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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by jhgb on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:31PM (#28322880)
It seems to be setting price records with $750. Ugh. I mean, I get the reasons, but I'd probably rather build a cluster of 8GB RPi4's. For $750, it better be that X1/N1.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by accountofme on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:28AM (#28325790)
This also supports ecc memory...
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by joezydeco on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:15AM (#28326812)
And doesn't need to boot off of SD cards.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by jhgb on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:23PM (#28331953)
Everything boots off of something. Even netboot needs firmware which is on some kind of flash memory anyway.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by joezydeco on Saturday August 28, 2021 @11:10AM (#28338653)
Some things are more reliable and fail safe than others. SD would not rank high on that list and that's not even talking about the cheap mechanical connector involved.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:36AM (#28327629)
And doesn't keep important files on SD cards...
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by jhgb on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:21PM (#28331921)
So do Ryzens, for much less money per unit of performance.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:35AM (#28327622)
We discussed a couple options in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299204

Unfortunately, having 4 4-core nodes will not make Slack or Chrome any faster.

Unless you run each on a separate node and pipe the X output to your node.

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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by jhgb on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:20PM (#28331913)
True, but I'm not quite sure why I'd be running either of those on this.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:44PM (#28332777)
It’s a workstation after all. You run workstationish stuff.
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