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    Macbooks have the best out-of-box speaker tuning. I can attest to that. That being said, I'd be using headphones/earbuds anyways regardless. I've been using a personalized audio solution (headphones, earbuds, all sorts of wireless variants) for ages now. Even if I have speakers, I just prefer having my noise blasting straight into my ears these days and blocking out the surrounding space.
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    Hardware Unboxed posted a community note on the RTX 5070 Ti. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxKba8DqK5LE-KesvtVvPUeSeq65r1ONGK TLDR; echos what I said. 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16 GB production has been reduced to a trickle where one could consider it EOL. Nvidia hasn't EOL'd any RTX 50-series, only reduced and prioritized GPU and VRAM component shipments, namely focusing on the 5060/Ti 8GB, 5070, 5080 and 5090 at the expense of the 5070 Ti and 5060Ti 16 GB. Asus doesn't know when it will receive a shipment of 5070 Ti parts nor are they expecting any components for those 2 models any time soon.
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    I think it's the other side of the coin with this story. Nvidia is shifting supply to the 5060/Ti 8GB models at the expense of the 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB. A 5070 Ti is a cut-down 5080, so why not force buyers to pay the extra $250 for the 5080. If buyers want something better than the 5060, the 5070 (non Ti) is still out there. Asus marking the 5070 Ti as EOL is signalling that they do not expect any inventory any time soon. Nvidia may bring back the 5070 Ti or the 5060 Ti 16GB, but Asus is saying, "Don't bet on it nor us making more 3rd party cards" If the RTX 6000s come out next year, the 5000 Supers are DOA and Nvidia likely are forecasting that scenario.
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    Here's a good take on the RAM crisis https://x.com/jatinkrmalik/status/2009689523513618887?s=20https://x.com/jatinkrmalik/status/2009689523513618887?s Or if you need a picture:
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    ASUS reportedly says RTX 5070 Ti is no longer being produced, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to follow Looks like the 9070XT will be the this year's price-performance buy/mid-range king. 'Glad I picked up one before Christmas.
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    👍 My concern is, if the continued expanding/contracting of the plastic along with day-to-day jostling causes the connector to come loose, is just reopening it and re-seating it an permanent fix?
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    AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D promises 7% uplift over Ryzen 7 9800X3D – AMD fights itself with ‘new fastest gaming processor’ Seeing how most upgrading is currently not possible, anyone running an AM5 CPU, here's your upgrade. No pricing so...AMD also announced Gorgon Point laptop CPUs. We'll have to wait for reviews to see how that does. Intel doubles down on gaming with Panther Lake, claims 76% faster gaming performance — new X-series chips can match discrete RTX 4050 The rest of AMD was all AI-related, so 😑🙄. Nvidia's keynote was basically a "🖕, we're AI". Nvidia was AI-ing-their AI so you can buy more AI for your AI and AI-ing- an AI. AI. And here I thought the "C" in CES was for "Consumer", not AI. AI.
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    So either option will work for this scenario. Battery life and price seems to favor the AMD model. Overall performance favors Intel. I have no idea about the trackpad, YMMV.
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    If this will be used solely for work, I would not care about what GPU it comes with as long as it can handle 2-3 external monitors at 4K 120Hz (which either will do). If some gaming will be thrown in, the Intel Arc GPU will likely last you longer but the 780M is more than capable of 1080p gaming. Productivity tends to favor Intel CPUs more than AMD. But yes, some more context will help. If you don't want to say what you do exactly, just the general field of work will do. Any laptop could do Powerpoint/Excel/Word/Office so that doesn't really help narrow things.
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    What are the specs on the laptop you are currently using for work or what field of work are you in where Yoga would not work? Weight? The Yoga will do for most work-related tasks. The 860M and RAM are the only things holding it back from being a "gaming" laptop. Need more context.
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    M3 Macbook Air. FYI, CES is next week (Jan 6-9). I'm not expecting too many big announcements but this year's monitors are getting their press releases ahead of the show. Since components will see price increases this year, this may be a good year to upgrade monitors.
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    That's a good deal, given the current climate. I've been seeing end-of year deals expiring sometime in January. Prices are expected jump in February thru March so anyone looking for a deal may want to move on it. There's rumors going around that some vendors may be going BYOR (Buy Your Own RAM) if supply chains worsen.
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    OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers (Bleeping Computer) So Google Ads, but fed to you by a LLM.
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    From what I'm hearing,
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