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Get mac studio and connect 5 display easy...... Plus point get beefy ram to run local llm
I use cyborg 15 A13UDX
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that's funny.
ya I read up on those ones, they are cool thank you for that. For me though, that would be a challenge, handling the parts, upgrading them etc. But the concept is really cool.
lol, the N100's though are not very beefy? Compact and good for travel though it seems.
I def tried a mac back in 2016, no matter how much I tried (like 3 months) I could not get used to it
But for sure the specs on a mac would handle it no problem.
That one's pretty slick. Just looked up the specs, great laptop for sure:
Processor: 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13420H (8 cores / 12 threads; base 2.1 GHz, boost up to 4.6 GHz)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 with 6 GB GDDR6
Display: 15.6" Full HD (1920×1080), IPS panel with 144 Hz refresh rate
Memory: 16 GB DDR5-5200 (upgradeable)
Storage: 512 GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 SSD
Hey Zed, thanks for looking out.
I’ve mentioned this before, but I’m a longtime fan and heavy user of DisplayLink. If your GPU has enough muscle, you can easily expand your setup using USB DisplayLink adapters. With DisplayLink, your main GPU handles all the rendering, the CPU compresses the output, and the image is sent over USB. It’s efficient in terms of bandwidth, but not built for high-performance tasks. That said, USB 3 (5Gb/s) handles 1080p video playback and everyday productivity (browsing, docs, multitasking) just fine. If that matches your workflow, you can comfortably run 4 or more DisplayLink adapters for extra screen real estate.
My setup changed recently, but I used to run 2 monitors directly from a laptop plus 4 via DisplayLink, for 6 screens total. Back then I was using Intel Arc, and since my workload wasn’t GPU-heavy, it held up well. These days, I’ve upgraded to a Radeon 780M driving 3 monitors directly, with another 3 on DisplayLink. There’s a noticeable bump in performance, though I suspect that’s more about CPU gains than GPU horsepower.
Yeah config is good the laptop is shit, always got lag and feels slow.
my i5 12600K
16GB DDR4 Pc is faster then this shit
If i need performance i get a desktop.
Fanless is a must for me, i dont like the noise that vents do. On laptops they are worse because they dont put quiet ones. Even noctua ones are not that silent.
Bonus: you won’t have to run WSL to be able to do anything
Although MacBooks are a little expensive than competitors, they work for quite a while in comparison. I have been using my MacBook Pro for the last 8 years and it is still going perfectly fine. All though I am not doing heavy work on it.
buy it assembled, there is a choice.
From the looks of it the laptop does have thunderbolt and if you arent going crazy resolution (as someone else stated) you should be able to get a few more monitors out of what ever GPU you have in your laptop.
I just use a 42" 4K TV, avoids ugly bezels in the middle
ok took a second, I had to read up on this. ok wow, so I can actually have 3 extra monitors right now with that set up. So the Display link distributes some of the load to the CPU (at least from what I can read up on), GPU is still doing most of work etc. I could actually get away with that set up on my current laptop. My CPU usage sits around 40% during the day between all tasks etc so I could easily handle this. Thank you very much for that data, really cool.
~5 years ago I sold a Bash program to a client for processing csv portfolio data, I wrote it on linux and he ended up running it on a Mac... thru remote debugging I discovered that associative arrays and other basic features of the language that had been supported for a decade on linux were unsupported on his Mac. Back then macOS shipped with a 15 years old version of Bash due to licensing... it was so obsolete that I could barely fit an explanation for why the program was crashing thru the Overton window of my client, who was reading my emails on his sparkling expensive Mac.
Turns out, we discovered that he could install a 15 years newer version of Bash via something called Homebrew.
lol lag is never fun. I looked up your processor on Amazon. The i5-12600K seems very solid, it has 1,600 reviews with a 4.8-star rating. Solid for sure.
Tracking. I always valued performance and had a desktop for years. Around 2020 I noticed laptops were catching up to desktops in terms of price and usability, so I switched over. For the longest time I always had these monster desktops. That’s a good point on the fanless, I did a lot of work to sound deaden my office and didn’t really think of laptop fans as a source of noise.
lol
I have a 24-core Intel Ultra 9 285K desktop. It runs on an iGPU and runs pretty cool since I don't game.
The Ryzen 9950X also has an iGPU, but even running a VPS host on only Ryzen 9000s where I manually updated the ASRock BIOS, I haven't used a Ryzen desktop in years (don't ask me).
If you want a powerful desktop but don't game build one but just skip the GPU. Pre-built high-end PCs usually include GPUs. I even skip the RGB.
Before Clang/LLVM matured FreeBSD actually used GCC 4.2.1 from 2007, just because of the GPLv3. It's likely similar for Apple, where the GPLv3 may open up Apple's signing keys.
The GPLv3 was built mainly to prevent locked-down appliances from being built with FOSS tools. But then Linux and other stayed with the GPLv2 to prevent a fork or migration to BSD.
Source: I daily drove FreeBSD from 2012-2022.
What motherboard do you have on that intel? Z chip or B? Do you run it in eco mode? Lower power limits to save $ on electricity or default? What cooler you have on it?
apple cpu has a higher energy efficiency ratio these years. for a mobile device, I would recommend macbook air or pro are all ok.
basically I just treat it as a better GUI plus *nix, however it doesn’t really be a unix.
if you have some specific softwares that can’t migrate to macos, it’s not worth to give it a go, otherwise I think it’s good for many of IT users if you are good at command line.
For 1k you can get
Rtx5070
2.5k display
1T nvme, 16 ram
Okay, totally tracking on that. To be honest, it sounds like you’re a bit more sophisticated when it comes to the ins and outs of a computer. I definitely like to try and customize mine as much as possible, pretty much anything I can do from the settings panel only, once it gets into the BIOS, removing system files etc I don't have a ton of experience. Sounds like you know how to deal with the hardware and update the drivers, etc. How much RAM do you use for that setup? I have 32 gigs right now and I almost max it out, definitely going to upgrade to 64 gigs shortly.
Yes, I’ve definitely heard nothing but good things about Apple because of the hardware. The only issue for me is I just cannot get used to the OS, the workflow, even the mouse clicking and those types of things. I do know you can basically set up an emulator for Windows on a Mac. But it is a good solution to have that hardware for sure.
That's cool. I researched it, and that one does look good. However, I would need a 17-inch or even an 18-inch monitor on the laptop, and I'm looking for 64 gigabytes of RAM. Hard disk space is good though, thanks for the info on it.