Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "The Friday Checkout" channel.

Regarding Samsung's crysis (1 ? 2 ? Remastered ?) mode, I really appreciate that it is for EXECUTIVES. That's actually so rare to see. If a problem arrives and, like, more work needs to be done, it's usually the regular employees that take the grunt. Here it seems like they are actually taking this seriously. Even though I don't like Samsung anymore, I respect this part of their work ethic.
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It wasn't Qualcomm which lit up the efficiency fire under Intel's bu^^. Because you can't answer to something like that in a couple of months. It was Apple, 4 years ago when they launched M1 which lit up the efficiency fire. That's how long architecting, designing and manufacturing a chip takes. And it can take even more than 4 years. I'm baffled about this "launch". Apparently actual reviews come only on 24th of September ? This seems to have been only a pre-launch hands on. Now wainting for another 3 weeks will be a bit painful. But I am excited about Lunar Lake, I really hope Intel didn't screw this one. I was mostly alone in battling people which were touting "hurr ArM iS sO mUcH mOrE eFfIcIeNt tHaN x86. durrr die x86" and I tried to explain that Apple's M efficiency comes from more sources, not ARM alone. Two of the major ones was memory directly on chip and better manufacturing node. Now Intel did both with Lunar Lake. Once the drivers for Linux are matured, we'll be able to see a proper ARM vs x86 comparison that's more apples to apples (pun unintended).
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Can't wait for Framework to release their laptops with that. Which has good support for Linux. We're slowly getting to actual 8+ work hours of battery life in non-Apple land too.
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Yeah, but with their many SJW-type of policies and takes and things like DEI, it's hard for people to trust Mozilla. First thing, I think they need to have a channel for donations that strictly, directly, go to Firefox. There's many people that care and like Firefox, but wouldn't want their money to go to some cancel-culture campaign or whatever they're doing this month, but instead to be assured that the donations go for the developers and testers and UI/UX and so on just to make Firefox better. Hopefully the guy that was supposed to be the next CEO makes it back and takes the position and steers the ship in the right way.
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It is a glorified RDP hardware. And 2 x 4K doesn't need THAT much. You can have good 1080p quality with 10 Mbit/s. 4K is 4 times the number of pixels of 1080p, so AT MOST it would need 40 MBit/s. I say at most, because video streming will be (of course) done using compression (probably AV1) and if the video is not very "busy" in the amount of small details, then the extra pixels won't add much when compressed. So 2x4K would be 80 Mbit/s. Let's round it to 100 Mbit/s and have them at 60 FPS. And no, doubling the framerate doesn't double the size, again, because of compression. Of course, if you have more, it will be better. But I wouldn't be surprised if it would actually be totally fine with 100 MBit/s. Because normal applications have a lot of spaces that are basic and simple. Like margins on a website or on a Word document, that gets compressed very easily. Or the background color of the Excel cells, those are easy to compress too, and also don't move much, so you might get it to look artifact-y only when you scroll, but look crystal clear when you're just typing stuff and 95% of the screen is static. The taskbar of the OS and the menu/top of the app(s) are also very static, so in reality it's like you have fewer number of pixels.
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If you don't blink, you might be able to see the correction on the top right side sliding into view when he said that.
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@BuggiEU Because that's normal ? I mean, normal it is for the reviews to come a bit before the launch. The launch means they are up for selling. Isn't it normal to have reviews so people know if it's worth buying ?
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@TheFridayCheckout Intel ANNOUNCED not released. Sorry to shout, it triggered me greatly, such a basic mistake.
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I was wondering too, glad I'm not the only one. One Wikipedia search later, quote: "A breast pump is a mechanical device that lactating women use to extract milk from their breasts. They may be manual devices powered by hand or foot movements or automatic devices powered by electricity."' Oh well...
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I was curios too. I hate when acronyms aren't spelled out at their first mention. Even when I know already what they mean.
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Lunar Lake is only half of next gen, meant for very efficient ultrabooks. The other half is Arrow Lake. While I normally don't like soldered memory (or soldered anything) I'm very excited about Lunar Lake. It should be much more efficient, and it should FINALLY kill the gigantic horde of "bUt aRm iS sO mUcH mOrE eFfiCieNt, die x86 hurr durr". If having proper controls and drivers and software (like Linux) it should finally be on par with Apple's M powered laptops, as far as ability to be efficient (latest manufacturing node, memory on chip and not a massively bloated OS + apps - like Windows). That is, it won't be dragged down by non-ISA factors that make x86 seem less efficient than ARM. Well, I do think it is less efficient, but to a much smaller degree, like 5-10%, nothing massive and certainly not something to ditch x86 over. Hopefully with LunarLake we'll see the real difference.
