They probably used AI to generate an article then modified.

To be honest, it wouldn't surprise me. And not because of the rumors about Sony coming with a new Vita (which I think it's nuts and come from the same people that bring the new handheld topic every time Sony launches a new console), but because MSoft sees that Valve is dominating the handheld PC market and they are doing it with a linux based OS.

So, naturally, they have to do something about it and, instead of making a better Windows that has the same cool features that SteamOS has, like quick resume play, and leave it to Asus, MSI and Lenovo to take the fight, they'll try to do it by making their own device, which won't be much different than the other Windows based ones and, therefore, it will be kind of pointless.

That's nice !

What Microsoft needs to do is take the Xbox approach to handhelds.

...That is, take the Windows kernel and strip it back to it's basics, then add-in only the necessary components for compatibility and gaming... Because say what you want about Xbox, their software stack is extremely solid.

Then release it into the world for OEM's to take and run with, they won't even make inroads into handheld gaming at this point, heck they are struggling just in the home console space... But if they let other companies do the leg work, they might take marketshare, especially if they prioritise their own store and gamepass.

Obviously they would need to place some hardware rules to ensure a minimum expected experience.

For most of us, myself included, the following article will look like some kind of gibberish, but for the few that are tech savvy, this could be an interesting read (if you haven't read it before, of course):

Examining AMD’s RDNA 4 Changes in LLVM
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/01/28/examining-amds-rdna-4-changes-in-llvm/

Hello I was wondering if anyone here on VGchartz has been on steam for 20 years and how long do you think a gaming laptop can last if I take care cleaning it every six months?

Seems to be at about the interface between hardware and compilers, so from a software perspective, that's really low-level stuff.

Well, it's been almost 20 years since Half-Life 2 was released, so almost 20 years on Steam too... That said, I'm on my second Steam account because reasons (not cheating and not account theft). Also, can't really help you with your laptop question, sorry.

I've been on this site longer than on Steam. I don't know how to feel about that.

I don't know much about laptops, but I think the battery losing charge is your biggest problem, unless you only use it plugged, of course.

Yeah, it's hard to really see what's going on.

The interface has always existed.

It's about the changes and additions they are bringing... Mostly to streamline the systems AMD uses for better efficiency and instruction parallelism, better cache utilization for tensor ops and reducing latency.

For most of us it's business as usual... But the changes do highlight that AMD is taking tensor operations more seriously with RDNA4.

Hardware is a fickle thing.

I mean... I have an old Pentium M Dothan with a Radeon 9700 Pro laptop hanging around with the CPU overclocked from 1.6Ghz to 2.4Ghz and the GPU from 445Mhz to 520Mhz since 2002.

It's been fine. Mostly gets used as a file server with some home automation tasks (I.E. Controlling garage doors), but I just can't kill it. Never cleaned, it just sits out in the garage.

I have an old Intel Atom N550 system from 2010 as a test box for a few hobbyist projects and I need to use external USB audio because the onboard audio chip died.

Hard to predict these things... And often failures aren't preventable because it's not a user issue.

Cleaning or not cleaning, I dont tend to clean my desktop PC all that often as it doesn't seem to significantly build up with dust, maybe once a year if I am lucky.

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But if your expectation isn't hardware longevity, but rather capable performance in the latest software... That is where things get tricky.

Most RTX 3060 and lower notebooks tend to have 6GB of VRAM or less, which will be a massive hindrance over the coming years, even if the GPU's themselves are semi-capable.
So you need to align your expectations to match... Notebooks are under-equipped in the GPU department.

Time for some Granblue Fantasy Relink propaganda !