I guess whatever distro uses the least resources.

The power difference is going to be negligible though. Unless you’re running a pentium 4 and all you do is boot the OS, check mail, then shut it down you’d never notice a difference. As soon as you open a web browser any savings goes out the window. The web will destroy any savings a distro has.

Also performant doesn’t necessarily mean more efficient. It could mean it better utilizes the hardware, but because it’s using more of the hardware it’s using more power.

As long as you’re not running something that gets the CPU going crazy I doubt you’d suck in any I Dirt.

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When’s valve shipping them? Have they even given an eta yet?

It’s not always accessible. Not all tables have built in outlets in spots that’d reach where I need to be.

Meetings. Have you never had a day where you’re constantly bouncing between meetings, or helping others?

I don’t know about you. But when I get home my work laptop stays in my backpack, and I don’t think about it. I need a laptop with enough battery life that I can get into work the next day and get through a 4 hour meeting without worrying if it’s going to die regardless of what I was doing the previous day.

Microsoft confirmed your computer will boot just fine, it’s just that secure boot is effectively off.

It’s no different from like 80% of Linux distros that don’t support secure boot at all. Except for those you have to actually manually disable secure boot to boot.

But do they have the same performance per watt under real life workloads?

Intel CPUs are great at 100% idle, and 100% load. Anything less than that and they tend to fall on their face.

My 12th Gen. Intel laptop gets about 4 hours of battery life just doing Remote Desktop. Going full tilt it’s fairly efficient. At 100% idle it can be good. But a simple task that keeps the CPU lightly busy and it falls on its face.

It’s not 12-14 hours of straight working. It’s 12-14 hours without charging. Sometimes it’s just not convenient. Do you always go home from work and remember to charge your laptop? Never forgetting, consistently every day doing this?

Plus thanks to S0 standby using so much power just the laptop being in sleep is a decent battery drain.

Economies of scale. How many people actually want to buy this?

Windows power toys added a thing to control the monitor. It lets you do brightness and contrast like monitorian. But it also gives you changing inputs, changing color temperature, and a few other things.

Laptop or desktop?

Your CPU will handle 100c just fine. Intels turbo boost is designed to run the CPU as fast and hot as possible. Your CPU is designed to run at those temps for years and it will be fine.

GPUs tend to not like it as much. Smaller lower end GPUs tend to handle it better than bigger ones, but neither like running at their max temp all day.

If you’ve got a REALLY shitty CPU it’s not hard to max them out. We have some 11th Gen. i3s at work and windows update, or just installing stuff while doing anything else will peg the CPU.

It’s all the same thing. Just higher or lower end. It’s like a pentium vs a core i

Depends on what you’re going for. But the a19 pro in the iPhone 17 is a legit beast compared to a few gen old laptop.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/18267048?baseline=18268036

If you have bleeding edge hardware then Linux driver support is usually a pain in the ass. On windows there’s one, maybe 2 Windows versions. And manufacturers typically make drivers for windows first.

Got older hardware? It’s probably gonna work great on Linux.

You’ll run into CPU bottlenecks long before you get anywhere near 100% utilization. You’ll start seeing it around maybe 60% utilization on any specific core.

Why would they not want to produce for a market that has like >5x the profit margins of consumer grade stuff? They can’t make enough.

AI is taking all the supply for the latest and greatest. All the production for DDR4 based stuff probably can’t do DDR5, so why not have it keep pumping out DDR4? It takes a LONG time to build out fabs for the latest and greatest so it’s not like they can switch to DDR5 stuff overnight.

Thats just how it actually be.

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