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Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan by Erlich_Bachman on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:21PM (#15820934)
Can you please consider offering ECC memory in your laptops? ECC is a very important technology for businesses. Errors in non-ECC memory, while somewhat rare, are not once-in-lifetime-of-universe, they are more like 1 bitflip per year kind of thing, which for some businesses can be considered worth talking about.

There is a demand for this, and almost no one is doing this. The only other company that has done it so far is Lenovo, and if you know anything about privacy and hidden adware and history of spyware - you will not buy any Lenovo product.

ECC memory would require a Xeon, but it would be possible to underclock it to bring it to a mobile heat emission profile.

Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan by jkollross on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:09PM (#15821399)
45W mobile Xeons that support ECC already exist. https://ark.intel.com/products/series/97141/Intel-Xeon-Proce...
Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan by Already__Taken on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:22AM (#15822838)
Isn't mobile more like 15W though?
Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan by mciancia on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:39AM (#15823093)
Depends on the definition of mobile I guess.
Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan by noir_lord on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:48AM (#15823474)
I've got a T470P (i7-7700hq), that's a 45W part in a 14" laptop.

If I balls to the wall it I can kill the battery in 90 minutes (though they are swappable) but I average ~6 hours under actual work conditions (VMs and Intelligent).

It spends the vast majority of time sat at a few percent utilisation but the processing power is there for those few second operations you run infrequently (build from scratch, indexing a large project etc).

I love it frankly, not turned desktop on at home more than once or twice since July.

Re:System76 ME Firmware Updates Plan by brians on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:47PM (#15821316)
Or AMD, or ARM