Quote from: opckieran on Yesterday at 20:49:33Knowing ASUS, it will probably be too expensive

TUF A14 is their budget lineup, so I'm expecting slightly more reasonable pricing compared to their Zephyrus G14 series.

I'm actually genuinely surprised they put strix halo in this thing.

Then again, with tarriffs, memory supply, Asus already announcing price increases for their entire lineup yea..it probably still will be priced terribly.

Still won't be touching this because it's Asus.

But the good thing is that it shows AMD is taking the Panther Lake threat seriously and the upcoming Nvidia n1x later on. I guess MLID was kinda right when he said we would see more budget halo offerings and in more supply this year.

Maybe we'll see more budget 14" offers from other OEMs too like Lenovo too now.

12% better gaming while Arc B390 is over 80% faster. That's without even factoring Intel's fine wine drivers, so by after a year's worth of updates maybe closer to 90%.

Quote from: RobertJasiek on Yesterday at 18:18:53AMD has never missed a chance to miss a chance!

+1, that should be their company slogan from now on. :P

Quote from: rip RDNA4 iGPU this year on Yesterday at 09:35:15AMD upgraded the RDNA2 iGPU to RDNA3, but why not this time to RDNA4?

They likely want to focus their resources on AI / Data Center for the next 18 months. So wont plan on upgrading their igpus until end of 2027.

What makes it suck even more is that rdna2 -> rdna3 -> rdna3.5, weren't at all that big of updates to begin with. The only reason the igpus got any faster was mostly because they were increasing the CUs. So this feels like 5 years of stagnation.

We all complain but in the end the result is the same. The majority of PC gamers will stay on windows for 2 reasons:

1. Retro game compatibility

2. Online multiplayer anti cheat

There are old game mods or patches that are no longer in development but still fairly popularly among their respective communities in online multiplayer circles. They were designed and mostly tested for windows. They likely do run on linux but you may run into unexpected behaviour, additional bugs or crashes due to lack of testing.

Then there's the obvious more modern online multiplayer games with their kernel anti cheats that break Linux compatibility and cause issues.

If there was some kind of universal compatibility layer like proton but for online multiplayer servers and anticheat that could solve this, I think people would switch in a heartbeat, at least I would.

If you only game offline, on single player, idk what you're doing still on windows. Same if you don't game at all.

Waiting for A to respond to this Linux thread. =P