https://liliputing.com/2020/08/lilbits-microsoft-brings-new-windows-subsystem...

One of the most surprising things Microsoft did when the company introduced Windows 10 was to include a Windows Subsystem for Linux, which allows users to install Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux distributions and run them within Windows.

The optional feature lets you open up a terminal window and run Linux commands without the need to reboot, switch computers, or launch a full virtual machine using software like VirtualBox.

This year the Windows Subsystem for Linux got faster with the launch of WSL 2, which brings speedier file system performance, among other things. But not everyone is ready to update to the latest version of Windows 10 — so Microsoft has announced it’s making WSL 2 available for Windows 10 versions 1903 and 1909.

That could come as good news for enterprise users or anyone else who may want to take things slowly when it comes to major operating system upgrades… but who would like speedier performance when running Linux commands within Windows.



Ubuntu is starting to act like it considers itself a proper sub-set of Windows now-a-days.   Microsoft flat relies on Linux in general for a lot of different forms of functionality now, between the Google browser functions and all the various pieces of Linux that MS has sucked up you can see where MS is going as they discontinue piece after piece of the old MS product and shut down and Linux replace these functions by updating them at night.  

MS intends to charge you a LOT of money over the years to repackage other people's stuff for you to use as "MS Windows 365".

Hey, enjoy defragging your hard drive and fighting your nightly update installations and doing your bi-weekly anti-virus scans .......    


REMEMBER, running plain pure Linux Mint Mate is faster by a lot.  

Carrying all the historical MS freight up on your shoulders is quite a load and it makes everything (including you) run slower ........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTzUAdUx3T4      it is a YouTube, click on it


Today, we take a look at what you can do with a Raspberry Pi 4 using the TWISTER alternate operating systems (yes, there is more than one Apple based OS clone look-a-like  that is able to be switched between MAC OS types at will that is built into this particular Raspberry Pi 4 OS).

This alternate does MAC for those who think they would like to try a MAC OS clone.   What struck me was how complete the clone was and how FAST it ran on the Raspberry Pi 4.

We get all get stuck on trying to use Windows for comparisons ---- and Windows is always notably slow on a Pi.  

MAC is much faster anyway, so the Pi cone for MAC is much much faster --- it looks pretty useable actually.

WHY IS THIS WORTH WATCHING?    You need to expand your mind as far as MAC and Raspberry Pi 4 goes ......  this TWISTER stuff is approaching the realm of full Mac on PC functionality.


Everything you see here is actually Linux showing the facade of something else -- Linux and Mac are very close to each other anyway so this level of speed and functionality should not be a surprise to anybody.  What surprised me was the response speed and performance coming off of just 4 each A-72 style Amlogic cores .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA

Here is an old Intel fanboy named Linus who has converted to being an AMD fan ---- why?  Because he simply had to.   Inescapable hard facts drove him to it.



Here is another somewhat older fact based analysis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V3uB12mRrU


Take one of these as a temporary "antidote pill" for when you get blindsided by some blatantly biased Intel pre-release propaganda.

Then, you will need to wait a day or five until the non-intel people can weigh in on the specific dose of Intel BS you were just fed by Intel Marketing.


REMEMBER, nobody has seen the actual hardware yet --- just some Intel patronage "testing reports" from little bitty paid shill companies (or from some really stupid YouTube people who are just reading Intel spec sheets and reporting it as news, some of which aren't even getting paid by Intel ---- they are just so stupid they actually believe Intel's propaganda as written).

https://liliputing.com/2020/09/qualcomm-snapdragon-8cx-gen-2-5g-is-designed-f...





According to Qualcomm, its new chip can power fanless PCs with more than 25 hours of battery life, while offering “up to 50% greater total system performance than the competition” according to the company’s own internal testing.





Qualcomm says compared to an unspecified 10th-gen Intel Core i5 processor running at 15 watts, its 7 watt Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G chip offers up to 18-percent better performance and up to 39-percent better efficiency.

Things look even better for Qualcomm when the company pits its chip against a 7 watt Intel Core i5 chip with Hybrid Cores (most likely a Lakefield processor). In that case, Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G is up to 51-percent faster and up to 58-percent more efficient.
Qualcomm has also updated the AI engine from Hexagon 685 to Hexagon 690, which could bring a small performance boost in some tasks.

Both the Snapdragon 8cx 5G and the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G feature:

8-core Qualcomm Kryo 495 processors
8-channel LPDDR4x RAM
Support for NVMe and UFS 3.0 storage
Qualcomm Adreno 680 Extreme graphics
Qualcomm
Qualcomm Spectra 390 image signal processors (support for 32MP single cameras or 16MP dual cameras)
Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 5G modems (mmWave and sub-6GHz support)
Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 LTE modems
Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ support
The company says the first devices with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G chip should ship in late 2020 and if you’re wondering what they’ll look like, Acer’s got you covered. The company’s upcoming Acer Spin 7 (SP71) is the first PC announced to feature the new chip.



