Re:2016 Razer Blade Pro Review
by friedman23 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @12:13AM
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There is no reason for me to buy this. Laptops like this have a very specific valid use case which is people that travel all the time and want to play video games. If you are not traveling all the time and want to play video games buying a desktop and a laptop will likely give you a better experience in both aspects and could potentially be less expensive.
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Gaming laptops seem relevant for VR and/or machine learning developers. I suppose for machine learning you can use cloud based GPUs but it's still not a bad idea to have a decent offline setup.
Running 'serious' GPU experiments on your primary laptop is a pretty miserable experience. If the experiment needs a few hours to compute, you have to prevent your laptop from sleeping. I also doubt the laptop will last long if you regularly max out the GPU for 12 hours at a time.
That said...Developing against a cloud machine sucks too. I think VNCing to a machine on the local network from a good ultrabook might be best.
Re:2016 Razer Blade Pro Review
by lucaspiller on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:23AM
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> Developing against a cloud machine sucks too
Really depends on where your cloud is in relation to you. I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop, and ping times to my workstation at home (on the other side of the city) are ~5ms.
For me it's never the ping times that are a problem, but bandwidth. Shuffling 50+ GB of data back and forth gets annoying very fast.
Yea we have an Alienware laptop with similar specs a work we use for demoing and testing VR projects while on the road, but day to day development in the office is generally done on workstations.
I work at a games development studio, and we have a couple of similarly extremely specced laptops, we use them every time we go to game conferences and such, to run full suite of servers needed to start the game in a limited environment.
No kidding, I went to E3 2015 (as a demoist) with a Laptop that had 64G of ram and a 6 core CPU.
The thing was so expensive that I had to declare it through customs.
The thing was grunty though; not a machine for document editing and email.
Shamelessly looking through your comments, I'm 99% certain we work at the same company :P
Yes, that sounds like the spec we sent to E3 2 years ago to run our servers for the demo booth - had to be fully encrypted as well.
Since I even listed the name of the studio I work at, if you're saying this it's entirely possible. :)