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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 03:56:22AM +0100, Lynne wrote:
> Jan 10, 2024, 03:31 by michael at niedermayer.cc:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 06, 2024 at 06:42:40PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 01:56:12AM +0100, Lynne wrote:
> >> > As some of you know, my laptop died nearly 2 years ago, and
> >>
> >> Why/how did the laptop die ?
> >> is it unrepearable ?
> >>
> >
> > ping
> >
> 
> It was a 4th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon. A few drops of water got in
> between the caps lock before I noticed, by the time I did, it was too late.
> Battery circuitry is dead so it only runs on AC, frequency controller is
> dying so it runs at fixed Pentium II 350Mhz speeds, keyboard controller
> sees keys pressed all the time, touchpad is dead, USB is dead.
> The motherboard crammed essential components on the periphery
> and non-essential replaceable components like wifi and 4g modem
> right next to the CPU, so it was not great engineering.
> It did live a long life for 7 years, but only the shell remains mostly usable.
> I may not be able to put it back together as it was, since I lost some screws,
> as I kept working on it for months.

Sounds like corrosion, did you inspect it for signs of corrosion ?
I guess it would need a new mainboard. and maybe other parts
But it honestly doesnt sound like a few drops of water, you shure it was
a few drops only and only water ? ;)

I dumped a whole glass of water through my HP notebook once and after
drying it still worked just with some occasional artifacts on screen

Anyway iam not against buying you a new notebook from SPI-FFmpeg money
But you need to find some consensus with the community, its not my
decission its the decission of the community.
I do think though a cheap notebook would be aggreed to by the people
easier
in case you dont know, theres:
https://geizhals.eu/?cat=nb
you can select the features you want and it will show you whats available
for example with OLED and Zen 4 the cheapest is 799€
https://geizhals.eu/acer-swift-go-sfg14-42-r6vl-pure-silver-nx-kleeg-003-a2999043.html?hloc=at&hloc=de
or if you dont like acer
Theres a lenovo for 999 with oled and zen 4
https://geizhals.eu/lenovo-yoga-slim-6-14apu8-misty-grey-a3040258.html?hloc=at&hloc=de

or with IPS instead of OLED theres
https://geizhals.eu/lenovo-ideapad-pro-5-14aph8-arctic-grey-83amcto1wwat1-83amcto1wwde1-a3051616.html?hloc=at&hloc=de

again, i know neither so they may be bad choices, i have HP and acer notebooks here
all sub 1k €
also i dont know what you need exactly. Maybe a remote zen 4 is fine?
I did generally use my notebooks with FFmpeg by doing stuff remotely on a bigger box.
Even if you have a rather powerfull notebook, some high end desktop is going to build and
run tests much faster

PS: also dont forget to look at the screen size, a 17inch notebook and a 14inch differ in useability and
portability

thx

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