Sir Beregond

Oh, more interforum competition, I like it!

The store has its own, yes, which are the ones you screenshot. Fluxmaven did his own run of stickers for one of the folding contests a while back before the merch store was a thing. Used them for prizes and such.

Yeah I am in this same boat after selling mine off. Crypto is too volatile and I don't really believe in it's premise anymore like I maybe once did a long time ago. Money is always centralized somewhere. Oh trust me, tech stocks are part of my investment portfolios. Things have been doing very well lately. My 401k is the same way. I choose all the funds that I want as part of its portfolio and on the stock side of things, I'm definitely in all those as well. If I were to just buy individual company stocks again, I definitely agree that Microsoft, AMD, and Nvidia make a ton of sense similar to how Amazon and Apple have been in the past. While there certainly can and probably will be a bubble of sort as eventually everyone and their mother getting into AI has to find a breaking point somewhere at which point the serious guys that can do anything with it, will continue to do so, meanwhile the rest will probably somewhat be like the dot com bubble and crypto/blockchain, but like those...hasn't gone away. Obviously we all still use the internet, and crypto hasn't gone anywhere. For better or worse, AI is here to stay.

Yeah I got into crypto in 2017 with about $1200 total and sold it off in 2021 for about $5500. But that was my only foray into it. Forgot what the taxes were on that, but wasn't bad. Stocks at this point I have a few but not much. Most of my investments are in other avenues as opposed to individual stocks.

Yeah I didn't really know how to buy or mine Bitcoin in 2009, 2010, and I didn't really know how to buy stocks in 2012. Things I regret to this day.

Makes sense. As far as raster goes, you basically on average have the 2nd fastest gaming card in the world. Its faster than the more expensive 4080 for raster.

Makes sense and telling they didn't drop to $699. It's telling on Nvidia's end that there probably won't be a lot of MSRP models 4070 Supers so that $599 will probably be more like $650, and same for the 4070 Ti Super at $799, bet it will be more like $849. So AMD clearly thinks $749 is sufficient and all the naysayers online in places like Reddit saying they needed deep cuts, probably not true. AMD doesn't seem overly worried and this is just more or less confirming street pricing of the 7900 XT as the new MSRP.

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That's interesting, but it brings up another thought I had. Maybe we should just be moving away from ATX standard. Take a look at how a regular ATX orients DIMMS against natural airflow where some one off motherboards like EVGA Dark and Classified series rotated the socket and DIMMS to a better orientation for airflow. And of course you have other standards like BTX that just never took off. I think it would be interesting to see ATX evolve finally as we have moved towards things like m.2 drives, single GPUs, and now looking at how memory can evolve on desktop. Maybe there's a better way to do things than ATX form factor and motherboard layout.

I'm a big fan of mint tea. How is that one?

God, no wonder Voyager comes back as V'Ger in the 23rd century.

Extremely similar to Turing Super refresh then. 2060 and 2060 Super stayed around in tandem while 2060 Super was single digital percentage slower than the original 2070. Meanwhile the 2070 Super was single digit percentages slower than the 2080 and the original 2070 was EOL'd. And then the 2080 also got EOL'd for the 2080 Super which was marginally faster as the fully unlocked TU104 chip. Almost like this should have been your original lineup Nvidia Will be interesting to see where AIB card prices end up landing on average for this.

I still don't like the fact that they are taking away my nanometers. I mean Pentium 4 started out with 180nm and then towards the end was all the way down to 65nm. That is quite the rip off! I hear they are barely giving you 10nm these days!

I get what both of you are saying, I think you are too hyper-focused on t-shirts that you are missing what Jan is saying. T-shirts are one thing. All @iamjanco was saying is that t-shirts as part of the whole branding and marketing strategy should have a cohesive design strategy starting out. Part of what makes a brand identifiable is that you can see a logo + a color theme and immediately know what it is. Cohesive with the rest of the branding being done and the other marketing tactics that will also be using EHW designs in its efforts makes sense here. And then its usually the more creative design ideas that maybe break a bit from core branding/design cues then become the one off t-shirts as your brand establishes. Anyway I don't disagree that you can obviously have more than 1 t-shirt design. Just keep them fairly consistent in theming starting out.

Podcast sounds interesting. I can be the resident "back in my day, a candy bar graphics cards cost a nickel!" guy. I'm kidding, I would love to participate though. Another things video could be used for is tech news like our news section if we could make it interesting.

Fair, that's not my area of work so I have no insight into that. We use AWS in my department. Other departments in our org are Azure or GCP, but we are probably at the bleeding edge compared to where those orgs are at and AWS has worked great for us. You are right in it costing an arm and a leg though. See that's another part I don't really see is licensing. When I wanted a premium Power Automate license so I could use the ServiceNow integration, we just pinged a group to handle that. Anyway, I don't at all disagree with the notion we should have comparable competitors. We just umm...don't. When we do, I'm all for checking that out.

