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The Walmart "Motile" Cheap Laptops

Journal by takyon

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

This $210 AMD Ryzen laptop may well be the best-value business notebook ever

Motile 14" Laptop: Ryzen 3, 1080p, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD ($199)
Motile 14" Laptop: AMD Ryzen 5, 14" 1080p, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD ($299)

MOTILE 14 Review $299 RYZEN 5 3500U Performance Laptop Amazing Value! (10m40s video)
$299 MOTILE 14" Performance Laptop Emulation Test - RYZEN 5 3500U (11m50s video)
External GPU On A $300 Walmart Laptop! MOTILE 14 + Radeon RX590 (10m52s video) (lol)

These $200-$300 laptops have a stellar reputation compared to the $80 landfill-tier EVOO 10.1 tablet that Walmart is associated with.

The main problems are probably single-channel RAM (although at least it can be upgraded), apparently a crappy Wi-Fi card, no USB-C charging, and they are Zen+. It's possible that Zen 2 "Renoir" could allow 4 or 6 cores in place of what is currently 2 or 4 cores, although it would take a while for prices to drop down to these levels.

Personally, I might take a break from laptops and try building a small form factor PC using Zen 4 (AM5 socket), which may be released in 2021. AM5 should support "mainstream" CPUs with at least 24 cores, possibly 32 cores.

Also, @krishnoid, Lenovo 100e is at $99.

 

Reply to: Re:Toys

    (Score: 1) by pTamok on Thursday February 06 2020, @09:18PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Thursday February 06 2020, @09:18PM (#954862)

    I can do 60 tabs on a single 4 GB device.

    1 tab per 1 device? Well, it's a valid lifestyle choice.

    Hmm. On my 8 Gigabyte RAM laptop, I find I need to save my tabs and restart Firefox after a while when I get to around 550 (yes, five hundred and fifty) tabs. Its an AMD A10 processor, so not exactly up to the minute. With that number of tabs open my cpu is bumping along between 1 and 5% and RAM usage about 30-40%.

    $ free -m
                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           6868        2501         387         254        3979        3817
    Swap:         12287           0       12287

    I use uMatrix and uBlock origin.

    It probably has to do with me tending not to stream videos or audio.

    It works for me. Obviously, other people have different use-cases and usage profiles. I remember Jerry Pournelle saying you should have one cpu per task, and if cpus are cheap and efficient enough, and similarly inter-system communication, I'd agree with him: but my real-life experience is that the Linux scheduler works well.

    Note, I just reset my phone's (Sailfish) browser having got to roughly 550 tabs on that too.

    This probably says more about my browsing habits than the hardware's capabilities.

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