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There is a plethora of powerful ARM processors for dirt cheap prices. The market is flooded with ~50$ 64bit multicore ARM boards that run Linux. In fact, there
by armitron 6y ago
There is a plethora of powerful ARM processors for dirt cheap prices. The market is flooded with ~50$ 64bit multicore ARM boards that run Linux. In fact, there are no x86 equivalents, so you're basically describing the opposite of what's actually the case.
- icedchai 6y agoRaspberry Pi's? Pine64's? I have many of these devices. These are fun to play around with, but are no replacement for a modern x86-64 system.
- armitron 6y agoA replacement for modern x86-64 system is definitely not what the comment I replied to described, even though a lot of these ARM boards certainly apply, depending on subset of tasks needed. Here is one example of what you get for 50 dollars: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4/ https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4/ This is a quadcore 2GHz 64bit board that can run Android / Ubuntu 20 / Wayland / WebGL / Linux Kernel 5.4 / Vulkan.
- makomk 6y agoThe comment you're replying to was asking for something better than a smartphone; this is worse. It has four of the lower-power and lower-performance Cortex-A55 cores; typically in a smartphone those would be paired with several higher-performance Cortex-A75 cores, but the board in question doesn't have those. This is fairly typical for Pi-style boards.
- icedchai 6y agoYes, this is exactly what I mean. When I said "modern x86-64", "modern" meant anything in the past 4 to 6 years. The average developer would be better off buying a used laptop with an older Core i7, and putting a new SSD into it.