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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.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Thursday February 06 2020, @11:15PM
I have lots of tab cruft, but am strictly a two windows person: one general browsing, and one private browsing.
As for the tabs, you are almost certainly correct about reloading (I just checked, and yes), but for me, that's no big deal. I can wait for a couple of beats if I switch to a really old tab.
I am cruel to Firefox: I shut down the machine without shutting down Firefox, so on restart, FF offers to Reload/Restore/Resume, which is nice. It rarely fails these days. So, given the daily reboots, and FF resume behaviour, a lot of those tabs are probably just stubs waiting to be kicked into life and reloaded. The computer allows me to be disorganised, which is great.
Every so often I save all the tabs into a new bookmarks folder, so my bookmarks storage is huge (more than a decade's worth*). It has been a useful resource on multiple occasions, as searching the bookmarks has recovered stuff I couldn't find by regular Internet Search engines.
Anyway, letting the computer do what it is good at (keeping track of the detailed stuff) so I don't have to strikes me as a defensible approach. I do the same with email: keep everything, and use search to dig out things I need later. I have not yet found a workable approach for audio, picture, and video archives. I hope someone comes up with an AI cataloger that runs on my system that can attach accurate automatically generated metadata to such stuff, so I can search it easily using textual search tools. I have no doubt the TLAs have such things. Curating unstructured media is a hard problem.
*In principle, I could just search through the History, but the Bookmarks are easily editable and exportable, and still allow me to index stuff in a way that works for me. It's also interesting looking at the old Bookmarks to see how many sites still work or not, and 'permanent' URLs that have turned out not to be...here's an example that still works: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/11/06/1549256/how-to-verify-cd-r-data-retention-over-time [slashdot.org] and another http://www.inference.org.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html [inference.org.uk]