Clojurians Log v2

My wife rolled her eyes (but still laughed) and then grumbled that was such a little kid's joke... 🙂 🙂

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Snow again

mogge

Hello!

månmån¡

no snow here, but quite an æsthetically pleasing frost

Morning

👋 quite a bit of snow here this morning

Probably a long shot, but has anyone used anything from Slimbook? (https://slimbook.es/en/store/)

I thought about buying one, as I saw positive reports on Reddit etc., but it didn't have an easy way for me to use two monitors

Seems nice if you don't care about that, though

Two external monitors?

Yeah

If I remember right, the USB-C port it has is just for charging, so I could only use the HDMI connection for a monitor

You'll have to pay custom's duty now if you import from Spain

morning

In the end I went for a Thinkpad L14 which is very needs suiting

doesn't seem super powerful in the specs?

(at least compared to a bunch of the other thinkpads)

Not the one on the Lenovo website, the one with the Ryzen 4750 (also I put more RAM in)

Whenever I look at laptops, I'm frustrated by how little RAM you get for your money - you can pay quite a lot, and still only get 8GB. They seem happier to give faster processors (etc) on higher end models, than they are to give more RAM. (Although you can get more RAM too, of course)

i would happily have swapped a higher-spec processor option for a lower-spec with 32GB on my last machine, but the only refurbs around (i can't face the new-new prices of mbps) had higher-spec processors with 16GB - perhaps the issue is that most users think they want higher-spec processors, so suppliers give them to them @djm_uk ?

Yeah, that's possible. Back in the single core days people seemed to make a big thing about processor speeds. I guess these days people are mostly looking for i7/i9s, rather than looking at specific numbers

My work laptop has a 9th gen i7, and 32GB, which is nice

yeah, i've got an i9 with 16GB, but i think an i7 with 32GB would be much better. it's only £100 more expensive new, and i doubt i would ever notice the i7 vs i9 difference, whereas i notice the 16GB vs 32GB difference all the time

Morning

my current refurb is an i7 with 32GB and it's great

it's nice finally having enough RAM to have chrome and slack open at the same time 😂

Slack is especially useful in this cold weather for keeping things warm

Saves the effort of installing Gentoo

Definitely agree about the amounts RAM most machines have these days. It’s been stuck this way for years though. IIRC 4 or 5 years ago I was asking the same questions about “why can’t I get 32gb RAM yet?!” even before that it felt insane. IIRC from the last time the issue was that apple felt the extra RAM meant compromises on battery etc. Also more recently when I saw this discussed folk were saying macs have decent memory bandwidth and with SSDs they can both swap much more quickly, but also macos is supposedly good at knowing what to swap and managing memory. I suspect then that the rest of the industry is partly driven by apple setting expectations. Hopefully after the next round of apple silicon 32gb will become more common.

Yeah, it already seemed to be the case 15-20 years ago (suddenly I feel old!)

yup

pretty sure I had 8gb RAM back in 2005

4 or 5 years back was just when I got my current MBP

things did get noticeably better when macos introduced memory compression - i was really struggling with 16GB before that, and only occasionally struggling afterwards

looks like that was in 10.9 mavericks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mavericks

yeah my old work mac - which i used back in the swirrl days! - is still doing okay for most non-essential tasks on yosemite

and that's 8GB iirc so probably the mem compression as you say craig

can run slack AND docker AND youtube (just about lol)

that said, def happier with this 32GB machine

1.8k as a refurb but it really does pay for itself

my kinda PR

lol

spicy fridays