So I got the Minisforum DEG2 yesterday, and 1000w power supply for less than this by about $125.

Except the DEG2 also has 2.5Gb Ethernet, 2x slots for additional m2 drives, 2x built in USB A (3.0) and 2x USB 4.0 Type 2, as well as OcuLink.

I really like UGreen products...I have a NAS and several hubs, a dock, cables, etc. But I struggle to see this one as a good value. The more UGreen products I see now, the more I think they've gotten a little too far away from the "good product for good value" company that attracted me to them in the first place. Same with Anker.

I recall reading that Nova Lake is ALL on Intels own 18a node.

While these are very different APU's, IMHO the Intel offering scores the win for power efficiency and likely run/game time on battery power and the AMD offering win's for raw performance.

Quote from: Care factor on Today at 00:00:55It's almost impossible to navigate through social circles or settings without being on it in this day age. Even if you try to actively avoid it, the sad reality is you've a friend, loved one, associate/colleagues that do and are part of some kind of group chat. If you're not part of this group chat, people look at you like you're the odd one out.

These lawsuits can keep coming, doubt it's going to move a needle on their 3+ billion user base. It's just too embedded / entrenched within the core fabric of society now.

If you're the odd one out because your social group uses Meta products and you don't, you probably need to reevaluate whether you're hangin' with the right crowd or not.

There's nothing on social media worth my attention. It's mostly just an addiction anyway. The point of social media, much like television, is to put ads in your face. They say the best form of advertisement is word of mouth. This is because people trust those in their social group more than they do paid actors and funny pizza puns.

Social media was designed around this concept. Sure you have the addition of actual ads on the page, I think; I haven't been on social media in a very long time, but a lot of what people share is where they're dining out, what shoes they just bought, what tourist trap they visited on vacation.

Plus, when people follow a movie star, who's getting paid to wear certain clothes and use certain headphones, they tend to feel like they're friends with this person. They feel as though the paid product spokesperson is a member of their social group thereby elevating their paid product advice to word of mouth advertisement.

The addiction comes from the "likes." Likes and shares are a form of validation for people who need reassurance that their existence is worthwhile. Facebook is really more of an opium den where people spend their time getting high on likes and shares.

In reality the interactions on social media are shallow, one dimentional at their best. People don't sign into Facebook to have deep meaningful existential discussions. They sign in to share pictures of their toddler who they're really just exploiting for what, quite frankly, amounts to a drug addiction.

These really aren't people with which you should be spending a whole lot of time. I very highly recommend you break the addiction and remove negative influences from your life to the best of your ability.

Outside of that, I agree; this lawsuit will accomplish nothing. The best you'll see of this is a class action lawsuit that Meta will drag out for seven years only to payout twenty bucks to each recipient.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody...

Quote from: Good question on Yesterday at 20:59:56

QuoteIt'll be interesting to see how AMD's eventual successor to the Radeon 890M can compare against the super-efficient Panther Lake iGPU series.

Good question, because if Intel is using TSMC' 3N node for its iGPU chiplet and AMD for its APU (which contains the 890M iGPU) is using TSMC 4N, then Intel's power efficiency advantage should only be ~30% (4N to 3N -> 1 node power efficiency advantage), but the B390 is over 60% more power efficient (at a 25W power limit) and this is a 2 nodes advantage.

CP2077: 2560x1440 Ultra Preset (FSR off):
8060S is 71% faster, but power consumption was twice, did you confirm?

Test power efficiency for CP2077 Overdrive preset (yes, the 390B is going to be too weak for this preset). Maybe it could run Overdrive at 720p?

LH, yes, Strix Halo it a big, 256-bit wide, APU. While Panther Lake is 128-bit wide. This's almost half the bandwidth (9600 MT/s (PL) vs 8000 MT/s (SH)).

Manufacturing nodes are pretty much pointless to bemoan at this point. Could X product be more efficient at Y node? Of course. But it's basically a pointless hypothetical unless such a product is actually launched, at which point its competitors would likely have shifted nodes too. And in all honesty, even a "2 node advantage" (across competing fabs makes a direct comparison harder too) is only going to net 15-20% improved perf/watt at today's node sizes. This isn't like the giant leaps in perf/watt we used to get 20 years ago when going from 130nm to 90nm to 65nm, for example.

Basically, it's all about what products are actually delivered. The fact that AMD COULD sell [newer product] at [better node] in some amount of time doesn't change the fact that Intel is selling Panther Lake at its node, today.