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Does anyone have a link to the device please? I opened the link in the post, but it wanted to share my data with hundreds of partners 👎

This article seems unnecessarily dismissive. Just tell me about the product I'll find a use for it.

It is so cool I want to get it despite having absolutely nothing I could possibly use it for.

Oh neat!

Also NVidia and Intel have been providing subpar hardware to Apple for years. There was tremendous incentive for Apple to have the entire stack under their own control. Microsoft doesn’t give a flying fuck about hardware as long as enterprises keep buying Office subscriptions.

Tbf, Apple has switched cpu architectures a few times, so they've got some decent experience porting and rewriting everything. And also their most popular devices were already running arm for over a decade when they switched on PC.

We've had people declaring the impending ascent of Arm or RISC-V for years now, and the market hasn't budged.

That has more to do with Microsoft and Qualcomm’s ineptitude.

Apple laptops are great because they’re just normal PCs that have great battery life. Also, they have full performance with or without a power cord.

They tried with that X86S and ended up scraping it.

That is some big talk for a platform that still comes out of reset into 8086-compatible real mode.

Your comment made me do the math. I'm starting to question the validity of this product as written in the article. This is a house fire waiting to happen on a C19 plug or it will never reach half of the 3000w that it says it will do.

You can run one of these in the UK on a 13A fuse, since our domestic supply is 230V. That's the most allowed on a single plug, though.

The more common household items that use 13A fuses are kettles and "three bar electric fires", which should let you know how much heat these fuckers are going to be pumping into your room. Going to be able to heat a large room in winter when this thing is flat out.

This requires a 20 amp circuit. So GPU manufacturers are going to start forcing upgrades to circuit breaker boxes/house wiring to keep up with the GPU arms race.

Edit: i wasnt prepared to do math that early in the morning. This requires so much electricity, i am starting to think it runs off of two c19 plugs in different 20 amp circuits at 110v. 16amps (the 80% safety threshold of a 20a circuit) can only deliver 1760 watts of electricity. 16a*110v=1760w.

So this either requires a 30a-220v circuit for a fucking dryer or this is bollocks. Apparently c19s can do up to 250v at 20amps so 16a*220v=3520w. People this is nuts!

4x or more 3090s is a pretty popular homelab setup, heh. I've seen janky ones with like 7 mixed 3090s/3060s. This actually makes some sense.

It's absolutely bonkers that AMD/Intel won't just sell 'normal' folks tons of VRAM on GPUs instead, but, well... they don't want money I guess. And of course Nvidia's not going to do it.

I went from a TX750 V1 (~2009?) that never died to my current SFX unit that's... never died. Did I just get lucky?

I'm still rocking my ax1200 from my 5820k / dual 6970 build from ~ 15 years ago. Replaced the fan last year and it's still chugging away powering one of the machines in my rack.

Such a decent piece of hardware, sure the load it sees now are minimal compared to a 4.5GHz 22nm CPU + two overclocked GPUs but outside of the fan it's never missed a beat.

I dunno. Maybe.

After replacing my power supply every three to four years I upgraded to a 1000w supply. Totally excessive to my needs, and it's been running well for fifteen years now.

Maybe because of better components, maybe because it's so under loaded. In any event, it's been an investment that's paid off.

Hard to see that happening with one this price but maybe for some power users!

Expensive power supply, or cheap welder? 😄

That's a whole lot of melted plastic to wait for.

When you need that much power, you would be better off with a workstation or server chassis that has multiple power supplies.

Never heard of the Banana Pi, very cool.

All interesting points.

I suppose the use-case for stuff like this is always-on devices that have requirements for intermittent (and short) periods of max performance.

One the one hand, an 8 core ARM chip with all E cores interests me from a "maybe this can be passively cooled, but have enough horsepower to be useful" standpoint.

On the other hand, looks like it's made on a 22nm process, so while cost will hopefully be low, power savings will be limited.

On the third hand, the A55 is a 2017 core, and I'm getting really tired of ARM's strategy of dribbling out designs at an absolutely glacial pace to the lower end of the market.

Thank you @sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works

I can't navigate on the https://www.zimaspace.com/ it such a mess

The odroid-h4 seem good. I'll add it to my list.

Thank you @BrikoX@lemmy.zip

Unfortunately the Rock Pi X is discontinued.

Due to part shortage, we have unfortunately discontinued ROCK Pi X in 2022.

For the Atomic PI I found no where to order it..

But I'll bookmark https://hackerboards.com/ !