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Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini by svantana on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:37AM (#19421372)
Interestingly, this new 7" ipad is really good value for money with regards to raw compute. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's possible to buy a new complete computer scoring 11k on geekbench for under $500. This one is $400, with an efficient fanless design and a nice screen as a bonus. If it could run linux, it could potentially be an interesting server solution. That's a first for apple I think, to be the cheapest available performance per dollar. Of course the big caveat is that it's locked into the ios ecosystem...
Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini by jeswin on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:33AM (#19421921)
You could buy a Poco F1 for $285 - which does 8.5k on geekbench. The bonus being that it's also a phone and has an open ecosystem (with an official LineageOS port).