4 ms·

OP's requirements pretty much uniquely match what Asahi on a desktop M2 provides -- heavy compute, not heavy graphics, no onboard speakers, one big display, no

OP's requirements pretty much uniquely match what Asahi on a desktop M2 provides -- heavy compute, not heavy graphics, no onboard speakers, one big display, no webcam/touch-id, etc. It sounds like if you're developing services hosted in a cloud, Asahi Linux is a great fit for a desktop Mac.

galangalalgol 4y ago
Do they ever sell old graviton machines as salvage? Arenithey on revision 3 now? I'd like one of those.
- da768 4y ago
  You can find the Annapurna Labs AL73400 (Graviton 1st gen) in some devices, but I'm not sure you can easily install your own OS.
  - tecleandor 4y ago
    Precisely today, given the lack of SBCs stock and the price rises, I was checking small routers as options. I.e., a basic mikrotik router is 30 something euros, and in some models it supports OpenWRT. Some of their more powerful routers have a bunch of ARM cores (no video out, though) and I think I've seen people using OpenWRT there. For a while they were using Annapurna Labs CPUs, and I've seen that in some high end Netgear wireless routers from 2017, and I see people selling those with OpenWRT on eBay. I don't know their performance, but I'd like to try that instead for a mini server instead of an expensive and virtually inexistent RPi. There goes a list of routers with Annapurna Labs processors, I'll see tomorrow if I find around some OpenWRT builds for them. https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs
- duskwuff 4y ago
  Not that I'm aware of. I'd be surprised if those machines were even usable outside Amazon's datacenter; they're likely to lack a lot of standard interfaces (certainly no display output, probably no Ethernet, USB, SATA, or PCIe, possibly no 120/240V AC input).
  - metadat 4y ago
    This was news to me. Interesting reading: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiplets-and https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiple...
- sofixa 4y ago
  > Do they ever sell old graviton machines as salvage? Considering modern AWS hardware relies heavily on Nitro, their dedicated chips offloading networking and storage, it's unlikely Graviton CPUs would easily work outside of AWS' environment.

galangalalgol 4y ago

Do they ever sell old graviton machines as salvage? Arenithey on revision 3 now? I'd like one of those.

da768 4y ago
You can find the Annapurna Labs AL73400 (Graviton 1st gen) in some devices, but I'm not sure you can easily install your own OS.
- tecleandor 4y ago
  Precisely today, given the lack of SBCs stock and the price rises, I was checking small routers as options. I.e., a basic mikrotik router is 30 something euros, and in some models it supports OpenWRT. Some of their more powerful routers have a bunch of ARM cores (no video out, though) and I think I've seen people using OpenWRT there. For a while they were using Annapurna Labs CPUs, and I've seen that in some high end Netgear wireless routers from 2017, and I see people selling those with OpenWRT on eBay. I don't know their performance, but I'd like to try that instead for a mini server instead of an expensive and virtually inexistent RPi. There goes a list of routers with Annapurna Labs processors, I'll see tomorrow if I find around some OpenWRT builds for them. https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/Annapurna_Labs
duskwuff 4y ago
Not that I'm aware of. I'd be surprised if those machines were even usable outside Amazon's datacenter; they're likely to lack a lot of standard interfaces (certainly no display output, probably no Ethernet, USB, SATA, or PCIe, possibly no 120/240V AC input).
- metadat 4y ago
  This was news to me. Interesting reading: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiplets-and https://www.semianalysis.com/p/amazon-graviton-3-uses-chiple...
sofixa 4y ago
> Do they ever sell old graviton machines as salvage? Considering modern AWS hardware relies heavily on Nitro, their dedicated chips offloading networking and storage, it's unlikely Graviton CPUs would easily work outside of AWS' environment.