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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by drewg123 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:41PM (#28323381)
Well, you can get an M1 Mac Mini for about the same price.

A 4-core VM running on my M1 MBP builds stuff nearly as fast as a bare-metal 64-core Ampere EMAG. So I'm guessing the M1 would run circles around 16 A72s..

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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by CameronNemo on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:20PM (#28323950)
An M1 Mac mini maxes out at 8 GB of RAM, no?
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by wmf on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:32PM (#28324024)
No, 16 GB.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86 by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:18AM (#28327442)
I think a 100 MHz Pentium with sufficient memory can run circles around a swapping M1 ;-)
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