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Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by zdragnar on Saturday February 04, 2023 @11:21AM (#34655562)
My wife has only ever owned cheap Chromebooks, and has never complained that they were slow. I've used them with her streaming videos and such, and I agree- simple web browsing isn't slowing anything down on modern hardware.

Even on a modern ultralight laptop, I can run two chrome profiles, three instances of vscode running different projects, docker and a few other things and the CPU never gets pegged. There's a ton of memory pressure from a memory leak somewhere that I haven't bothered tracking down yet- I suspect the SWC compiler (thanks, rust) but haven't proven it yet. All that and I'm still getting 8+ hours of battery life.

Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by pas on Sunday February 05, 2023 @09:41AM (#34665252)
Which notebook model is this? Which OS are you running on it? Would you buy it again given the same budget today? (Or said in another way, is there something better now?)
Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by zdragnar on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:11PM (#34687133)
I'm running an lg gram, with the swaywm flavor of Manjaro. So far, everything hardware-wise has worked pretty flawlessly, though given the option, I'd rather have 32 gigs of ram than 16.

I'm really tempted by the idea of a Framework style laptop with user serviceable parts, but my work style has me moving a fair amount, so not having battery or thermal issues is such a boon I don't know that I could make the switch. In the last 6 hours I've written and compiled code, run tests, attended video calls, streamed video from websites, browsed the internet for recipes for dinner, chatted on slack and am still on 46% battery remaining. I have yet to hear the fans turn on.

The two areas this thing will fall down on is music and gaming. The speakers are pretty bad, and though it can run light games off of steam, I doubt it would do well with anything super graphically intense (though I haven't actually tried much, to be honest). Also, the built-in webcam sucks, but decent webcams and headphones are cheap, so it's really only games that you'd want something else for.

Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by pas on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @07:16AM (#34707052)
Thanks!

I've looked at the LG gram before (the 2021 model [0]), but wasn't convinced. And now after seeing a friend's new Lenovo legion 5 I'm even more uncertain of which one should I pick. (That Lenovo has a handy button to set the power envelope, which seems to actually work.)

I also usually move a lot, but I don't want to optimize for that. It's easier to find a power outlet than to cool a throttled laptop.

[0] https://www.rtings.com/laptop/reviews/lg/gram-17-2021

Re:AMD Killed the Itanium by zdragnar on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:01PM (#34716874)
I can't speak for how Windows behaves on it, but I've never noticed any throttling. The only time the fans have kicked on is when the battery is plugged in and charging. As I said before, though, I also don't really game on it.

I don't know if / how it runs linux, but I've got a friend with a legion, and was also happy with it.

If you'd rather have better graphical performance than battery life, definitely go with the legion. If you can't stand the thought of being tethered to a power cord every time you have to do something serious, then you might want to consider the gram.

I've had gaming laptops before, and after putting the battery through the ringer after awhile it was a struggle to get 4 hours unplugged, which I simply didn't want to deal with again.