[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: AVX512-capable laptop

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le keskiviikkona 3. tammikuuta 2024, 2.56.12 EET Lynne a écrit :
> As some of you know, my laptop died nearly 2 years ago, and
> I've been working on a desktop machine, which is currently a Zen 3.
> AVX512 has become more popular in the meantime, with Zen 4
> and future AMD CPUs shipping with it, but currently, we have very
> little AVX512.

Frankly, generally speaking, I don't think it makes sense to buy laptops for 
development *unless* desktop systems are not an option.

And here, a desktop system is not only an option, but it is the technically 
better and already purchased option. A desktop is cheaper, more faster, more 
serviceable and more incrementally upgradeable. More prosaically a desktop 
system is much more suitable to occupational well-being - laptops are awfully 
inadequate in terms of ergonomy, unless they are docked, at which point they 
become expensive under-provisioned desktops.

A laptop would of course be necessary whilst spending extended periods of your 
time away from home. But if so, that would be a discretionary choice of life 
style choice. There is nothing wrong with doing that per se, but I really 
don't think that an open-source foundation should be addressing discretionary 
life style choices.

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