Agreed, the official process was a massive pain and borderline non functional.

Would be good to have ECC ram as a standard on the consumer side as well, but I doubt this will ever happen due to segmentation and honestly lack of market demand (you can't market such a feature).

Memory prices/demand tend to be very cyclical.

If we do see the AI bubble popping (due to lack of revenue generating use cases) in the next 12-18 months, this will probably affect not only memory (although I don't think GPU prices will go down).

Most optical memory storage methods developed in the past, including CDs and DVDs, are limited by the diffraction limit of light. A single data point cannot be smaller than the wavelength of the laser writing and reading the data. In the new work, the researchers proposed boosting the bit density of optical storage by embedding many rare-earth emitters within the material. By using slightly different wavelengths of light — an approach known as wavelength multiplexing — they hypothesized that these emitters could hold more data within the same area.

An interesting approach. In my limited understanding, this is comparable to getting more space by using different disc standards (CD, DVD, Bluray) at the same time.

That being said, on the consumer side everything seems to be moving towards solid state storage mediums. Even if this does get commercialized in the next ~5 years, I can't see this competing with SSDs on the consumer side.

It's a keyboard that allows you type violently by punching it. AI algorithms are used to converts punches into meaningful keypresses.

That ship has sailed.

While always liked larger screen phones (even back when they were called phablets), I do wish we had more choice (and competition) in our smartphone products. But I guess the impact of economies of scale and platform network effects is so large that we can't really have effective competition.

Or USB-C requirements.

I believe the overall naming methodology (2xx numbering, ultra vs non-ultra, main numeral) are similar across desktop and mobile.

Personally I wish both CPUs and GPUs fr mobile had an -M suffix or something similar.

I lived in North America for ~10 years, the whole time I still converted miles / pounds / fahrenheit into real units in my head.

To this day, feet/yards etc. sounds like made up measures to me.

I am looking at it from a more global perspective; more competition results in better prices and a wider selection of products for consumers. In that sense, we want AMD and Intel to be both competitive and roughly equal.

I explicitly stated that I would not buy an Intel desktop CPU or an Intel laptop at this point.

Based on historical trends, I would disagree.

AMD was in a far worse spot with bulldozer and they were able to become competitive again.

I don't support Intel (or AMD), if anything I wish there was far more competition in the CPU (x86 or otherwise) and GPU space.

I personally wouldn't buy an Intel chip on desktop or in a laptop (as of today), but I think you're being a little bit melodramatic. Their offerings are not that terrible, this is particularly true with laptops where you have a much wider selection if going with Intel.

Laptop OEMs have actually called out AMD for not providing enough support for implementing AMD platforms in their devices.

To implement something like this, you would need a radical change in judicial and criminal systems.

Something along the lines of any white collar crime worth more than say 10 annual local median salaries, would require a rehabilitation program (if convicted) that would start with full asset seizure (absolutely everything) and a minimum of 10 years real community service (live-in junior janitor at an Alzheimer's outpatient institution with minimum wage and limited access to internet and smartphones). The community service could easily be extended to 20, 30 or 40 years depending the on the severity of the crime.

You would also need to get rid of various "get out of jail free" laws and make it easy to organized criminals and send them to rehabilitation programs.

I can't imagine why you would use a built-in TV/monitor OS. Even if you're not computer savvy, you're better of getting a cheap streaming stick.

Are you sure that a soundcard needs weird software to work? With just the drivers you should just have working sound output via the soundcard ports. I could be wrong as I haven't had a soundcard in a very long time.

Could be annoying, but you may be able to only install the drivers and avoid the bloatware. I do that with Nvidia, I only have the drivers, not Geforce experience or whatever.

Sucks about onboard audio dying; hate when things like this happen on a new build.

Unfortunately I can't make recommendation on your proposed setup, but as an alternative, have you considered getting soundcard as an alternative? The basic ones are ~$20 where I live.

Seems like an excellent monitor, but I really dislike the "ROG" branding. It's so obnoxious.

Too bad there is no DisplayPort input. I get it it that this a TV device "redone" for a monitor product, but still.