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The Russian laptop is just as terrible as you imagined

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I feel like people just want to dunk on Russia, which I totally get, but this would be the reality of any country trying to make a laptop with only existing (as in available day-0) domestic components and software. Taiwan, China, and the US would probably fare better but still would make mediocre laptops by global standards.

This laptop doesn’t use only domestic components though. Only the CPU is kind of Russian (but manufactured outside Russia).

I don't think this is so much a "Russian" laptop as it is a "US-less" laptop. It's probably also mostly a proof-of-concept in case the US ever imposes sanctions on Russia, which, well hey, we're there now!

americans just love to shill on russia and its efforts to localize everything. they may not be pretty or sleek but for them, its necessary.

in a few years, with the RISC-v, the american monopoly on computing today aka x86 or ARM would be diluted to a considerable extent because many countries including russia, india, china, iran fear the american banhammer crippling their countries. using free hardware and free software, they would be much better equipped in future to simply ignore "sanctions"

The time is so difficult now that it is very hard to meet a truly wise professional on the Internet. Thank you for being. While fake news sources claim RISC-V command set was created in the US to train students (and that ARM is not US but British company in general), only you and I know the truth: 1/4 RISC-V command set was created in russia (in kostroma to be more precise), 1/4 was created in india (in burugulikela village), 1/4 was designed in china by wuhan military microbiologists (for some reason they decided not to call themselves), the rest 1/4 is a handiwork of the basijs in the name of Ayatollah Khomeini.

That's why RISC-V is so beautiful! In the future, everything will be with RISC-V inside! Just have to wait a little... tee-hee

haha so funny

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/19/india_microprocessor_...

literally from the headline "India selects RISC-V for semiconductor self-sufficiency contest"

"SELF SUFFICIENCY" is the important thing to note here.

Russia making awful alternatives to western tech is just a stereotype at this point, isn't it?

With 'as this point' you mean since Peter the Great right?

This article is more terrible than I imagined.

Russian and Soviet engineers have done a lot of amazing work.

Elbrus was decapitated pretty well in 2004 when Intel hired approximately 500 engineers and related staff from the Elbrus

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/56406-intel-hires-elbrus...

Sure they did - except that was decades ago.

Maybe, but the article is terrible too.

That whole site is terrible!

English as a second language? Can’t pick up what’s off about it…

As far as I can tell, it's translated from a Czech video.

https://twitter.com/adent/status/1504425437098823682

Maybe ML generated?

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