melfie@lemy.lol 1 week ago
Meanwhile, I just got a cooling pad for my $800 laptop with a RTX 4060 that makes it bulkier and heavier, but 20C cooler when doing Blender renders. The sleek $3000 MacBook Pro I got from work would only render at half the speed, though it wouldn’t need the cooling pad. As long as I can work from the sofa or bed on a reasonably powerful machine, it’s not worth almost quadrupole the price for thinner and lighter, especially with less muscle.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Have you looked into streaming from a desktop? I’m using sunshine/moonlight to stream my video editor from gaming PC to Thinkpad and it works really well! The quality and responsiveness is really good these days to the point where it’s hard to even tell it’s a stream.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
When you say stream you mean remote desktop, right?
Kissaki@feddit.org 6 days ago
The functionally, not the tech, yes. Sunshine and moonlight is a more performant alternative to native remote desktop (rdp).
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I meant remote desktop generically rather than RDP. Is sunshine & moonlight just another alternative to VNC (except better performer?).
87Six@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
This is the way
You get all the power of a PC. There’s literally no better way to work on the go, and you can buy the cheapest little laptop known to man.
melfie@lemy.lol 6 days ago
I’ve used them quite a lot to stream games from a PC to a Steam Deck and a Nvidia Shield and agreed that the 2 projects are fantastic.