Cisc was never adopted. It all started out basic, then they gradually added more and more shit until you had a complex CPU.

Without the concept of risc there wouldn’t be a cisc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_Fwvta4bY

5 hours watching a video is not that unreasonable for a machine of that age, especially since it’s Intel.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/lenovo-thinkpad-t490#:~:text=Video Playback Battery Rundown Test

According to this review they got 10 hours with wifi off, playing a 720p video that was stored locally on the machine. Youtube is going to have plenty of background tasks going on, wifi is going to be active downloading things, and you’ve probably got more than just youtube in the background so I would consider 5 hours to be expected without really delving deep into power saving (and probably killing performance).

I found out one of my 22-y-o coworkers, with no accident history or the like, pays as much quarterly as I do annually for car insurance.

They’re also 22. Are they also male? I’m on insurance with my mom (a 50 year old woman) and even then when I hit 25 my insurance dropped like 15%. Insurance has always been expensive as hell for men, women don’t get quite as screwed.

Thats what the patent system is designed to do.

They’d had the same model SUV stolen from the same place in May.

IDK, I’d consider getting a different car now at least after having two of the exact same model.

Sedans are less desirable, so not worth stealing. Especially not for Dubai.

FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 gigs, exFAT was created to get around those file system limits of FAT32 and be a reasonable file system.

exFAT is my go to for any external drive now that it’s actually open and fully supported by Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

My work PC costs twice that. There’s Apples influence has nothing to do with my Thinkpad.

I’ve worked on workstations that cost as much as a nice car. Apples pricing only comes close because they charge so much for storage. When you’re working with triple digit gigabytes of ram machines it ain’t cheap.

Apple makes by far the best laptop out there. No machine comes close when it comes to performance and battery life. Intel has a decent performance per watt under load, but under light non idle loads it’s not even close. My Thinkpad is incapable of getting decent battery life. Lenovos 10 hour battery life is a damn lie. I get 30 minutes to 3 hours at best. Our work MacBook pros easily get 10+ doing the exact same workload. AMD gets close, but they’re falling down the same trap Intel has been for the last 10 years.

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 does less than Apple’s Pro Vision and it costs the same. Is it really that overpriced? And the cost goes way way up from there.

it proves unequivocally that Apple fanboys are the most rabid idiots in existence.

Maybe you should look inward before making silly comments like these.

Shit I’ve bought MacBooks for work that cost as much as that headset, and my current laptop costs about as much as this.

$3500 is nothing for a computer, let alone a prosumery AR/VR heatset with a computer built in.

You have to start somewhere. The iPhone was a game changer so it took of instantly. Something like an AR/VR headset is still pretty niche even today about 10 years after VR really became a thing.

It doesn’t even do spatial computing well. It can simulate a single 4k display and that’s it. You can have some other apps floating around you, but not much.

If I could simulate 8 4k displays all around me, or freely float my full blown Mac OS programs and resize them to infinity then I’d be cool with this. But I’ve got more screen in front of me right now than the vision could ever hope to do. And Apples “apps” are far too gimped to be useful. Notes and email are cool, but not much else.

Signal won’t do much when they’re able to triangulate your position with cell tower data.

They’re also “phone-only SIMs” which I’m guessing means voice only, no data.

I wish the temp would get to the mid 20s c near me. It’s been in the negatives Frankenstein for almost a week straight, barely peaking into the positive single digits. And we won’t get above freezing until maybe Wednesday.

If you’re already on a smart phone it has technology to do that. It’s called a cellular connection. LTE and 5G are incredible for taking a tiny slab with you miles away from your home.

On my Archer BE800 and AX201 equipped Thinkpad T14 I’m able to hit just over gigabit on speed tests. Your wifi 6 lite is only 2.4 and 5ghz which is probably why your speeds are so poor, especially if you have other devices on the network.

Unifis wifi 6 offerings were really disappointing. 2.4 5ghz wifi 6 only is just kinda stupid, and I think that’s why it has had such lame reception (no pun intended). Wifi 6 with 6ghz is incredible. Wifi 6 on 5ghz is good. And wifi 6 on 2.4ghz is just kinda awful. It’s not worse than anything previously on 2.4ghz, but it’s just not a step up.

I don’t think we’ll ever hit 6ghz congestion because it just doesn’t go very far.

In downtown areas 2.4ghz wifi is basically useless, but 5ghz is still pretty serviceable thanks to it’s lower range and more channels. 6ghz is just another 2.4 to 5ghz jump, but now we’re getting down to single room levels of range.

Wifi cannot ever be better than ethernet because all APs will use ethernet to connect out to other things.

But wifi 6 on my laptop can reach higher speeds than the ethernet port on my laptop. In that regard it actually is better.

Google fiber and any other ISP that offers 1gbit or greater speeds are already giving with 6 routers, and 7 is soon to follow. Wifi 7 is already planned for Google Fiber and I know others have it on the way. Basically any ISP offering >1gbit speeds is going to have a wifi 7 router soon.

https://fiber.google.com/blog/2023/10/gfiber-labs-announces-first-project-20.html

I tried it a long time ago and it was shitty and never looked again. I assume it doesn’t offer lossless music playback so I’m happy with Apple music.