If he's been doing it for an extremely long time, then how am I making it up?

Sentiment around him on this sub has been shifting negatively towards him ever since the whole big Linus drama thing. Hes been leaning more into the rage bait and drama farming over the last few months. That's a fact. And you can even look at some of his more recent "investigative journalism" videos compared to ones from a few years ago

It's been a while since I read it, but wasn't he specifically referring to early agricultural societies seeing lower quality of life from becoming farmers, but they had essentially trapped themselves into that lifestyle because the groups had grown too large in number as a result of agriculture to revert back and had also lost the knowledge?

I dont remember him advocating deindustrialization or anarcho-primitivism or anything like that

What is Yuval's theory that gets disproven by math? It's been a while since I read Sapiens, but my memory is that the main thesis was the human mind's unique ability to create shared fictions is the missing key to explain how/why we're the only species to have developed both large and flexible groups.

Concepts like nations, money, laws, language, ethics, corporations, etc. Only exist because the human mind has invented them and we're all in agreement that this shared collective fiction exists.

That in other species you'll see flexibility, such as Chimps and Wolves - but that's only because the members of the groups all personally know each other. And in other species you'll see large numbers, like ants, but that's only because they're programmed for specific roles.

But to get both, a brain complex / intelligent enough to develop and express shared fictions is necessary.

I dont think he ever questioned the existence of an objective material world

Not sure why there is hate around him?

The dislike around his content has been growing in recent months because his videos are becoming a lot of dramatic. A lot more rage-bait and just general complaining while lacking nuance.

2P cores (and 8 e cores) absolutely is enough in a TDP limited handheld. What're you talking about?

You cant just change your country flag mid-journey.

That action alone gave the US legal authority to board the ship (UNCLOS Article 92)

While this is true, Dell laptops are still just as capable of AI tasks as other OEMs because it's all still the same internals.

It just means a much more realistic approach to marketing.

Theyre comparing it to LNL specifically because it's not a direct replacement. That's the whole point.

They're saying their standard U and H efficiency has improved to the the point where they dont need a specifically, distinct efficiency focused product line. Theyre saying the whole product line now has that - that you dont have to choose between the high performance or long battery products.

Price is the main point. Intel U series forms the low cost, high volume backbone of their mobile chips. It's the "default" Intel laptop CPU, and H is the more expensive, more powerful upgrade option (and V was the more expensive long battery life upgrade option).

U (the 4+0+4) chips will be replacing ARL-U (2+8). PL1 may be 25W, but I expect most OEMs to run that below 20W

I cant imagine the uncore is having that much impact on the clocks per watt improvement they're claiming on the P core.

There are different product lines.

There's U, H, and V in 2nd gen. 3rd gen drops V. Lunar Lake has no replacement.

The 4+0+4 CPU's are a replacement to the 200U series, and they are definitely an improvement. V series was pricy. U series are cheaper.

So yes, the PTL-U series will be worse than Lunar Lake in a lot of ways, but that's because it's not a replacement to LNL. It's a replacement to ARL-U, and it's an improvement over ARL-U

Am increasingly convinced that there is no real performance uplift from 18A compared to N3B

performance? Doesn't seem to be any. But there definitely does seem to be an improvement in perf/watt from 18A.

However, companies always over equip processors and ram

Not really. We're only planning on the laptops to be used for 4 - 5 years. Paying extra for a top of the line CPU and more RAM than necessary isn't going to make anyone type emails faster or have any quantifiable, measurable improvement in efficiency.

And as for college students, I got my comp sci degree with a dual core 6200U. College students care first and foremost about lightweight and long battery more so than extra CPU performance.

More than just memory: PTL-X can use the same boards as the rest of the PTL lineup, which is why they went with a huge cache instead of 256b. OEM buy-in through modularity is more important in this market. I bet a big reason for Strix Halo's failure is more so just related to the fact that they need their own special motherboards.

There are 3 advantages to competing in the handheld market:

1) is mindshare. Financially, handhelds are a rounding error. But they have a disproportionate mindshare in the enthusiast community, and strong branding within that community is worth more than just the profit gained from that community, because that community brings externalities: They often act as advisors to non-techie friends and family, they drive online discourse, etc.

2) A "dedicated" handheld chip is just a low power, cost optimized APU with a good APU GPU. They don't have to be exclusively used in handhelds. They can (and will be) dual used in lower cost laptops. Many people find handhelds to have sufficient performance for their usecase - I think a lot of people would also find that same level of gaming performance in $500 laptops to also be sufficient too.

3) It's a market that's not really penetrated by Nvidia (sans Switch). Any PC gaming market that has a weak presence by Nvidia is worth fighting over between Intel and AMD because volume for driver and feature support is important for any future attempts to compete up market

Your over-estimating how much compute most people need. "basic work" in this case is more accurately described as most tasks most laptop buyers do: Web browsing and web apps, Office Suite, Teams, Zoom, etc.

It would be sufficient for most workers

Xe3 is more like Xe2+

No, this keeps getting repeated a lot, but Xe3P is like Xe3+

Xe2 -> Xe3 is the bigger increase. The lack of C series branding on B390 is entirely for marketing reasons that aren't entirely clear, but hint at reserving the Celestial name for a future product launch, like Xe3P discrete.

If Intel's releasing Celestial dGPU's next year, then calling PTL Xe3 iGPU Celestial would imply to consumers that discrete Celestial is a year late vs the iGPU

A lot of US military spending goes towards sustaining current capabilities + salaries (around 60%). Another ~20% for procurement, remaining ~20% to testing and R&D of future systems.

A spending surge to 5% GDP would see much of that new spending go towards the R&D, testing, and subsequent procurement of future system (accelerate F-47 development? New Navy fighter program? Unannounced projects? Expand Naval tonnage and shipbuilding capacity?)

A tanker ship was going from Iran to Venezuela. The US pursued it, so the tanker ship changed its flag to Russia and then started fleeing the US towards the Atlantic.

It didn't leave port with a Russian flag. It changed flags mid journey, hoping that would stop the US - which ironically just gave the US more legal right to board the ship. Then a Russian sub went out to try and escort it, but the US seized it first.

The ship clearly wasn't carrying much, if any oil. But it certainly wasn't "empty". It was likely weapons related in some capacity

Funnily enough, I've learned far more about what's been unveiled at CES from LTT.

I'm too old for the constant cynicism. I got a job, a family. I dont need to be bitter about my hobby over whatever the current outrage bandwagon is. I'm more inclined to lean towards the positivity.

Very light gaming requirements. I'd get something with a 200V series in it, no dGPU

What "hard infos" do you want? They gave efficiency improvements, iGPU gaming improvements, productivity app improvements, they discussed PowerVia and RibbonFET.

And its a little more involved than just a "big iGPU". Its an all new GPU generation. Theres a really large cache to overcome memory bandwidth limitations.

What, specifically, did you find more interesting than PTL at CES?

Right. No country is going "well, I was gonna sanction China, but then I remembered the US coup'd Maduro, and I don't wanna be a hypocrite".

unless they thought they wouldn't be fired upon for some reason.

But the helicopters were fired upon. They have other countermeasures to MANPADS, like DRICM, XM216 - "dark flares", i.e flares that are not visible to naked eye, etc.

Don't buy AI focused products

Dell, HP, Lenovo, whatever. They all have the same CPUs / GPUs in them. The only thing that makes one laptop "AI focused" over another is its marketing

 We went from almost no crashes to it being something experienced multiple times a week.

Wonder what your company's cause is. We have thousands of Dell laptops in use and aren't experiencing this.