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Can you go on PC Part Picker and build an Arm desktop yet?

• oblio 6y ago
  I haven't tried, I assume not. But aren't the hardware fashions changing rapidly now? Compared to 2005-2020, with x86 everywhere I mentioned.
• moyix 6y ago
  Sure, order a Raspberry Pi 4 and an external USB SSD ;)
  • AceJohnny2 6y ago
    so fun fact: I was recently curious how the RasPi4 compared to my 15-year old Dell Precision M65 (Intel Core Duo T2400). I ran the sysbench CPU test on each, and the M65 trounced the RasPi4, being over 3x as fast in single-core (and about 1.5x as fast in multicore, which makes sense with the T2400 being 2-core to the RasPi's 4-core). So the RasPi4 (a cheap-class SoC) remains slower than a performance-class PC from 14 years prior. Moore's law certainly helped in peformance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar, but if pure perfomance is what you want... I don't think there's anything available to consumers outside of Apple's offerings.
• anfilt 6y ago
  Part of ARMs licensing generally prevents socketed CPU chips.