Posts by Scotthva5 203 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2014
That's rather the point though, 1W sounds impressive but 30FPS is most definitely not desktop class. The low power draw is useless if it can't provide usable graphics. Note that the claimed 30FPS is an average and there is no mention of 1% or .1% FPS. These are important if you don't want a stuttery, unplayable mess.
Temporary construction jobs mainly and nothing after that. As far as tax revenue is concerned that is a pipe dream seeing as local governments are falling all over themselves to give massive tax breaks to attract these hyperscalers in the first place.
This doesn't have the first thing to do with AI. The technology to detect certain chemicals emitted in the human breath has been around for ages and all their 'AI' is doing is comparing a sample to known values. Marketing at its finest and I'm sure the venture capitalists will eat it up.
Even the fastest mobile GPU (5090 mobile) is more than 50% slower in actual game play than its desktop conterpart and is roughly on par with a mid-range card. There will always be a market for discrete components and no amount of Apple-style "you will eat our dog food and enjoy it" will convince me otherwise. Of course no one is gaming on a Mac...
It sounds great - on paper - but instead of actually reading the documents I'm supposed to trust Copilot's summation? What if it misses vital information or draws the wrong conclusion based on yet another hallucination and presented as fact? This is a slippery slope that only Microsoft could dream up and woe be to the team that makes important business decisions based on it.
Bit barns love water and Texas isn't exactly swimming in the liquid stuff. Are they going to lower the water table even further by digging wells? Divert rivers? Build their farms next to the Gulf of Mexico? Yet more environmental questions whilst they chase the latest IT fad to dubious ends.
"The panel of industry representatives felt there is a need for education..."
Along the lines of "either let us tap into your already overextended grid and jack up prices for everyone or we'll build fossil fuel plants ourselves and destroy the environment."
That kind of education?
My employer - a small project management firm - is slowly switching back to on-prem after repeated AWS outages and rising prices. A Linux native version of our management application suite should be ready by third quarter 2026 thanks to Microsoft's addiction to 'AI' and the cost of keeping our Win 10 rigs running.
