Re:USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
by roywashere on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:48AM
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To be honest I see this as a win for laptops nowadays. I still work from home most days of the week and I prefer not to have a power hungry workstation turned on all day, especially with current electricity prices. Because of unfortunate timing of when my contract expired I already pay around 800 euros per month for energy
Re:USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
by gambiting on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @03:34AM
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>>Because of unfortunate timing of when my contract expired I already pay around 800 euros per month for energy
Wait, what? Are you like cryptomining or something? That's actually insane. I charge two electric cars at home, work from home using a powerful workstation, and my electricity is about £100/month. How do you manage to spend 800 euro a month????
Re:USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)
by roywashere on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:18AM
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No I am not crypto mining. Please mind I said 'energy', it includes gas. Electric is about 175 euros
And good luck getting anything close to RTX 3090Ti performance in a laptop. It'd basically be a toasted oven on your lap.
Desktops can just sink a ton more heat, and as process shrinks and die size increases have gotten us less and less additional performance each year, we're just pushing power up to the point now where a TOTL gaming desktop is pulling close to 1KW. A laptop will never come close. If you really do want to try a literal desktop CPU in a laptop, there are mfgs like Eurocom and Sager that will sell you one, just don't expect it not to throttle a lot under actual heavy workloads.