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@chill89892 Yeah man, you know you have to count when you use a grenade, that makes it a great unit of time. Grenades ago could mean 30 seconds ago :)) Jokes aside, I think he just made a typo
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@BuggiEU What have phones have to do with this ? Look at Zen 5. And all CPU launches before that.
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@protocetid To be fair, x86 has a bad rep on mobile devices because Intel's Atom cores were mostly a flop. For a long time. Either too weak, or to hungry. But I think we're now over this with both Intel and AMD.
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@protocetid Heat and energy efficiency go hand in hand. If some varies differently from the other, then it's not something x86 vs ARM, but that particular implementation, the manufacturing node used, the IHS, things like that. The software freedoms... well, that's still kind of not something that's exclusive to x86 or against ARM, but something more on Android and iOS and Google Services. Pinephones exist, and you can install everything there. Another (non phone) ARM that is very free is Raspberry Pi. So, it's not ARM's fault that nowadays smartphones are so incredibly closed and spyware. It's Google + Apple + Samsung mainly + the rest of manufacturers. And, yeah, it's true, nowadays the performance is so good, that for normal apps, especially if you don't have so much spyware on it, it's already something that can be easily be done by most CPUs, even very low end ones.
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@protocetid I think I saw recently that there's a new tablet that's also powered by AMD. It would be nice to have a phone too. Regarding it being powered by AMD... I'd say that the Steam Deck APU is a good chip for that. It is better optimized for low wattages. The problem with phones is that in order to be successfuly, you'd have to have most of the usual smartphone apps/programs on it. And it can be seen on the Pinephone that stuff isn't there yet. I mean, it's not even the apps, the DE itself still needs polishing. On this note, the channel "Switched to Linux" recently did a lot of tests on a Pinephone. Soo... yeah, it would take a while for this to take off, so to speak.
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@protocetid Actually, TDP is not how much a chip uses, though it's not that far off either. When you don't have something else, and if you don't need/expect good precision, it can be used instead. The thing is that TDP is how much HEAT a cooler for that chip should be able to dissipate. Which if you think about it, that and how much the chip uses should never be the same, unless the chip is literally a resistor. As an example, on AMD's Zen 4 chips, the top desktop ones, they have 170W TDP, but they can consume (without overclocking) 230W in sustained load. Fortunatly, this is one of the bigger deviations, usually the TDP is closer to the actual consumption. Well, PEAK sustained consumption! The chip, if not in fully load, will always consume (much) less. And on short burst, it can consume (much) more. Getting back. Steam Deck is 15W TDP, but it's optimized to run at more like 3-9W. In games like Dead Cells 2 (which is a 2d indie game, pretty lightweight, but still far from idle-like power required) the OLED version of Steam Deck can run for over 8 hours. With a 50 Wh battery, that means that, in average, the chip + screen + wifi + audio, I think without bluetooth, consumes about 6W. Which makes me think that the chip itself is consuming like 3-4 W. Still, given that the Steam Deck has only 4c/8t, that's not exactly high end. Current phone flagships are certainly both more performant and more efficient. Not sure how it competes on GPU performance. A typical phone battery nowadays has 5000 mAh, which, given that the Li-Ion batteries usually hover at 4V (between 3.7 and 4.2), that makes for a battery capacity of aprox 20 Wh. Less than half of what the Steam Deck has. So the Steam Deck's APU (which I still consider the closest in x86 space to what a phone or a very efficient tablet/ultrabook would need) is not that efficient as compared to the current smartphone chips. Though, it is also built on 6nm, while the most recent chips are on 3nm, almost 2 generations newer, which is a pretty big difference. So, overall, I think that on the hardware side, while it will most likely be a setback in terms of performance or (maybe even and) efficiency, I think that if they wanted, both Intel and AMD could come up with a chip for a smartphone that still has decent efficiency and performance, just not flagship level. Now, on the software side, the advantage with Linux ... that is, GNU/Linux phones (Android, technically, is also Linux) is also the control that you get. And, I guess, a bit of compatibility for the software that's made for the desktop. I wouldn't say it's a big demand, unfortunately. Most likely just techies like us, and maybe privacy nerds. Still, it is nice to see how far Pinephone got, even though it seems like what they have is a bit too low end. The chip itself can be very efficient, they don't have a lot of cores or overclocked them or anything, it seems that the firmware and drivers they use or something is still not up to the task. Or maybe everything is rendered with the CPU instead of the GPU, dunno. But the chip itself is pretty common ARM chip with 4 A53 cores, those can totally be efficient. Oh, and good point about Waydroid. Haven't checked it, but from what I remember, you can already run a lot of apps through it. So you can get the best of both worlds with it.
