I believe Cyberpunk 2077 was a success. 35 million units and $750+ M revenue.

Haha, that’s pretty shit level software. Usually it took a little bit more effort than that to just kill it in task manager.

You misunderstand, I don’t have any allegiance to Intel/AMD or ARM or Apple.

I am interested in factual reality though. This is not about Qualcomm versus AMD or whatever. It’s common sense. If you have a use case (e.g. x265 encode or god forbid an AV1 encode) that takes many hours, you laptop is going to suffer due to cooling issue. This is even true for an ARM laptop versus an ARM desktop.

I think the results you mention back up what I said?

So you’re saying that throttling after 5 min is not an issue with MT (or even ST) workloads?

I would be happy to be proven wrong (I am not kidding), but I would need solid proof from a 3rd party.

No offence, but random claims online is not how it works.

Mind you, I am not saying you or your friend are lying. There are likely other factors at play.

I thought you said your friend used applications not benchmarks. You know something like x265 encoding, AI video upscaling, mining XMR (CPU based crypto) or complex single-thread dependent strategy games; I say this as someone involved in computers for hobbies and leisure, not in a professional manner.

No offence, but what you are saying does not sound convincing in the least.

A high level X Elite GB6 ST/MT score is around 2,800 ST and 14,300 MT.

A high level 5950X GB6 ST/MT score is around 2,400 ST and 14,300 MT.

And this is a short GB benchmark (i.e. not sustained for hours on end).

You’re saying if I give you a complex (lots of water, storms, seas) 2+ hour BD source to encode into x265, your friend’s X Elite laptops won’t start to throttle in ~5 min and it will complete it in the same time as your 5950X? You’ll have to provide proof.

But he’s been using it for a while now and says everything works just fine. Replacing a big box workstation with a thin and light notebook and have it perform better is pretty wild.

Some specifics would be interesting. What applications were being used on the big box workstation?

But I do have a result screenshotted of 27.9 in Speedometer 3.0

Not aware of Speedometer 3.0, this does seem like a very solid result, but what does it show? Do you have any context on it? This is the first time I’ve encountered this particular benchmarks, would be interesting to hear about what it means.

I am not saying x86 apps don’t work (well some don’t work at all), but emulated apps usually have a bunch of strange bugs or issues like the provider refusing to honour commercial support when using the application on WoA. Here is one example:

Adobe Acrobat and Reader work on Windows on ARM (Windows 10/11) primarily via 32-bit (x86) emulation, with native ARM64 support actively in development. While usable, it may exhibit slower performance, lack PDF thumbnail previews, and have limitations with Outlook integration

I have other examples of applications that I use. For whatever reason, this piece often gets ignored when discussions about WoA come up.

And I am ignoring thing like line-of-business apps, regional commercial applications (local enterprise accounting software is not going support WoA) and consumer applications (less common than enterprise).

Not to mention issues like lower re-sale value, higher cost of repair and generally a pricier and much less developed support ecosystem. This is a big deal if you live in a developing country (or you have below median income in a place like the US).

you often see them on discount for $600 as opposed to the $1200+

The discount reflects the low level of demand.

The fact of the matter is that the current crop of X Elite devices are worse in every way relative to comparable x86 devices. This might change with Nvidia backed WoA devices, but I have a feeling they’ll be more focused on selling ML enterprise GPU than being fully committed to fighting it out in the relatively low margin consumer sector.

Valve’s compatibility layer for ARM making games work

I thought this was for Linux not WoA?

Sure, but Qualcomm is not Apple and they sell to multiple OEMs.

What’s the application and what are the benchmarks? ST? MT? What is the high level profile of the use case/application?

X Elite is generally very weak in most benchmark. The originally released Geekbench 6 results were never achieved by any devices available to consumers (because they were run on a custom cooled setup with a version of Linux optimized for running that benchmark on X Elite).

garbage marketing, overpriced laptops, and bad compatibility layer

I don’t believe any of this has been fixed, but we’ll see what happens.

I somehow doubt this will be the case.

If you don’t care about gaming (or heavy duty desktop applications), you might as well get a Chromebook or a Mac (depending on your budget).

Haven’t watched this particular YT, but from other video and text reviews that I have watched/read, it’s basically a relatively generic vampire themed action-adventure. It’s not an RPG in the least, some of the RPG-lite elements look comically dumb.

Cheers!

I am not a fan of American attitudes to what is marketed as free speech, but this does seem extreme.

Although I can see the point of this outside of corporate type stuff. For an individual, one could argue it makes sense. For a corporate entity (or even a private business), no way.

More post-apocalytic b-movie than Machete style pulp, but sure.

I am open to alternative enterpretations, but not the super low effort social critique (that becomes almost counter productive) and the weak character writing.

Very cool! )))

The political messaging was comically weak; almost makes one wonder if there is some self-censorship going on, although it’s much more likely that they just don’t give a fuck. It’s like in the Alien: Earth show with the contrived presentation of the billionaire bro. It is so stupid. Sometimes subtlety works a lot better in highlighting a message.

I felt that it was too well packaged and slick.

And one character became that life, another grew up that life, while another is just now learning that life.

This is one example. It feels like they wanted broad coverage by trying to include a character that appeals to different elements of the market. I would prefer something a bit less by the book.

Something crazy, more fucked up, but also with satirical comedy (but not in the obvious way). More inspiration from Italian 80s post-apocalyptic movies and Albert Pyun.

• 1990: The Bronx Warriors
• Rats: Night of Terror
• Warriors of the Wasteland
• 2019: After the Fall of New York

Just look at the trailer for 2019: After the Fall of New York.

As I said, I don’t mind people loving the show. I expected it to be not for me and that’s fine.

My issue is with people saying that you can’t enjoy New Vegas and dislike the show.

Not at all. I never mentioned anything about the show needing to be exactly like the game.

If anything I was referring to the general aesthetic, world building and tone of the presentation.

I would be fine with a loose adaption as long as it wasn’t generic and the writing wasn’t primitive.

But none of them can articulate why or what is getting ruined.

That’s not true at all. I provided some context around why I think the show is not interesting:

[A lack of] an independent DIY spirit, a b-movie aesthetic, lots of gore and guts, but also subtlety and nuance.

I also didn’t mention anything about the show ruining anything. I was merely explaining why I like New Vegas and I find the show to be subpar.

Look at the trailers for Turbo Kid and Neon City:

• Turbo Kid
• Neon City

Does this look anything remotely like the Fallout show?

And this is only the aesthetics and atmosphere. I haven’t really touched upon other areas.

I am not saying you or anyone else can’t enjoy the show, but it’s not unreasonable for someone who enjoys New Vegas to not like the show. That’s all I am saying.

It’s possible to love New Vegas the game, but not the show. It’s a matter of what you’re looking for.

I would be interested in a series that takes inspiration from the setting, atmosphere and spirit of productions like A Boy and his Dog, Neon City, Mad Max 2, works by Albert Pyun (Radioactive Dreams, Cyborg, Knights, Omega Doom) and Italian 80s post-apocalyptic movies (e.g. 2019: After the Fall of New York) if we are talking about older movies.

For newer productions, the new Mad Max films, Turbo Kid, The Divide also reflect what I would expect from a Fallout series.

An independent DIY spirit, a b-movie aesthetic, lots of gore and guts, but also subtlety and nuance.

That’s clearly not what the show is aiming for.

John Frusciante from RHCP likes making jungle/dnb?

My mind is blown!

I actually checkout his album on Bandcamp, it’s pretty good.