Has anyone added a cable extender to a laptop WiFi card?
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I've never met a forgiving engine in my entire life!
Forgiving people... yes, engines never.
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Because you need at least a Repairman Certificate to do your own maintenance, mostly applies to kit builds there is less issue with poor methodology. With all aluminium you have even thermal expansion and a lot less gasket etc. headaches.
Though, you are going to want a few jigs and torque tools, anybody who can change a car timing belt and understands motorbike engines can handle aircraft.
Well I can report that the M.2 SDD has a heat sink and is not exceeding 60C under the heaviest load. The concern raised by a reviewer was because he added his own SSD sans sink.
Only snag is I can't get X-plane 12 to launch, the thing reboots immediately when the world loads. I increased the bios setting to 2GB NVRAM, the game's minimum and also max TPM, but I doubt 12 can run with a laptop chip anyway, needs a proper GPU.
It works fine with X-plane 11 at 30+FPS 1080p which is all I need.
Only snag is I can't get X-plane 12 to launch, the thing reboots immediately when the world loads. I increased the bios setting to 2GB NVRAM, the game's minimum and also max TPM, but I doubt 12 can run with a laptop chip anyway, needs a proper GPU.
It works fine with X-plane 11 at 30+FPS 1080p which is all I need.
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So @Tuxan... any more updates? Is it everything you expected? Figure out a way to get x-plane 12 working? Let us know.
Yes, I figured out the cause of the crash, if you set the thermal limit to anything higher than 15W it is very unstable and switches off under load, especially if anything like a USB C powered portable monitor is plugged in taking additional watts.
In theory this 15W setting should make it run very poorly but actually, oddly, there is very little difference in Cinebench results and it is very cool running. I was doing some 4k/60FPS Adobe Premier Pro editing earlier and can't complain about performance.
Its certainly not comparable to a full gaming desktop GPU, only Vega 8 on-chip laptop GPU hardware, but at 1080p it is usable with X 12, X Plane 11 is obviously higher framerate.
Happy, certainly for the price. My old i7 laptop was good in 2018 but I needed a refresh.
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