I am a ML/software engineeer at the Descartes Systems Group, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I used to work on computer vision problems in the field of digital pathology. Previously, I completed a BSc in Mathematical Physics at the University of Waterloo.
I will be posting things and projects that I am working on or find interesting here from time to time.
New year, new me, new blog topic?
Unfortunately not.
I switched to a Framework 16 after the Zephyrus G15 featured in my previous article fell victim to interrupt storms due to a dying USB-C controller.
It’s a good laptop - outperforms my G15 while exceeding the already-great battery life, and Modern Standby sleep actually works. It’s a little bulkier, but I used to carry around an Asus G750, so the FW16 feels like a netbook in comparison.
I’ve been using the Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 as my daily driver for a few years now. Laptops (gaming laptops especially) pack a lot of heat-generating components in a small and thin space, where the only airflow comes from the small blower fans in the system. In the case of the Zephyrus G15, there’s approximately 120 Watts of output, with 80W-100W going to the GPU and the rest going to the CPU. The cooling systems built into these things are pretty impressive considering the severe lack of thermal mass compared to desktop systems (Noctua’s NH-D15 cooler weighs half of the Zephyrus G15 at 980g without its fan, and that’s just a CPU cooler - the laptop has to cool the GPU as well with that weight, there’s the chassis, battery etc.).