[HELP] post-Laptop retirement | Which NVMe to pick |1x PCIe 4.0 | 2x PCIe 3.0| $1000 budget

host_c

@rpqu said: Personally, I prefer Logitech K120. It's cheap, ubiquitous, and I'm accustomed to it. The travel distance of modern keyboard is unpleasant. And I have used Mac, MacBook several times during high school, college. It just doesn't feel right.

It will, when you realize that 14+ hours of uptime on at least an M2/M3/M4 will out-pass whatever you can do on an ordinary x86, I will patiently wait until you get there.... it took me 2 decades

rpqu

@LEBUserJoe said:
Just saying not done on any laptops if all honest, but soldering your own ram pads isnt hardest, templates and a steady hand upgrades both my mac minis

If I got steady hand I would have fixed my own phone

@host_c said:

@rpqu said: Personally, I prefer Logitech K120. It's cheap, ubiquitous, and I'm accustomed to it. The travel distance of modern keyboard is unpleasant. And I have used Mac, MacBook several times during high school, college. It just doesn't feel right.

It will, when you realize that 14+ hours of uptime on at least an M2/M3/M4 will out-pass whatever you can do on an ordinary x86, I will patiently wait until you get there.... it took me 2 decades

I got 9h . But that's enough for typical long flight ( ~8H) flight.

LEBUserJoe

It will, when you realize that 14+ hours of uptime on at least an M2/M3/M4 will out-pass whatever you can do on an ordinary x86, I will patiently wait until you get there.... it took me 2 decades

A man that has experience with the M series, turned so many of us over to the apple world we all swore we would never join.

Just shows if you got a good enough product, they will come.

brodiechilliam

@rpqu said:
Dear LET,

I decide to my retire my laptop because I thought it's about time I replace my main machine.
similar spec and situation to @host_c's previous laptop
Now, I'm in unfamiliar situation, as it have these NVMe slots:

• 1x PCIe 4.0
• 2x PCIe 3.0

Unfortunately, it doesn't have slot for 2.5" HDD, so, which drive I should choose considering the following:

• Heavy dev usage
• Will be running close to 24/7/365 except when I turned it off for travel
• Last more than 7 years (10y is ideal)
• Okay with vibration & shocks

I happened to purchased 1x WD IX SN530 2TB nvme for $220 on a whim, should I cancel it?

Budget: below $1k to populate all the 3 slots.
(plan with deferral until AI bubble pops is welcome, as I'm going to upgrade the ram gradually to 128GB DDR4)

would recommend a Sata NVDD 50 with 10 IOP and 128mb storage

host_c

@LEBUserJoe said: Just shows if you got a good enough product, they will come.

So true........

I still have to run a Windows VM local on it for some broadcom FC switches we manage, but since thoes are like 4, i can live with that discomfort, and we rarely touch thoes twice a year.

In rest, for the moment, I will never look back.

Imagine the pain i felt after spending ±4K Euros on a x86 Laptop I bought ±6 moths back, it will eat dust in the garage playing YouTube music and VCDS forum reads for the rest of it's life.

rpqu

@LEBUserJoe said:

It will, when you realize that 14+ hours of uptime on at least an M2/M3/M4 will out-pass whatever you can do on an ordinary x86, I will patiently wait until you get there.... it took me 2 decades

A man that has experience with the M series, turned so many of us over to the apple world we all swore we would never join.

Just shows if you got a good enough product, they will come.

Maybe ~10 years from now ..By then, local LLM solution already exist

@host_c said:

@LEBUserJoe said: Just shows if you got a good enough product, they will come.

So true........

I still have to run a Windows VM local on it for some broadcom FC switches we manage, but since thoes are like 4, i can live with that discomfort, and we rarely touch thoes twice a year.

In rest, for the moment, I will never look back.

Imagine the pain i felt after spending ±4K Euros on a x86 Laptop I bought ±6 moths back, it will eat dust in the garage playing YouTube music and VCDS forum reads for the rest of it's life.

Man, you could have sold it to me for €1k, too bad I have purchased new (used laptop) gears