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Any reason not to use my 13 as my only PC? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just got my 13 with the 7840 and I'm realizing that even the integrated GPU is more powerful than the one in my old PC, which has an i7 4790k and a GTX 970.

Is there any reason I shouldn't just sell that relic and just run the Framework docked at home? I lose a little desk space, but I'm failing to see why I should keep using this desktop.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You can re-purpose the desktop for many more use cases than even a Framework laptop. Look at the r/HomeServer subreddit for more examples. Some include using it still as a gaming system with even a $200 GPU upgrade (like an RX 6600), a media server with some inexpensive hard drives, a home server running backups or services such as pi-hole, or just as a system to experiment with. I have a desktop with a Ryzen 5 3400G and 2 PCIe x16 slots that I would use to experiment with PCIe passthrough. That experience would have been far more difficult with a laptop due to the proprietary configurations used for laptop motherboards, and the difficulty in managing screen outputs even on a laptop with two GPUs.

My point is that even if the Framework laptop is faster in certain workloads for you, this can easily be alleviated with an upgrade to some of the desktop's components. Even without an upgrade, there are many possibilities for you to still use your desktop which, honestly, still has decent components for a variety of use cases. I'd love to use that system as an emulation PC.