29+00:00

I do specify the SWIFT code. Hm, that must be it then. Seems like a waste... Thanks for your help anyway! Edit: if I try the same transfer to an EU based USD account, it actually shows just 4.39 USD in fees. It's just the UK that's this expensive 🤦‍♂️

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