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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    Intel has been and still is playing the same game basically since 8th generation: Release a new CPU every year with high enough power...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    There aren't many comparable benchmarks published for the 8840U yet, but if it's 15% faster per P core than 155H and the pricing is...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Ryzen.
    Minisforum is shipping a Ryzen 7 8840U tablet in China, available now. 8c/16t, 3.3 - 5.1GHz Zen5 CPU, 28W TDP, Radeon 780M graphics...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    I'm still weighing my options since I don't particularly want to buy components for Aliexpress. The idea would be a local backup system...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    KVMs don't change all that much and new or oddball keys don't impact how they work. Copilot seems to be one of those things like...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    I just started using this thing specifically because I can bind a bunch of nonsense in my content creation applications to it. I have a...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Microsoft is changing the PC keyboard again. We're all going to have a Copilot key soon. I'm sure that will be great the very instant I...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    Ideally, everything should be ECC. If you're on DDR5, it is. I've also long-since learned that if an OEM says their platform does...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    I was just about to say that as far as I know, nobody is selling the N305 as a barebones motherboard but no, there it is on AliExpress...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Home NAS.
    Something mildly obnoxious: Adler Lake Celerons are actually pretty respectable CPUs with extremely low wattage and it's pretty easy to...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    iGPUs are always going to be about getting to some minimal level of capability, but for my purposes, anything that has the Codec feature...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    The information may simply not exist, especially if you're zeroed in on DxO or Topaz as the tools you might be concerned with. The only...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    If I'm using Resolve Studio, the correct answer right now is either an Intel CPU with an iGPU + a high end Radeon, or a Threadripper...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    It's application specific. For Resolve, AMD is actually preferable to nVidia overall, but even that depends on assumptions in what is...
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    Mercutio replied to the thread Video Cards.
    Macs aren't better for video. They are well optimized and power efficient for it, but so is a Snapdragon 8 gen 3. I'm sure Apple...
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