No business in their right mind would ever start moving to Google Cloud in this day and age when AWS and Azure are established and Google throws around "if we don't get the same number of customers, we are just going to shut down cloud services". Yeah I'm sure that's inspire a lot of confidence and bring in tons of business customers. Now I'd say the likelihood of that happening is clearly very low, but it doesn't matter. In my opinion, Google can't be taken seriously while they are throwing around that kind of talk. Plus Google has an established history at this point of not a lot of "stick with it-ness" to a lot of their product offerings. That's not good for business. As for other business apps, I gotta say if there was a time where Slack was vastly better than Teams, at this stage that's not even close to true anymore and since our enterprise uses both I can say Slack is almost ripping off design cues from Teams these days. What else...office software? Office365? We've been using the hell out of Power Automate this year, it's been fantastic for us automating (albeit, can be a bit janky to setup), but integrates extremely well with Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, etc. Honestly I don't have any complaints aside from the time services go down.

Most of the rest of the company is on Windows machines. Our department was a couple of startups that got bought like 6+ years ago and we still use Macbooks which I'd guess came from the startup days. I honestly don't know cost difference though as my understanding is that the enterprise leases machines vs buying them. This is like my 3rd refresh since I started 4 years ago. Yes I agree now that we've seen 3 gens of Apple silicon that it seems most improvements are coming from TSMC process node improvements. I think Apple silicon is certainly good for their MacBook products, but otherwise don't seem to be improving much on their own since initial release. As for the rest of your points, I agree wholeheartedly. Microsoft has really done a good job of branching their business in to long-term strategic revenue streams.

Yeah, well in many respects Apple really is just a fandom/fashion accessory. The whole ridiculousness around blue/green bubbles comes to mind, and there's your average Apple user. They've certainly managed to build a huge business on this, but eventually you reach a point where what else is there to do. Has the iPhone drastically changed much or provided anything meaningfully innovative in recent years? No. Apple Silicon sure helped Macbook, but aside from your existing demographics of Macbook users, is there anything else to draw people in? Microsoft on the other hand has sufficiently diversified their business into multiple revenue streams. I obviously don't agree with everything Microsoft is doing on Windows side of the house, but it cannot be denied that they are certainly making good business choices with AI, cloud, and other things.

I'm not sure why this old thread popped up on the side, but I can tell you this. At work my old 2019 Intel MacBook which I would describe as a complete piece of garbage with PC laptop levels of bad battery life was replaced with an M1 Pro based MacBook Pro in December and I love this laptop. I literally used it for an 8 hour day and the battery had only gone down to 60%. My old Intel one, even when new, barely lasted a couple hours before having to find a plug. I move around the house a lot for where I work (I work from home) and sometimes I work outside the house, so it's nice not having to be tied down to a cord. In terms of calling it "wasted"...I'd say that's not really true. I work for a fortune 10 enterprise and our department uses nothing but Macbooks to code/develop, etc. They are perfectly functional machines that everyone here would say work much better than their previous Intel i9 based Macbooks which would just immediately throttle and performed worse than i7 based models. Of course that was just Apple's stupid design with no real thermal solution for a hot chip like an i9. The M1's are definitely better that way. If you say well they aren't gaming laptops, well...yeah. It's Apple. Anyway, my team are not particularly power users by any stretch like the development teams are, i.e. I'm not really running apps as most of what I work on is in Outlook, Teams, web Office 365, or web based CI/CD tools. Given that though, it is nice running all day on battery and not having to even look at the icon to see if I am running out of juice. EDIT: And given that, my job would obviously be perfectly fine on a Windows machine too. I don't really care which. The iOS app devs probably like the Macs though would be my guess.

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@The Pook is right. Somehow everything is upside down in this picture. Man I haven't had Papa Murphy's in probably a decade. How was it?

You're right. I didn't even notice they used 580 on this meme. Oops.

What's funny is that it was actually ATI that started the war of the big dies that led to G80 and the 8800 GTX. Within context of the general die sizes of the era, they completely upset Nvidia with the R300 (which was the legendary 9700 Pro and later derivatives) as their way to completely dethrone Nvidia who was winning the performance crown at the time and Nvidia just kept increasing die sizes after to win until ATI and later AMD couldn't keep up with big die strategy. 2900 XT was a complete flop for them. And of course Nvidia just kept pushing it, though AMD still pushed it hard with 4870 and 5870 against the big Nvidia dies and did very well except for where it mattered...sales and profit. And who can forget:

Took a look at TPU. 7900 XTX is full Navi 31, 7900 XT is cut-down Navi 31. 7800 XT is full Navi 32, the next die down. There is a 7900 GRE that is a further cut-down of Navi 31 from what the 7900 XT is. That seems to suggest that there could be room for a 7800 XTX or whatever based on Navi 31, but I guess that would also depend on yields. If their yields are too good they might not want to release another cut-down Navi 31 product if the 7900 XT and 7900 XTX are sufficiently selling supply of said dies and their yields are too good to justify a further cut-down SKU. With the 7800 XT being full Navi 32, there is no room with that die for a higher SKU. That said I definitely agree there is plenty of gap between the two products to support something in between. I just don't think they'll do it. Credit where credit is due though. At least they didn't sandbag on cards with full dies like Nvidia tends to do.