Daily Tech News 12 April 2023

• The best new lightweight laptop may be an old lightweight laptop. (Ars Technica)
  
  If you're looking for a new lightweight Windows laptop and don't want to wait until eventually AMD models show up, you might be better off buying a model from last year while they're clearing out old stock.
  
  Intel's mainstream 13th generation laptop chips are barely better than 12th generation, and there are some good sales going on, particularly with sales down 30% year-on-year.

• Substack's Twitter-killer, Substack Notes, is live and not yet overrun with garbage. (Substack)
  
  I'll give it a try at least. Substack does not appear to be a victim of the woke mind plague just yet.
  
  
  
• Is 12GB of VRAM enough? AMD says no. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Because all of AMD's high-end cards from the previous and current generations have at least 16GB, where even the 3080Ti and 4070Ti are 12GB cards.
  
  
  
• Need a laptop with six screens, 192 cores, and 3TB of RAM? Media Workstations has you covered. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is really for certain specific markets like oil exploration and film production, where you need an entire server that you can pick up and take with you.
  
  It weighs 45 pounds, and I don't think it has a battery at all.
  
  
  

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