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Well Damn. So my m15 R5 *seemed* to finally have a working HDMI port after a fresh install of stable. Then I installed the drivers and... poof... no more external display.

So I still have a two year old laptop with a great GPU, tons of ram that can't be used with a monitor.

And my main workhorse, an from 2019 that works just fine.

Sometimes I literally just SSH into the "good machine" to put it to work with .

I've tried many many times to ditch Apple but have been unsuccessful because ultimately their devices are NICE to use. I'd been going about it the wrong way: swap apple device with budget alternative.

Well, this time I took a different path -- go all out on a laptop alternative.

I ended up with the MASSIVE Alienware M18 R2 and seems I might hang on to this big boy for a bit more making my Apple hiatus a tad big longer hopefully enough to wean me off!

Alienware Area 51 7500 RestoMod
Dumpfound parts to restore a beauty of a case. Yes, to you purists, I saved the OG parts.
GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 Motherboard, Razer Mouse, Logitech G-513 Keys, Pioneer SA-7500 mk II amp. The power supply I found in the dump almost wrecked everything and the dumpfound GTX1060 was eventually replaced by an RX6700. It runs Endeavour OS. It is now my daily desktop and edit suite.
#dumpfinds #alienware #computerbuild #ewaste #garbage #freeculture #linux #opensource

I'm amused to find that while my laptop does generally make for a terrific machine learning rig, under full load I have to place some wooden sticks underneath it for an airflow gap or my training throughput drops by over 50% as it throttles back dramatically to keep temperatures pegged right at max.