Thereâs another option: 14 inch T14 i7-10610U, 16GB RAM, 256GB storage for 400usd (also used, directly from the US). Would that be better than the Carbon?
What these folks do is essentially bulk-import cheap laptops from the USA, UAE, Singapore or Hong Kong to your country, and bump it by around 50 to 100$ to make a profit out of it.
Try looking for trusted international shipping options from Singapore or Hong Kong, because this price is pretty expensive for a almost six-year old laptop - you should be looking at 280$, at max for a 8th gen processor.
If you can wait, have a relative in the US get a slightly modern model for cheap through them, this way you donât have to pay shipping, insurance and customs.
And just a word of warning - please verify the laptop model using itâs serial number. Check carefully if there are any discrepancies.
Thanks a lot but I have no idea as to where to even begin with the search for trusted international shipping options. Any advice on that?
Iâm also not from the states so tough luck with relatives đ
How can I use the serial number to verify? Where and what to look for? Should I ask the shop before buying to show me the serial number? Itâs an online-only store.
How can I use the serial number to verify? Where and what to look for? Should I ask the shop before buying to show me the serial number? Itâs an online-only store.
Head onto support.lenovo.com/id/en/parts-lookup and enter the part number. Shops will provide you with serial number - if they donât, ask them. If they donât comply with your request (and given how youâre already overpaying), donât even bother buying those devices. It has every information youâll need - specification, remaining warranty time-period, option and even the page to look for exact parts.
Thanks a lot but I have no idea as to where to even begin with the search for trusted international shipping options. Any advice on that?
On the contrary, I was going to ask a fellow Asian for discounted stuff to import to India - I had also considered shipping old laptops from China to India, but I canât read or understand Mandarin. Right now, I am considering to either get refurbished laptops through one of my relatives living in the east coast (for which, Iâll have to wait till November, and Iâm fine with that), or pay the hefty shipping, insurance and customs (which would still be cheaper than buying locally, to be honest).
Germanyâs problem, that other countries donât have, is the âSchuldenbremseâ (debt break). The USA and China are heavily investing by taking on debt while Germany isnât investing anything and can barely keep public services alive.
If only it was just the public sector. I do agree with you, but the problem is cultural. Itâs not just the government. None of the big or smaller corporations or companies are investing either.
My brother and I were, like, 7 and 10, respectively, when we played this. Some things on the list were obvious, others (the heck is a âslalomâ?!) we had to guess just by doing every possible thing you could do with a car. A couple dayâs work, bada-bing bada-boom.
unavailability of trash cans (in a convenient distance)
inability to pay for trash disposal (this includes transport of heavy items or a large quantity of)
creation of jobs associated with trash removal (often including arguments that tax payers fund those jobs and as a taxpayer itâs their right to litter)
Exaggerated are these issues by low social education fueling short sightedness (âout of view out of mindâ). So people lacking the understanding that somebody has to pay for removal of that waste.
The amount of people that canât handle a super basic rating of a news outlet is chilling.
I know and accept that I rely on biased media, because all of it is biased. Itâs media, not scientific papers (which are also often biased btw.). Having a bias does not automatically make it bad.
I care a lot about factual reporting tho. And I want to see the same news from different POVs, with different biases, because they will highlight different things. If you donât, mute the bot, get your daily dose of whatever propaganda you like so much and stfu.
And no, this is not âcentrismâ. Iâm pretty sure most people who use that word donât even know what it means. Historically, centrism describes a moderate left-wing view. Centrists are the center of left.
I am constantly amused about how ânext yearâ has been âthe year of Linux on the desktopâ for 20+ years. Meanwhile, Linux & BSD have pretty much completely taken over the whole world except the desktop in that same time.
Honestly this is a pretty good use case for LLMs and Iâve seen them used very successfully to detect infection in samples for various neglected tropical diseases. This literally is what AI should be used for.
I think a 650 W PSU should be enough for a workload of 490 W idle. Please, correct me, if I am wrong.
You mean 490W under load, right? One would hope that your computer uses less than 100W idle, otherwise itâs going to get toasty in your room :) I would say this depends on how much cheaper a 650W PSU is, and how likely it is youâll upgrade your GPU. It really sucks saving up for a ridiculously expensive new GPU and then realizing you also need to fork out an additional âŹ150 to replace your fully functional PSU. On the other hand, going from 650W to 850W might double the cost of the PSU, and it would be a waste of money if you donât buy a high end GPU in the future. For PSU, check out cultists.network/140/psu-tier-list/ .If youâre buying a decent quality unit I wouldnât worry about efficiency loss from running at a lower % of its rated max W, I doubt itâs going to be enough to be noticeable on your power bill.
Iâve always had Nvidia GPUs and theyâve worked great for me, though Iâve stayed with X11 and never bothered with Wayland. If youâre conscious about power usage, many cards can be power limited + overclocked to compensate. For example I could limit my old RTX3080 to 200W (it draws up to 350W with stock settings) and with some clock speed adjustments I would only lose about 10% fps in games, which isnât really noticeable if youâre still hitting 120+ fps. My current RTX3090 canât go below 300W (stock is 370W) without significant performance loss though.
If you have any interest in running AI stuff, especially LLM (text generation / chat), then get as much VRAM as you possibly can. Unfortunately I discovered local LLMs just after buying the 3080, which was great for games, and realized that 12GB VRAM is not that much. CUDA (i.e. Nvidia GPUs) is still dominant in AI, but ROCm (AMD) is getting more support so you might be able to run some things at least.
Another mistake I made when speccing my PC was to buy 2*16GB RAM. It sounded like a lot at the time, but once again when dealing with LLMs there are models which are larger than 32GB that I would like to run with partial offloading (splitting work between GPU and CPU, though usually quite slow). Turns out that DDR5 is quite unstable, and I donât know if itâs my motherboard or the Ryzen CPU which is to blame, but I canât just add 2 more RAM. I.e. there are 4 slots, but it would run at 3800MHz instead of the 6200Mhz that the individual sticks are rated for. Donât know if Intel mobos can run 4x DDR5 sticks at full speed.
And a piece general advice, in case this isnât common knowledge at this point; Be wary when trying to find buying advice using search engines. Most of the time itâll only give you low quality âreviewsâ which are written only to convince readers to click on their affiliate links :( There are still a few sites which actually test the components and not just AI generate articles. Personally I look for tier lists compiled by users (Like this one for mobos), and when it comes to reviews I tend to trust those which get very technical with component analyses, measurements and multiple benchmarks.
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