Never gave a rat's ass about a computer being for a 'business' 'creative' or 'student' audience. Just check the specs and numbers
Never gave a rat's ass about a computer being for a 'business' 'creative' or 'student' audience. Just check the specs and numbers
Hardware design and overall build quailty is a lot better than consumer models which is why you'd care ;-)Never gave a rat's ass about a computer being for a 'business' 'creative' or 'student' audience. Just check the specs and numbers
That used to be the case for cheaper Windows laptops back before 2010. But even back then, there were some minimum specs to look for: an i5 or better. "Intended Audience" is just a marketing gimmick to sell crappy hardware. But install Linux or BSD on that cheap and crappy hardware - and not only you squeeze more juice out of the hardware, it's also easier to understand why "Intended Audience" is nothing more than marketing nonsense.
just the specific post, not a PC vs MAC pissing contest
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You didn't specify Wifi 6 or BT 5.2 in your post. Perhaps you should have been more specific instead of a blanket "FreeBSD won't work, don't waste your time" statement.
Most of my "gaming grade hardware" use cases are Blender and OpenSCAD - so I definitely need a decent graphics card - I'd also like to be able to virtualize Windows for sake of some Steam games. I'm considering doing vSphere for the base and FreeBSD, Windows, Linux on top of that so they can run in parallel, but I've heard you can bans for a lot of Steam games running them in Windows on a vSphere install so that would kind of defeat the purpose there. I really want to avoid Windows for the root OS on the machine, but also need to get the video card more or less as a 1:1 translation into any virtualized layers.
I think the bans would apply to having a truckload of connections from a single IP address... read their rules carefully.
Laptops, even gaming-grade stuff, are not the best for virtualizing. Also, for a VM, you'd have to allow it to have access to a portion of your hardware resources. This directly leads to the question of whether it makes more sense to buy two machines with n-level specs or one machine with 2n-level specs, because in either case, you'll blow about the same amount of money.
If you were actually virtualizing multiple boxes at once sure, but my use case is more switching between OS's without wanting to reboot and select at bios with that 2-3 minute hit to productivity each time.
Intel pioneered backdoored chips, so it stands to reason that even if AMD has backdoors in theirs, Intel's are the most advanced and hard to subvert backdoors.
If you want to switch between OS'es without rebooting, then virtualization is the way to go. But, laptops come at best with 17-inch screens. For productive use of a VM, you do need more screen real estate than that. One way around that is to invest in a couple 32-inch monitors that you can connect to your laptop as external displays. It's not impossible to get external displays going under FreeBSD, but getting them to behave predictably is usually a pain.
I suppose I did a "60" project a while back.
YMMV, but I wouldn't gamble on that. Even if you do your homework and find a brand-new model from a big-name vendor, and the spec sheet supposedly indicates that a recent
-RELEASE version of FreeBSD should be supported - it can take a while to set the hardware up to be productive. And, you're more likely than not to stumble into details that may prove to be deal-breakers. For example, N-Key keyboard is a standard feature on newest Asus laptops - but doesn't work under FreeBSD.