Claims to be an ai laptop. Has 8 GB of vram in a 5050.
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The LLM's are not run on the gpu but rather on the cpu "AMD Ryzen AI 400" for the higher model and use therefor the system memory.
I feel like the "AI capable" marketed CPUs are a sham. For the average user, it's just going to feel slow compared to cloud compute, so it's just training the average person to not bother buying AI-labelled hardware for AI.
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But... Do we need laptops any lighter than this? Like, I'm not moving around my 13 inch Macbook and thinking: "oh god this is a beast". My biggest issue with laptops now days is battery life and performance, both of which my Macbook meets perfectly. Not that I like the OS or the company tbh, especially as a FOSS enthusiast.
Weight is definitely old of those things that you only notice when you notice but it's still just a nice to have rather that critical feature. Like a more ergonomic keyboard etc. Many good parts make a good machine.
It's one of my main criteria for my next personal laptop. I commute very frequently and travel between 2 homes, most of the time by bike and public transportation. I want to carry as light as possible.
I have a tablet but it's nowhere near the flexibility of a Linux laptop.
I think we have gone way past the ideal weight for laptops. My favorite laptop weight wise was an HO from 2009. It was 6 pounds. That thing was great. You could sit it in your lap, and it would stay there. I have a MacBook at half that weight, and it slips off my lap constantly. Part of that is the material, but part of it is that it is so light.
I really wish we could start focusing on ideal dimensions, rather than focusing on extremes just for the headlines.
Yes. Weight reduction in one place means they can increase weight in other, like battery density or heftier components (are chips and heatsinks major contributors to weight?) without affecting total weight. Same way making a phone thinner allows you to add more battery.
I just bought an old thinkpad (x280) and i’m delighted how much lighter it is than my 16” mbp
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Meanwhile, I just got a cooling pad for my $800 laptop with a RTX 4060 that makes it bulkier and heavier, but 20C cooler when doing Blender renders. The sleek $3000 MacBook Pro I got from work would only render at half the speed, though it wouldn’t need the cooling pad. As long as I can work from the sofa or bed on a reasonably powerful machine, it’s not worth almost quadrupole the price for thinner and lighter, especially with less muscle.
Have you looked into streaming from a desktop? I'm using sunshine/moonlight to stream my video editor from gaming PC to Thinkpad and it works really well! The quality and responsiveness is really good these days to the point where it's hard to even tell it's a stream.
This is the way
You get all the power of a PC. There's literally no better way to work on the go, and you can buy the cheapest little laptop known to man.
When you say stream you mean remote desktop, right?
The functionally, not the product, yes. Sunshine and moonlight is a more performant alternative to native remote desktop (rdp).
Yes I meant functionally ie I meant remote desktop generically rather than RDP. Can I think of sunshine & moonlight as just another alternative to VNC (except better performer?).
I would say so, yes.
(I'm not the original commented, but I do use them too.)
They came to be after Nvidia published their gaming streaming as an open source alternative. Nvidia dropped their product. Sunshine and moonlight still actively develop.
Personally, I use them to stream my desktop to TV, for desktop, watching stuff, and sometimes gaming.
Thanks to both of you. Never heard of it before. Might come in handy when I make music. Have a fanless (ie silent) laptop under which I place picnic ice bricks. Controlling my desktop (sunshine) with the laptop (moonlight) might be better.
Infinitely better, as long as your network and encoding are set up properly. At the very least, you won't need the ice bricks.
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Kinda fascinating how they manage to cram RTX GPUs in there, don't know how practical it is given the obvious constraints in battery life and cooling but eh. If the new models are anything like the current models they'll even have decent I/O (minus the ethernet port grumble grumble)
If they offered an AMD version with a dedicated AMD GPU I'd even be half interested. But not really, my ThinkPad P14s is gonna serve me very well for the next 10 years or so.
Macbook Air isn't just about the weight, the processor/horsepower are a draw. I have to wonder if LG can compete with Apple's performance, rather than just making a lighter laptop. The Macbook Air is already quite light. The Macbook Pro is a beast.
With another AI talk to try to hype up consumers in the article, I wouldn't be surprised this thing is pretty much like a Chromebook that has to call servers to do much things.. Still sticking to older tech
I think i will rather add a framework mainboard if i feel my 2018 Thinkpad needs an upgrade. Frame and screen are still like new and it's quite repairable.
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