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- chem83Not sure there's a strong use case for one of these $6K laptops yet, considering you can get a mini PC running AMD Ryzen 495 or 395 with 96, 128 and 192 GB of memory for similar amount of money and connect remotely from a cheaper/smaller/more battery-efficient laptop. Microsoft also has this same chip in non-laptop form factor: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-rtx-....Coding while flying is often the use case people bring up, but the power brick these laptops come with sometimes trip the plane's power plug in coach and you can't run local AI on battery for long. Also, over time planes will get better connectivity (Starlink etc.) and that particular full-offline scenario will go away.For gaming, there are better options with dedicated GPUs like the Asus Zephyrus and similar.What am I missing?
- TIPSIOBeing forced to login to use your own hardware is one issue for sure…but separately everything about Microsoft’s login experience is pure pain.Multiple broken redirects, broken links, buttons that loop, and more just to hit a CAPTCHA AI can solve anyway.The only thing worse is for the poor soul developers who have had to login to their dev portal to setup SSO Microsoft for an app. It’s the worst I have ever seen in my life (even using Supabase that hand holds you through it).
- 74948494i4I got the HP version of this 128GB for 3.8k. I have yet to see a better deal for that ram.(Expired but there was coupon https://slickdeals.net/f/20164014-hp-omnibook-x-14-nvidia-rt...)
- bitmasher9Is a Microsoft account required to use Windows on these RTX spark laptops?Am I being too stubborn for not wanting a cloud account tied to my desktop operating system?
- jasoneckertI have a DGX Spark (Ubuntu), and when Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the RTX Spark running Windows, I thought to myself: Why would I get that instead of the DGX Spark?The OS makes a big difference for most developers, and the DGX Spark stack and experience is mature.
- thighbaugh> Doing the rationale thing to take advantage of the full capacity of my overpriced hardwareWhy would you ever run anything else on equipment like that, which doesn't make any sense to me when enterprise grade hardware that is stationary would be more powerful anyway...because you aren't taking that on BART (I don't steal but seeing that thing in your lap, might bend that rule for myself since no real chance Bart PD would care anyway) or probably ever moving it from the place you use it now in ways that a mobile rack in your garage would be any less convenient for you.Or if you felt strongly about consumer facing hardware, meaning really you pay through the nose to live in an efficiency in "SoMA" aka the Tenderloin, buy the mini-pc variant is just as easy to move but much less easy to break.
- pshcOnly 30 tok/s on Qwen 3.8 Flash Next? These days thanks to those specialized engines out there I can get ~2x that speed on a 24 GB video card with RAM offload. Thermal limits, I assume...I wonder how its performance is on dense models.
- hypferHm, what's the learning here?What challenge has been overcome?I can see that hardware was bought, and that's cool hardware and all, but consumption is rather uninspiring.I suppose it's the arm64 part? Or the review of some new hardware other people might be interested in?
- starfallgDoes anybody know how Wayland performs on these?
- LoganDark> When rumours started circulating about a laptop with over 100 GiB of RAM the GPU could accessThat was like three years ago with the release of M3, do you not count MacBooks as laptops or something? Not that you could run Linux on it back then, but you don't even mention the existence of Apple silicon at all?
- fortran77You do know you can get a Microsoft account for free? It would have saved you a lot of trouble.
- dark-starsimply creating a Microsoft account would have been far quicker and easier ;-)
- SimianScigetting a local account is simple.Windows Pro > Work or School Account > Join a Domain instead > Set password & recovery questionsThe one component here that is not present on most machines straight from the manufacturer is the presence of the Pro version. The home version of windows requires the account with increasingly limited alternatives.
- internet2000Hey just as a heads-up Microsoft accounts are free to make https://signup.live.com/