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My laptop is the same, it just means that it goes through the iGPU so you loose a few % over something with Optimus or a dedicated port.

A lot of laptops will do iGPU on one USBC port and dGPU on the other, did you check both or have advanced Optimus mux switch.

Perhaps the dGPU is to HDMI?

 

I understand that there are issues beyond just a few % when either using G-Sync or VR headsets when routing through the iGPU though (?)

This just had the one USB-C onboard - there's a setting in the BIOS for GPU configuration and it had no effect on the output of this port. HP support gave conflicting information across two different sessions, and no configuration seemed to work. Either this one was duff in isolation or it's just not a supported configuration, but given it was still in the easy-peasy return window figured that was safest rather than continuing to dabble.

The Alienware I was about to buy clearly identifies one USB-C as dGPU and the other as iGPU... but that's superfluous information now with the unexpected price hike.

 

That may be the case, I don't know about VR headset and the requirements, for Gsync side certainly issues on my laptop, I cannot get G-sync on USBC only on HDMI but don't know if that is a cable issue my end or a hardware issue as I use a TB dock that is quite old.

Laptops are such a PITA to buy, so many pitfalls from GPU power port issues etc.

You would expect a direct connection to dGPU on a gaming laptop like an Omen, my laptop is not a gaming laptop so I gave it a pass but really, these things shouldn't be so difficult

 

QFT - the GPU power situation in particular is nuts! I was completely oblivious to this until I started shopping and wondering why there seems to be two tiers of 5060/70 laptops with wildly different price points.

This is the main reason I had been shopping Omen, Alienware, Legion etc (that and workstation laptops with fully juiced GPUs are stupid money), but even then there's a lot of legwork in confirming what their power budgets are.

EDIT: Holy moly just noticed on the Dell site the spec that was £1600 yesterday has gone up again - £2200 now!

 

Dell outlet prices have not (yet) been subject to the same price hike, so have grabbed one from there.
Minor "issue" being that you get what you get in terms of specs depending on which models are there... so have way more laptop than I really planned to get (275HX, 64GB, 2TB SED, 5070).

I don't think I'll even touch the sides of 64GB so in light of the current crisis I'll probably list on classifieds to P/X for 32GB to recoup a few quid since it was more than I had planned to spend as well. I don't need a SED either, but don't expect that's similarly valuable to others to be worth swapping for a vanilla NVME.

Unless of course Dell cancels the order and cranks the price by £600 for this one too.

 

Everyone is upping prices due to the AI component hoarding, so best prices are for old things that were priced prior to this.

 

Got an Apple Watch 10, from Apple Refurb'. Replaces an old and tired looking but, free to me, Apple Watch 2.

 

I've just noticed they've increased the price on all the outlet models as well.
My order has been confirmed and is currently "processing", hope they don't pull a corsair on me.

 

Probably the most retarded thing I’ve ever wasted money on… a private number plate. F9 UCK

 

Congratulations on becoming a member of P.E.N.U.S.
Personalised Number Plate Society.

 

A workmate bought that and the millennium falcon from AliExpress. Not official Lego but practically indistinguishable from the real thing, beyond the little lego logos on each brick.

 

Could I implore you not to use the r-word, please?

 

Isn’t there a risk the DVLA decides it is “inappropriate” down the line and takes it out of circulation, IIRC replacing it with a standard plate and leaving you out of pocket?

 

Yes not unknown for them to give their heads a wobble once in a while

 

Been an expensive day..

7 days away to the coast for me and pooch later in year,
A new back pack managed to destory mine today at work some how.
A heated luch box
New leds for dog colar as my old one died.

 

Kickstarter launched for the next 2 volumes of Girl Genius, so I pledged.

 

Oo, nice. Love Girl Genius.

 

Already 51% funded in 3 hours flat!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...erm=girl genius&total_hits=27&category_id=252