[ale] ot: cpu laptop

[Pete Hardie]

Quick, someone patent the self-removing GPU!

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sadly, those chips can get hot enough to reflow their attachment solder.
> However, that is only a specific problem with HP who used a poorly sized
> heat sink coupled with a low quality thermal pad. Asus didn't have the
> problem as they bolted on the heatsink.
> On Mar 30, 2015 4:12 PM, "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
>
>>  Well, I have on one corner of my Desk an HP Pavillion notebook with AMD
>> components.   It has apparently gotten too hot watching BBC shows on Acorn,
>> and the GPU has de-soldered itself from the board.    And apparently this
>> is a known behavior of HP notebooks with AMD components.  While shopping
>> for an Intel replacement, even at the low tech Office Depot if you say "No,
>> I don't want to look at HP nor AMD" they say "oh, you must have been burned
>> by your AMD GPU, eh?".
>>
>> Thus an HP/AMD computer has the lonely status of the ONLY computer I or
>> my company has ever owned which will not now boot up.  I have a few still
>> that are obsolete, but at least they will power up.
>>
>> So, I have no sympathy for AMD.  Or HP.
>>
>> Neal Rhodes
>> (formerly HP Netserver certified)
>>
>> On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:29 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> Ouch.
>>
>> AMD is not doing well. After kicking Intel in the teeth a decade ago
>> with the Opteron they ran into build issues, stumbled, and have never
>> recovered their momentum. They still don't have a PCIe v.3 capable
>> chipset. It's been 4+ years since PCIe v.3 came out. That alone will
>> kill them in the server market.
>>
>> Their consumer cpu's are still a better bang for buck line-up than Intel
>> but they can't sell enough of what looks like last year's technology to
>> the gamer crowd or the business box buyer.
>>
>> I don't expect to see them around in 2020 and that will be a bad thing.
>>
>> On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:21 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> > Today in microcenter i didn't see any AMD based laptop ...
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sent from Gmail Mobile
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Ale mailing list
>> > Ale at ale.org
>> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ale mailing list
>> Ale at ale.org
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>


-- 
Pete Hardie
--------
Better Living Through Bitmaps
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20150330/2620a6c1/attachment.html>