Remix OS Singularity
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@scottalanmiller said in Remix OS Singularity:
@StuartJordan said in Remix OS Singularity:
I think I will always use a desktop PC, although I am thinking about getting a Intel NUC once I have got a new NAS for home, don't you think towers just look out of place in the modern home??
Depends. If you are in IT, then tower computers, wires across the floor, access points on a kitchen table and so forth are all crazy and totally out of place. If you are the typical non-technical user, though, oddly having exposed everything and "tech in your face" is the norm. I've never understood this, but everyone I know that is really into IT tends to like to have their systems be invisible (but powerful) and everyone who dislikes computers and has no interest in them is happy to have their house strewn with exposed cables and networking equipment sitting in family use areas!
Seems it should be the opposite, doesn't it?
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@StuartJordan said in Remix OS Singularity:
I think I will always use a desktop PC, although I am thinking about getting a Intel NUC once I have got a new NAS for home, don't you think towers just look out of place in the modern home??
Depends - are you a power gamer? If yes, then you probably need a tower to house your GPUs, if you're not, then go for the NUC!
I purchased 2 NUC style machines from HP a few years ago for my office and will continue to do so for my locations that don't require cd/DVD access.
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Someone remind me to post details about how f***ing crazy people are in this thread
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@dafyre said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Mine only weighs 9.9 lbs, thank you very much.
ROFLOL!
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@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
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@JaredBusch said in Remix OS Singularity:
Someone remind me to post details about how f***ing crazy people are in this thread
This is your reminder.
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@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
Sure - today - but look at Scott. He's a highly mobile user, who was using a 10+ year old computer do his work. As long as he can get internet and remote access to things, his power requirements are way less than that of a phone.
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@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
If it is a laptop, yes. Because if it is a laptop, it's function is to be portable. Otherwise, a desktop would have been better.
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@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@JaredBusch said in Remix OS Singularity:
Someone remind me to post details about how f***ing crazy people are in this thread
This is your reminder.
Remind me again later when I'm not driving thanks
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@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
Sure - today - but look at Scott. He's a highly mobile user, who was using a 10+ year old computer do his work. As long as he can get internet and remote access to things, his power requirements are way less than that of a phone.
But you're mixing up the use cases of the laptops. My laptop is portable enough for me. Me lugging 10 lbs, not a big deal.
If you're constantly moving around, you'd get a light weight performance laptop. Not a gaming rig on steroids (like me)
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@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
Sure - today - but look at Scott. He's a highly mobile user, who was using a 10+ year old computer do his work. As long as he can get internet and remote access to things, his power requirements are way less than that of a phone.
That's true (except for my gaming) - I could get by with a good phone. Memory is an issue, though. Phones have big CPU to small RAM ratios compared to my desktops, even my old one. Desktops lean towards big RAM and small CPU, which is what is useful for me.
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@JaredBusch said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@JaredBusch said in Remix OS Singularity:
Someone remind me to post details about how f***ing crazy people are in this thread
This is your reminder.
Remind me again later when I'm not driving thanks
Will do.
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To be really useful, I think that I'd need a phone with something like an NVidia X1 processor and 8GB of RAM. I don't need loads of CPU, but I do need RAM to keep loads of windows open and responsive. Not sure if phones are there yet. But in a few years they could easily be.
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@scottalanmiller said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
Sure - today - but look at Scott. He's a highly mobile user, who was using a 10+ year old computer do his work. As long as he can get internet and remote access to things, his power requirements are way less than that of a phone.
That's true (except for my gaming) - I could get by with a good phone. Memory is an issue, though. Phones have big CPU to small RAM ratios compared to my desktops, even my old one. Desktops lean towards big RAM and small CPU, which is what is useful for me.
For WORK though... you could work from your phone if you had no other option... (JuiceSSH on android is great -- even from my phone!)... The reason for the laptop would be faster / more accurate typing and larger screen.
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@scottalanmiller said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
Sure - today - but look at Scott. He's a highly mobile user, who was using a 10+ year old computer do his work. As long as he can get internet and remote access to things, his power requirements are way less than that of a phone.
That's true (except for my gaming) - I could get by with a good phone. Memory is an issue, though. Phones have big CPU to small RAM ratios compared to my desktops, even my old one. Desktops lean towards big RAM and small CPU, which is what is useful for me.
As the use cases continue to change, I'm sure we'll see more RAM appear in phones or whatever we end up calling the smaller portable computers...
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@dafyre said in Remix OS Singularity:
@scottalanmiller said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
@Dashrender said in Remix OS Singularity:
@DustinB3403 said in Remix OS Singularity:
I've got a 17" display on my laptop.
And my laptop will blow any phone off of the planet in performance.
yeah and it weighs 10 lbs.
Does it really matter how much it weighs if it's sitting on a table or desk?
Even the asus ultrabooks would blow any phone away in performance, and they come with nice size displays as well. Something like 16" displays
Sure - today - but look at Scott. He's a highly mobile user, who was using a 10+ year old computer do his work. As long as he can get internet and remote access to things, his power requirements are way less than that of a phone.
That's true (except for my gaming) - I could get by with a good phone. Memory is an issue, though. Phones have big CPU to small RAM ratios compared to my desktops, even my old one. Desktops lean towards big RAM and small CPU, which is what is useful for me.
For WORK though... you could work from your phone if you had no other option... (JuiceSSH on android is great -- even from my phone!)... The reason for the laptop would be faster / more accurate typing and larger screen.
That wasn't my point - my point was simply about the amount of power that Scott needs is provided in a phone already - but he then pointed out that he needs more RAM.
In any case, the need/massive desire for a larger keyboard and display is there.
Damn we are down a weird rabbit hole.. time to eject.
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If I had a phone with 8GB of RAM and a nice desk setup, I could totally work from it. That part isn't bad. One of my biggest concerns personally would be battery management of a phone used that way. I'm very critical of battery management because of how I live so adding anything to my plate that takes away my ability to control that is a negative.
I'm trying to picture working in this way, though. I'm constantly grabbing my phone and doing things with it and leaving my desk. But I don't want my desktop stuff to be interrupted. Having those as separate functions seems useful. I realize that that's a power user thing, but that's important.
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I don't need gaming specs, my computer is used for work only, I have dual AOC monitors and like them more then using a laptop screen, I only use a laptop when visiting sites to setup routers etc.
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But I really think that the intended use case here is very, very much the grandmas of the world. They would like something like a laptop at home once in a while, have no power user tasks and mostly just need a phone. This could let them "scale up" once in a while when needed and have it "go away" the rest of the time.
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What I think is the real use case is not people at a desk, but casual users at home who get an adapter to plug into a television screen and use a wireless bluetooth keyboard and sit on the couch. It turns the TV into a low end computer without needing to buy new devices.
