Ryzen is for Programmers

Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by vel0city on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:52AM (#14244039)

I've been living the cheap-but-decent portable + big desktop in my personal life for several years now. Between RDP and SSH, I can do practically everything from my laptop with a decent internet connection aside from gaming. Plus, many of those cheap-but-decent laptops get some great battery life, especially if you're offloading the heavy compute onto a different box.

I still drool over getting a sweet $2k+ ultraportable laptop though. I'll let my office buy those things for that work and stick to the cheaper personal life. Portable devices just can't seem to live with the chaos of life, and I'd rather break a $400-500 machine than a $2k machine.

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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by pawadu on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:13AM (#14244785)

I am doing the same [1], SSH and tmux are my best friends. I did however try the expensive-powerful-laptop first [2], it wasn't worth it and my current desktop beats it in everything but gaming.

[1] $350 DIY PC + a $250 second hand thinkpad

[2] $2200 laptop with the latest i7 and discerete GPU.

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Re:Ryzen is for Programmers by rjbwork on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:05PM (#14247565)

I don't have an "ultra portable" but I have a $2500 desktop replacement for work. It's got a 970m and a 6700K. Yes, that's a desktop chip, and it hits 4.2GHz nicely when needed.

I mostly just tote it to the office and home, so it's quite nice.

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