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This thing is a fast little computer. No it's not Apple M1 quick but it's only about 20% slower and you can't run Windows natively on an M1. (And it has a nicer
by lproven 4y ago
This thing is a fast little computer. No it's not Apple M1 quick but it's only about 20% slower and you can't run Windows natively on an M1. (And it has a nicer pair of pointing devices than any Apple laptop.)
RISC-V is dog slow. The absolutely top-end RISC-V kit is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 was a decade ago, and the Pi3 was £25 and it had 4 cores, and it can run about 6-7 OSes natively. Not Linux distros, different OSes: Linux, all the BSDs, Plan 9, Inferno, RISC OS.
If you were to buy one of these things -- and I wrote the review and I am not recommending it, not at this price -- you would probably wear it out and resell it off and buy the next gen device, and wear that one out in turn -- before any RISC-V laptop with this kind of performance comes on the market at any price.
Don't kid yourself.