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For starters, the mobile 5080 and 5090 are the same GB203-400 die, and the same VRAM width and speed. If the laptop design then caps the power budget equally for both variants, the main difference is price, prestige and a few more weights for you LLM. I guess that's the CMOS "knee" curve for...

And those are just US regulators and laws, which the current boss tends to replace with whatever he feels like today. I doubt he'll take no for an answer by all those other anti monopoly bodies globally out there.

DOS was much easier than that: you'd just add "/s" to your "format <drive-letter>:" and it was all done for you. RSTS and RSX-11 were pretty much the same, don't think CP/M was much of a bother, either, while installing from QIC tapes on VMS or System V.2/3 was a bit of a bother, still much...

Of course, the best jokes are the ones which are easy to believe at first. But yeah, RISC-V isn't a joke for China, even if they might still want to keep some truly domestic architectures around in case the US still manages to hijack RISC-V somehow.

I'd just wish they'd also do an entry level server part with the same architecture, e.g. for an IoT box or development machine at a NUC price. There may now be something nicely fast in terms of cores, while the rest of the RISC-V pack seems to be really anemic. I might actually own quite a few...

Now isn't that kind of fun, having the next door favorite retailer getting international attention? Oh, darn, it seems it's all about bad news, which somehow seems to travel faster than good... Quite honestly, Alternate has always been a straight shooter, fast and reliable. Been with them for...

Guys, am I the only one to think we have some time glitch here? This thread seems dated (some DST snafu?) somehow (while still relevant...)

Yes, M$ are very late to the game. AFAIK M$ has rarely ever been very successful with ground-breaking innovation, they much more of a copycat (or simply bought the VMS architects). But GNU (Hurd) and Linux used rather different approaches to that issue, only Hurd has the 20 year lead but sunk...

Mrs. Hill, you may want to change the phrase "Visualization-based Security" to "virtualization-based security". Thanks for the full belly laugh, though, and perhaps the inspiration: I really tried to imagine if there was perhaps a new IT based variant to a full code transparency security...

Let's not go into how M$ has at times forced vendors not to sell PCs without Windows pre-installed: it's about as free as sales tax, which comes included on every purchase and is listed, while your brain might omit registering it. Here in Europe quite a few laptops are still sold without...

What's the difference between M$ requiring to give you data you don't want in their hands just because you need to operate your computer or your local supermarket requiring to dance naked everytime you need groceries? This demand of theirs is quite simply absurd, immoral and if it's not illegal...

It was really meant as a joke. But that never works in posts...

SO-DIMMs work just fine on desktop boards: you just need adapters... €11 on Amazon. Adapters for the opposite directions are much harder to find or make fit. So are you saying it's all your fault because you explained wrongly?

If you want to feed outrage, there are more deserving topics, I believe. I don't know if RTX 3090, 4090 or 5090 ever sold to gamers in large numbers. Or were ever really meant to be. To me the 24GB on the 3090 vs. the 11GB on the 2080ti were a clear signal that this wasn't a gamer GPU, but a...

Thanks for the heads up! You do some of the best content on TH (and Anandtech).