Recent content by sphinx99

Well, from WiCi you can get a 5090 for $10,000!

I was lucky that I bought / built new machines last fall - prices were already on the upswing but I avoided most of the really painful bits. That said, I could never get my hands on a 5090 try as I might -- they were never available, until they were suddenly available but priced to sit on...

M3 Ultra 512GB is the top end for me. I also have a second paired M3 Ultra with 256GB. Desktop is a TR 9000 series with 128GB. I wish I had bought 256 when I was building it a year and change ago. Too late now. I have a work laptop (M3 Max with 96GB) and a personal laptop (M4 Max, 64GB)...

Micron's profit margin per quarter as of late. This is why.

I don't understand their claim that their local NVMe allows them to utilize larger models than any other device that happens to have NVMe but doesn't make the same claim.

Uh, so they're putting a $5,000 RTX 5090 inside a $5,000 box? I mean, OK I guess.

I don't like the current situation one bit, but the first thing I did when seeing this thread was to look at Nvidia's margin % over the past few years and while it's sky high today, it's been sky high for a while and hadn't shifted too dramatically. This makes it hard for me to convince myself...

I've been pretty impressed with qwen 3.8 flash next lately - it's quick and capable for its size.

Huh, this is a really good idea. That would totally be a useful add for me.

I was able to luck upon an in store option so I got my Duo. Overall I'm pretty impressed. I played in store or with friends' Android flip phones for years now, sometimes unimpressed, other times amazed and envious, and while iPhones are my primary device I usually try to keep a not-too-old...

Yeah, I placed my order late (busy morning) and got the January 2027 date. Yikes!

I got one for my wife who was upgrading from a 15 Pro. That a far, far smaller leap than you'd see from an 11! So, I don't think our perspective will be very helpful. Versus the 15 Pro, the 18 is definitely quicker with the games she plays, and the telephoto camera is kind of game-changing...

One difference is that the Samsung had two-stage aperture control (basically either max or min aperture) whereas the iPhone one has a few midway aperture settings. I'm personally somewhat skeptical about how much use I would get out of this.

I'll probably buy one; I'm fairly all-in on the ecosystem and the open/close animation is sweet. This is absolutely a frivolous, unnecessary expense, but my life is full of such things that I don't need but do want. This mostly checks that box. I am a bit disappointed at not having a robust...

Nice idea and tool! It's often helpful to allow for display of token budget reset windows, and as always having the means to translate tokens to currency (where applicable) can be useful.