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.