Questions for 12/04?

<p>Got a question on Surface reliablity and secondly that one feature that Xbox waited for from AMD.</p><p><br></p><p>Firstly on surface reliability. I've had to RMA my Surface Book 2 over the past 2 years of owning it, Microsoft has honoured the 2 year warranty (yay Europe) and offered a replacement device every time, having been through it 4 times.</p><p><br></p><p>The problem was image retention / screen burn-in when the screen is on for an hour or two on static content, like a youtube video page or the browser tabs and task bar. </p><p><br></p><p>According to reddit the image retention issue only occurs specifically with the display panel used in all Book 2 15inch. Microsoft post-warranty doesn't want to admit this is quality control issue and doesn't give an inch (second time, first was with the surface headphones, where there are many people on reddit who's headbands have snapped in the same spot). </p><p><br></p><p>During your long term review of the Book 2 15 inch (or Book 3) ,did you find this image ghosting issue on your display or seen it in on newer surface models like the Book 3.</p><p><br></p><p>This quality control issue makes me weary of spending that much money on a surface product again, especially if they keep using these difficult to repair model designs (like with Pro 8 and Book 3). If you ever time meet the surface team again, could you politely grill them on their have quality control issues and to take common reddit issues into account instead of having customer support treating us as irresponsible customers post-warranty.</p><p><br></p><p>Secondly, (on a lighter note), I looked back at the RDNA2 GPU reveal and was the only feature that was in the DX12 + AMD FidelityFX slide that wasn't mentioned before in any Xbox Series X/S tech demonstration and that is ML Super Resolution (AMD's version of DLSS). I looked around and Microsoft <a href="https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/10/28/a-closer-look-at-how-xbox-series-xs-integrates-full-amd-rdna-2-architecture/&quot; target="_blank">made a blog post about it</a> , that the RDNA chip in the consoles has ML accelerators but I didn't see anyone pick up this story. </p><p><br></p><p>Considering the issues series S faces with performance and requiring it to drop to lower resolutions to maintain framerate, it seems like the perfect use case where DLSS/MLSS can be used to give higher visual fidelity upscale while rendering at a lower internal resolution. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>