So, my young friend has put in a formal request for a laptop. After some inquisition it appears the request may be related to gaming, which is no sensible reason to buy a laptop, or anything. But in the interest of education, I had a sniff around the W-cubed and tangentially see that the latest Sammy phones appear to have whopping grunt under the hood:
Faster tech that you can't use yet
We get the Exynos 9 chipset and not the Qualcomm 855 one because of the modems in them not being suitable for NZ. There's either 8GB of RAM for the 128GB and 512GB storage models, or 12 GB of RAM with the 1TB device.
Every year phone makers cram more powerful chips into their devices, and the 64-bit Exynos has eight cores, two of which that can run as fast as 2730 MHz. Another two run at up to 2314 MHz, and a further four cores top out at 1950 MHz. They drop the speed to as low as 442 to 507 MHz and turbo up and down to save battery and keep cool.
So, would it be possible that we get a laptop this year, and then find that next year, a phone can be the core processor - the Mutha-board - that can run all AutoD products et al and even perform as the DC, and so, all that's missing is the big screen which you can buy separately for say $250 and then that's all offices and homes will need, i.e you rock in, connect, pontificate, sail out?
(I recently opened a ?ÿPCIe SSD equipped HP Z series "AutoCAD" PC and was surprised to see inside ... nothing).
(BTW, AutoD, Sammy et al, my boat deal fell through, so feel free to reach out to me with a free boat. I've got thoughts on a virtual keyboard and screen too.)