Qualcomm is not really seen as actually leading any industry wide groups lately, but they do point out that when you want to talk quiet & light (fanless) laptops (the ones that last well over a whole day between charges) Qualcomm is the current technology leader.

Apple and Qualcomm are both using modified versions of ARM Cortex N-1 cores so ARM is in the technological center of the low power high performance side of things.    

AMD is using some ARM technology as well, but AMD has reworked theirs significantly over towards the x86 side of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFHBgb9SY1Y


Ok .......   Reviewers are beginning to post debunks of Intel's Tiger Lake smoke and mirrors.

You can watch while this while the guy goes over various Intel BS smoke items and the inverse reflections of the same things that are also being claimed by Intel as "yet another Intel victory".    

He stumbles a lot over what he is trying to say because it is all so confusing and obtuse, but that is what is going on in reality with Tiger Lake's BIG Progress.

Point was made by the dude that Intel was repeatedly bashing AMD as being "an imitator"  when actually the opposite is true.   Intel is well behind AMD and Intel is the one imitating AMD's advancements and is actually cheating to do it.

     ...... once AMD starts using all these cute AI calls in their own test runs, only then will AMD be acting as an Intel imitator.

Once you back out Intel's much greater use of AI background functions (support for these calls were just recently installed in the benchmark's support libraries by Intel) then all Intel has in Tiger Lake apart from AI is a WHOLE LOT of hot air and PR and advertising.



Intel makes a lot of noise about "not using benchmarks" ---- instead they use AI calls to their recently installed background library resources to greatly speed up the execution of SOME of the old benchmark function items that they say they are not using ......  somewhat confusing, right ???



Point being proven is that the AI being actually used is very very fast (but the phone boys have known this for years and them phone boys can cheat much better than Intel can, trust me on that one).

I also dis-liked the fact that Intel has just jumbled up all their existing chip naming nomenclatures on all their old chipsets so they can now present an old existing 14nm product as being a brand new product that is "a whole lot faster now" because the cheating AI metrics calls make it appear that way.

In short, AMD is doing all their stuff by the rule book and actually is using increased hardware speed to make the real progress that they show, while Intel has blown so much AI smoke up everyone's arse that by now all the reviewers are simply choking on the smoke as they burp it up .......

Yes, AI is neat, but Intel's saying their use of new AI calls "is your Tiger Lake processor being faster" is simply false logic --- well, actually that's just Intel lying out their arse a bit, lying yet again.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3573639/why-intels-tiger-lake-cpus-will-make-...



How it can be that two Intel 11th-gen Tiger Lake notebook PCs, with exactly the same chip inside, can offer performance that differs by up to 37 percent? And more importantly, how can you, the buyer, tell the difference?

The short answer is:   You can’t.       An unfortunate side effect of how Intel develops processors like Tiger Lake will make it more difficult for consumers to determine the actual performance of a laptop just by reading a list of its features, and it will probably get harder over time.

The problem is that Intel is designing mobile microprocessors like Tiger Lake to allow laptop makers greater flexibility in how they choose to “clock” them, or at what frequency they’re assigned to run. A laptop that uses a specific processor could run 37 percent faster than a second laptop that includes exactly the same chip, Intel executives say.

That means laptop buyers will have to look harder at actual performance reviews with comparative data to understand what they're getting.

The problem actually cropped up earlier, as Intel moved into its prior (10th-gen) Ice Lake chips. But Intel executives highlighted it during its Tiger Lake launch as something to watch out for.         How, you ask?   By downplaying it and then obliquely lying about it .....



So ....... Intel is saying that the laptop housing's total heat removing capacity determines everything about its builder's relative performance choices compared to AMD based units that are simply much cooler running ????    

That Intel's HEAT shutdown limits are the builder's choices when he sets the Intel processor's maximum output level for all time.     Once picked by the builder, the shutdown limits remain forever.    

Next, during the same run of the same model laptops the different machines can get hot differently, so they each can have different limits set for them individually.


      ...... so, are they saying that some Tiger Lake machines are lemons and will always suck?


So, Tiger Lake runs just that hot in normal day to day use, huh?

Folks are now thinking that a Tiger Lake Intel based laptop machine's "watt rating" has more to do with the laptop housings ability to dump heat based upon this new understanding of "watts as heat dumped"  -----  and not any "normally rated" Tiger Lake power usage can be expected to play across the board.

And we are also sensing a great deal of in processor performance variation is going on with Intel's 10nm Tiger Lake product.   Both a huge potential run-to-run variation and a quite large  ~40%~  level variation part to part within the same wafer.
 
Intel has also used AI selectively to speed up certain functions used in the common benchmark tests, then has reported this as "increases in processor throughput".   It is not, it is hidden use of AI that was in essence staged since Intel controls many of the background x86 libraries that all softwares utilize.   It is interesting that these speed ups only work for certain Intel machines since Intel does not want competitors to look good, just them.

