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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by bhouston on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:57PM (#22016881)
Raspberry PI 4 runs with 1 4k monitor pretty well and has audio and you can attach peripherals.

It is desktop like.

Arm desktops are just single board computers. Why? Because that is all you need.

If you want to assemble overprice parts yourself to get marginal benefits stick with x86.

The truth is the market for desktops even in the x86 market has shrunk considerably because there are few benefits except if you are rendering and even then you should be using cloud compute in that case.

Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by Jonnax on Saturday January 11, 2020 @01:30AM (#22018533)
If I'm rendering, I should use cloud computing?

Like an artist is supposed to use a remote desktop to do 3D modelling? Or an engineer doing CAD? Or a video editor creating 4k video?

There are a lot of professionals that need powerful computers. Not everyone just needs a text editor to write their SaaS application.

Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by jdietrich on Saturday January 11, 2020 @04:12AM (#22019012)
>If I'm rendering, I should use cloud computing?

Like an artist is supposed to use a remote desktop to do 3D modelling? Or an engineer doing CAD? Or a video editor creating 4k video?

Yes. High-end workstations are effectively obsolete for professionals rather than prosumers, it's just taking some IT departments a while to catch on. All those workloads are highly bursty and involve substantial collaboration, which makes virtualization a natural fit. I haven't tested and wouldn't necessarily recommend a Raspberry Pi as a client terminal, but it just doesn't make sense any more to put a really powerful machine under everyone's desk rather than having a rackload of servers as a pooled resource.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/quadro-vdw...