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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by Koshkin on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:59PM (#22016065)
Also, those things suffer from the same issues as those pointed out in the OP: a server motherboard crammed into a desktop case; the built-in VGA graphics comes from the integrated "server management engine", limited hardware support/driver availability, etc. Lots of fun to be had for lots of money!
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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by gigatexal on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:30PM (#22016320)
And the benchmarks I saw show you paying much much more for it than for x86 but get far less perf in return.
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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by nine_k on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:18PM (#22017612)
You pay also for the fact that everything is open, down to the microcode loader. No closed management engine, no firmware blobs.
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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by loeg on Friday January 10, 2020 @08:04PM (#22017258)
Yeah. My earlier comment should have read "4x the cost for the same performance."
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