WHY HAS INTEL PAINTED THEMSELVES INTO THIS NETWORK OF LIES ????

Watch the video below again and realize that Intel CANNOT COMPETE with AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile processors at any given cross over level.   That the midrange AMD mobile unit can kick the ass of a full bore i9 Intel processor running in a specialty cases that has TWO FULL SIZED DESKTOP CASE FANS TUCKED INTO THE LAPTOP CASE (yes you have to slide the laptop case open laterally to expose the two giant fans and you have to hit a special turbo switch to spin the fans up and get the thing running up at full speed).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA     ......  it is a YouTube, so click on it



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Let's be charitable and simply say that these are all just Tiger Lake PRE-PRODUCTION teething problems.

But this litany gives you a hint why the full production of introduction laptop units have now been delayed until October-November.


Some of these issues need fixing before you go make 10's of thousands of machines that you will then need to perform expensive reworks upon ......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp3xW4uncbk     it is not a long video  ...... just watch it



Back in May of this year, some people who remember the several times in the past when Intel got just plain "nasty acting" during a short period of time when they WERE NOT COMPETITIVE and Intel had actually let their black bag boys go off on a little rampage.

Intel was specifically warned in May against the sort of bad black bag stuff that is currently going on with Tiger Lake introduction.

Earlier this year (in May) Intel got WARNED not to do this sort of stuff since Intel got so non-competitive early this year and it was sensed that another black bag incursion was coming as the massive angry flashback from the industry on a TOTAL LOSS OF TRUST  on two past occasions was SO severe that it took Intel literally YEARS and YEARS of proper behavior (and a management change) to get that trust back again.

Intel still hasn't recovered their image from the huge freon cooled mainframe motherboard that was actually running the test software down in the soundproofed enclosure that was hidden under the skirted display table during the CES show 2 years ago.



Do you think it strange that pundits are actually WARNING Intel right now to restrain their black bag boys for Intel's own good?


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So far to be a Tiger Lake "winner" for Intel you have to have a laptop with excellent heat dispersion construction, a fully functional FAST Tiger Lake chipset (some aren't so completely fully functional NOR are they all specially selected to be EVO speed level fast).  

You will also need a really really fast internet connection to allow the current as of today Intel tweeked libraries fast and full access during the testing runs and most importantly you need to only use the exact copies of the exact benchmarks that Intel "approves" (the ones that they have tweeked with to interface with the libraries to enable a lot of biased AI secret usage (used just during the testing of the Intel processor of course, but definitely not during the competition's test runs).

Watch out for gross hyperclocking during the Intel test runs .......   i.e. watch out for several seconds of 80 watt power draw (note that your oversized laptop power supply has to be always plugged into the machine if you want Intel to really shine test after test, or you can just run it off the battery if you want a little more FAIRNESS injected into the mixture.

Intel is already saying "You can't accurately predict the performance of a Tiger Lake laptop as it changes according to thermals reported from the motherboard" to give them the big out they will start needing in a couple of weeks.

There will be more niggling little items discovered while the reviewers are actually running these comparisons and the pundits will quickly show us which pundits are in Intel's pocket and which ones are not.

Tame Intel paid reviewers are pushing the company sponsored viewpoint that Intel wants you indoctrinated to accept ----- that you Can Never Really Know what you have bought because Intel Tiger Lake always reacts differently to different situations.   They want you to BELIEVE Tiger Lake is always superior and to think that "benchmarking" is obsolete in the Tiger Lake era.



If you are mullet enough to buy into this thinking, then you deserve the Intel processor that you just paid MORE FOR, and are going to get less from.

     ....... yeah, folks are still getting sorta hot at Intel for their Black Bag BS ........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaiqcjf0bs&t=435s


Why show this again?   It is the first time Intel attempted to ring in tuned AI usage as an illicit  "processor performance boost" and reported it as "processor advancements".

Ring it forward 6 months and you can see the current Tiger Lake Black Bag tricks shown in light of their origins.

When this video was filmed, they did not understand completely what Intel was doing with AI, just that this processor performed EXACTLY like the last one in lots of tests, but showed better results on the AI tweeked benchmarks that were approved by Intel.  

It was a curiosity and a puzzlement .....  Intel cheating was suspected, but since AMD Threadripper so totally overwrapped it in the next few weeks the entire thing went into the "past history, water over the dam" trash bin.

I predict that the first real production unit shipments of Tiger Lake will make up a nice "tear Intel a new one" moment from the non-Intel computer press and then will be quickly swept off the stage by Intel's backing off the Black Bag Boys bogus pronouncements and finally by AMD finally getting irritated and releasing a REAL product to "threadripper" it with lots of real raw performance that Intel can't cheat enough to overcome.