I bought an expensive laptop with 4k and I was expecting performance when watching videos etc. I've already got a performant desktop that is doing great / playing smooth.
I got my laptop working and played a video I played earlier while it was still running windows and it ran like shit (now the laptop runs linux). I played the video again on the desktop and I could swear that although some scenes weren't perfect, they were indeed pretty dang smooth. I went back and forth between the laptop and desktop on the same monitor and definitely the laptop on some portions of the video was unacceptably shitably choppy. It seems that it's during times of significant large visual movement.
I ran the video again with mpv, as I had to compile vlc without vaapi support, and indeed now on the laptop's screen the video is smooth as butter, even better than the desktop on the monitor. However when the laptop was set to back mpv with the monitor, it was back to noticeable shit chop.
Wtf is my expensive ass laptop cheaping out on their hdmi hardware! wtf!
This is pissing me off because for this damn thing to be worth my time it needs to be a full desktop and laptop replacement. wtffffffffff
You can Spend $5,000 on a laptop and it still wont replace a desktop. I know I hate this truth too. If it aint the ram its the gpu sharing, if it aint the gpu, its the heat.
I got a ROG Zephyrus, its still not fast enough. Its faster than most desktops sure, but you can only push it so far.
puremadness 1 points 6 months ago
You can Spend $5,000 on a laptop and it still wont replace a desktop.
I know I hate this truth too.
If it aint the ram its the gpu sharing,
if it aint the gpu, its the heat.
I got a ROG Zephyrus, its still not fast enough.
Its faster than most desktops sure, but you can only push it so far.