Change your thermal paste. These machines (as do all modern machines) run hot, and their paste doesn’t last long if you’re a heavy user. Find a thermal paste that’s thick in particular.

The pump out effect is really drastic on these modern CPUs if you’re constantly hitting 100% load.

The only thing I’m really curious about is how far back the CPU gets throttled with the dGPU active and busy.

On both of my machines when I render a video using my GPU the CPU is still the limiting factor because of the codec I chose. On my 11th gen machine it took like 5 minutes before it was power throttled down to 25 watts. My gen 6 takes longer to power throttle and only goes down to 35 watts, but either power level that sucks. I already know the gen 7 dials back the clock speeds, but I’m mostly curious how far it goes and how quickly?

The easiest way to test this is just open a video game that’s taxing on the CPU and GPU, I don’t think the CPU throttles with light loads like if you opened furmark. Maybe benchmarking software would cause it to throttle.

Because of how important reading is

Reading itself isn’t what’s important, it’s mental stimulation that is. And more importantly stimulating different parts of the brain.

Let me know how the thermals are on that machine. I ended up paying out the ass for a refurbished gen 6 because it comes with the 4090 and a MUCH bigger heatsink. From what I saw initially in the reviews the performance is worse not just because the 100 series has worse IPC, but the machine doesn’t actually boost as much since it’s more thermally limited.

HOWEVER the machine gets a LOT better battery.

My gen 4 would get anywhere between 30 minutes and 2 hours of battery life unless I’m doing literally nothing on it. This gen 6 gets like 4 hours unless I’m heavily taxing it. But from people online I saw them say 7 hours is easily doable. And having a GPU that doesn’t use 20 watts sitting idle sure helps.

Which series? T/P or one of the economy options? The T, X, W, and later on P series have been the only models people really like.

We have a few T series at work and they’re not bad. My T14 Gen. 1 doesn’t thermal throttle at all as long as its thermal paste isn’t toast. It will run at basically its full all core boost speeds all day long. The newer 12th Gen. machines dial their clocks back a smidge under full load, but that’s because they have 2x the cores of my measly 10th Gen. machine.

Also I have a T14s AMD and that thing is a BEAST for such a small machine. 35 watts out of an AMD 6 core is no slouch for something that small. And I easily get 7+ hours of battery life out of my abusive use.

They didn’t. They did kinda change the goalpost though.

Which model did you get? The i7 or the i9? The i7 models have a minimum guaranteed TDP of 28 watts, while the i9 is at least 35. But 35 watts on such a high end CPU is dire. The Gen. 7 also killed their high end GPU options, but maybe that leaves more power headroom for the CPU.

That’s still better than my P1 Gen. 4 which throttles down to 25 watts. 25 watts on an 11th Gen. i9 is AWFUL performance.

Fully autonomous (no driver needed) or is level 3 self driving enough? (tesla straddles that line)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mario-Hirz/publication/322368082/figure/fig1/AS:587117818314753@1516991204976/Levels-of-autonomous-driving-according-to-SAE-J3016.png

If you think a horse has the environmental impact of an automobile

At what point reading my comment did you come up with this?

Ban them for a year or two.

I think valve game’s longest ban length is like 5 years.

Zero emissions? I know people find it ha ha funny, but farts legitimately contain methane and other green house gassses.

Cows for example are a large contributor of GHG

Taking a sip generally isn’t that distracting. But when the cup doesn’t want to go into the cup holder no matter what you do, and you have to look down to figure it out is.

I’m actually all for this. If you’re driving your #1 priority should be paying attention to the road, and any distraction should be avoided if possible.

The Germans had it right not having cup holders in their cars.

Lifting weights, shooting, weighing less.

I already do this, you don’t understand how boney my ass is.

The problem I have (and OP may have it as well) The chair might be comfortable for the first 3, 4, maybe 5 hours. But past that it’s a problem. Plus what’s comfortable for you ass isn’t always comfortable for your back/neck.

That was where I started before I went distro hopping on my test machine. Ubuntu had a really annoying issue where the fingerprint reader would randomly stop working waking up from sleep. Going into sleep sometimes just didn’t work, and battery life was also pretty awful.

Does the job well is my priority, not runs Linux.

I’m also not going to buy inferior hardware just to run a specific OS. Plus in a laptop you don’t really get a choice. Almost 0 workstations have AMD GPUs.

On older hardware I almost never have issues, it’s only really on the latest hardware that I run into all sorts of issues.

But even then I still run into issues decently often on older hardware. ex: On my T14 gen 1 (came out in 2020 so should be well supported) I was distro hopping and kept running into all sorts of things that annoyed me. The fingerprint reader was hit or miss which really surprised me. Some distros it didn’t show up at all, others it technically worked, but was so inaccurate it was infuriating to use, and often times would randomly stop working. S0 standby is still really fiddly and inconsistent. It sucks ass on windows, but it was even worse with almost any distro I tried. Trackpads are also still borderline unusable on linux. I know it will never come close to Mac OS which has spoiled me, but dear god does it bring back some mid 2000s PTSD. Also battery life was much worse which surprised me for a machine of that age, I figured power management would have been perfected by now.

But that was my beater machine, I don’t even bother installing it on my main machines. Mostly because of the nvidia GPUs. I have yet to try it on my old RTX 3080 laptop, but I might give it a shot since it’s currently unloved. But my biggest concerns are with S0 standby (curse you Intel), and battery life. I have never gotten good battery life on bleeding edge hardware, and from all the reading I’ve been doing lately it looks like the battery life gap has only gotten worse on brand new hardware. I know newer ryzen battery life has been pretty rough, but it’s making some good strides. The problem is that by the time the support is fully baked I’m eyeing another upgrade.

Virtual machines or servers? Hell yeah I use Linux all day long. On my computer? No thanks. I’ll still to my weird windows + mac setup.

But what if in installing Linux you have to spend even more time fixing it and getting everything to work right?

I never had any issues. The biggest thing is to have a strict sleep schedule, and have black out blinds. If you’re loosey goosey it’s going to be suffering.