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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by dagw on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:03AM (#31476084)
Also there is more to a laptop than just its CPU. Doesn't matter how great the Ryzen processor is if they can't get laptop manufacturers to put them into great laptops.
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Re:The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021) by grw_ on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:09AM (#31476116)
GP is proposing using Macbook as thin client to Ryzen build server. Laptop cpu is never loaded hence 2 day battery life, performance is better on anything benefiting from significant parallelization. I use same workflow with 5950X[0], works great.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax101

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