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For what ? GPUs ?
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@divyanshbhutra5071 You're VERY wrong about upgrading from DDR4 to DDR5. No motherboard laptop or desktop supports that (except some very niche experiments). Only the 12th, 13th and 14th gen Intel CPUs support both DDR4 and DDR5, but not at the same time. And, theoretically motherboards could have slots for both of them, but it's a massive cost that basically nobody would benefit from. So no matter what computer you have, you were locked into DDR4 or DDR5 anyway. The problem is that those 8 GB that are soldered will always be 8 GB. And that dual channel will be meh at best, since you can't have matching sticks of memory. But the dual channel thing is not a gigantic issue. But 8 + 16 GB of RAM, if you take care of that laptop and if it's not built badly, can still last you and can still be usable 10 years after its release. That's not that bad, I'd say. Certainly not enough to warrant it illegal. I do wish they would be taxed slightly more for being closer to e-waste.
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That would actually be best, since that means that China won't suddenly have 60% of the global chip manufacturing in their pockets. If TSMC disappears, then Samsung and Intel will boom in profitability as everybody will fight on getting chips produced. I guess whatever China has in house will also boom in production and profitability. But it will be a huge distruption too, as a lot of chips will simply not be made anymore, smartphones and many industries will suddenly have huge bottlenecks. Trump is crazy enough to welcome a situation like this.
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@systemBuilder Hey, it's true that the Intel chips were not efficient. But the heating part is totally Apple's fault. They had a colossal failure of a cooling system. Literally the worst in the market. I'm even questioning if they did it on purpose in order to justify the switch.
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@felipematheus853 That's news to me, that the ARM GPU is absurdly efficient. Any sources on that ?
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@felipematheus853 Pfffff, those comparisons are so off. 5600G is a desktop CPU. Second RX 580 is very old (in other words, meaningless in a comparison of today's state of anything) but also is ... a discreet GPU, which totally throws out of the window the efficiency comparison. Lastly it's ... not x86, lol. Still, if a chip can run CS:GO at 1 W that would be impressive. But I didn't find that. I did find that the M1 GPU runs at about 10 W, which is about as much as I expect. AMD's Z1 will also run at 10W on the lower end. Lunar Lake will be able to run the whole thing at 10W. Technically the others too, but LL should run a bit better when only fed 10W in total.
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I don't use adblockers and never had. And I DO know about them. For me, it's simple: if it's in decent amounts, it's my way of paying for the service. If it's too much (there's some sites which are litered with them) then I simply quit that website, it just doesn't deserve anything. Not having an adblock allows me to see this difference better, while still helping normal websites pay their hosting bill. For YT I have premium for almost a decade, I think. Long before they've gone so insane with ads. Frankly, just knowing how hostile they are with ads, and also knowing other stupid sh!t they've done (like the dislike counter), I am waiting for a platform or way that can have the same reach and interactibility (I do read a lot of comments and write some replies, sometimes I can actually get to some nice micro-conversations) and I think I will jump ship. But it seems that will take some time.
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@TheFridayCheckout please fix the chapters. Thank you!
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@panathatube Microsoft also has a trackrecord of not properly supporting their hardware, while Hauwei showed extreme resillience. From these alone, I'd give more chances to Harmony OS
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@panathatube Where does that "abandon" come from ? They would simply also make their app for HarmonyOS too, alongside iOS and Android. Because they want to have access to the customers who have Huawei. If you're speaking about customers (not app developers) then some are already using Huawei. Even the versions where installing Play Store apps is quite difficult (and some, like banking apps, I think don't even work at all). Though I don't know how much % of the market share they are.
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@quantumblurrr Most probably they will.
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@protocetid Yeah, that's a good parallel. I can only wish it also turns true.
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@xiphoid2011 You're not wrong, but for many, the money they got actually helps them train better. Because many live in countries where there's massive underfunding and the athletes are more of an exception rather than the norm. It's the harsh reality. I know this is the case with my country, Romania, literally all the medals we got are the sole merits of their respective athletes and those very near them, and basically 0% merit for the state/government or the mass-media (which has like 30% football aka soccer news, 30% tennis news, 30% gossips, usually around the people involved in football/soccer, 10% at most all the other sports combined). And Romania is, overall, kind of mid-level in terms of how rich it is, there's certainly countries which are much worse off. So, yeah, $1000 extra can be a significant boost in the revenue, helping with the stress of travelling and having adequate equipment and nutrition and people around the athelte also getting to a decent level of payment and so on.
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