Patroncast - S04E46 - Framework laptop 16 & Nice little weekend getaway
Added 2024-11-18 13:53:48 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
In this episode, I talk about receiving the Framework Laptop 16, which I received sort of by surprise and played around with (including using Resolve on its AMD GPU), and about a nice little weekend getaway we did with the girlfriend (which explains why I'm posting this so late...)
Have a great week!
Comments
I have the orange bezel on my FW16 and it's not nearly as irritating as I thought it might be
darkwater4213
2024-11-28 19:30:26 +0000 UTCThe FW16 is 16:10 which really messes up certain games. Destiny 2 for example has no idea how to deal with it, even after I properly configure my resolution (2560x1600; it's technically a HiDPI display but I would only run it at 150% scaling, not 200%)
darkwater4213
2024-11-27 20:34:28 +0000 UTCThe Framework 16 doesn't come with anything "by default". The price ($1,399 starting) includes the expansion bay shell (marked up to $119 on the marketplace from $99 new) and the GPU is an extra $399. You can also get both if you can't decide (+$499). So in some sense "no GPU" is the default, though most people I would think want the GPU. You're forced to explicitly make that decision when ordering anyway though. Source: I have one! I eventually snagged the GPU and swapped it out. Well worth the $500ish USD imo
darkwater4213
2024-11-27 20:31:45 +0000 UTCMaybe you could consider mastodon and your discord server for the giveaway too? I don't know what kind of policies each platform has in place when it comes to giveaways, but it can probably be complicated to navigate.
UsernamesAreHard
2024-11-19 10:13:48 +0000 UTCYeah, it did work really easily, but even when trying to use Resolve with the dGPU, performance simply wasn't solid enough for me. maybe I missed something, or maybe it's just the fact that openCL is just not as good as CUDA for Resolve. As per the giveaway, not sure, it probably would be a patreon / youtube member only thing to avoid the usual pitfalls of Youtube not liking these things.
The Linux Experiment
2024-11-19 10:00:26 +0000 UTCIt's unfortunate that DaVincibox has a high performance loss. It did sound too good to be true to easily install Resolve on linux through a container :( Do you have an idea on how you would organize a giveaway if framework doesn't want the computer back? Last time you did a giveaway it didn't go too well lol.
UsernamesAreHard
2024-11-18 21:24:39 +0000 UTC
