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> When rumours started circulating about a laptop with over 100 GiB of RAM the GPU could access

That was like three years ago with the release of M3, do you not count MacBooks as laptops or something? Not that you could run Linux on it back then, but you don't even mention the existence of Apple silicon at all?

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Since all non-dedicated GPUs work this way I'd argue this was possible even longer ago. Now one has to question whether those integrated GPUs had any usable computing power. So it's not clear where to draw the line.

I can understand disregarding Apple hardware as they are not general computing devices since they support only a single, locked down OS.

> I can understand disregarding Apple hardware as they are not general computing devices since they support only a single, locked down OS.

Mac is absolutely a general computing device but macOS is the only software that fully supports it currently (Asahi Linux is still trying to get M3 Max and newer working)

> you don't even mention the existence of Apple silicon at all?

Given the reasons she lists for not wanting Windows, I can't imagine her entering Apple's closed garden.

That's like saying Valve just released the first ever standalone VR headset because the standalones that came before had advertising and trackers (or worse). Or that TVs aren't produced anymore because they all come with similar software. Or cars.

Saying RTX Spark is the first laptop with 128 GB of unified memory just because you don't agree with the previous laptops with 128 GB of unified memory is just incorrect. You could easily make it true with qualifiers but there were none here!

Also did nobody ever release a 128GB Strix Halo laptop? I remember that being a thing around when the Framework Desktop came out? And feels like that'd have even better Linux support than Nvidia? What's the ideological objection to that?

of course the asus rog z13.

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