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That was a bit ironic, indeed, but at least the USB-A works! For what it's worth, the majority of mechanical RGB keyboards and mice are USB-A anyways, so, if y
by cnst 2y ago
That was a bit ironic, indeed, but at least the USB-A works!
For what it's worth, the majority of mechanical RGB keyboards and mice are USB-A anyways, so, if you're fine with a very powerful machine that wouldn't have an internal keyboard support for a few weeks, sounds like a good advice anyways!
- glitchc 2y agoAn ARM64 is "a very powerful computer"? The whole promise with ARM is better thermals and long battery life, not screaming performance. With the thermals/cpu not working, we don't even get that.
- viraptor 2y agoM4 crushing benchmarks and AWS running Graviton 2 would disagree on the idea of "whole premise".
- ksec 2y agoI always knew hardware discussions on HN were below the normal standards. But sometimes I am still surprised at how low it can go.
- simfree 2y agoThe finer grained performance per watt vs silicon cost set in the context of use case is just lost in HN hardware conversations like this that ignore total cost of ownership, vendor politics and such. Everyone is buying the tool that does the job, or building that tool if they want to make that large investment...
- llm_trw 2y agoThere's a difference in cost per flop at home and in a data center. I'm updating my wiring and air conditioning for a 7x5090 workstation because having that power for experiments under the desk is worth the cost (and fire hazard). If I had to build 10,000 of those I'd be banned by NVidia from ever buying their hardware again.
- maayank 2y agoWhat are you doing with the workstation that it’s worth the cost?
- llm_trw 2y agoHigh dimensional computations for time series data in finance.
- maayank 2y agoPrivate algotrading? Nice. May the odds be always at your favor!
- DeathArrow 2y agoIf I'd have those GPUs, I'd use them to run some AI models locally. But since I am not rich and I don't make money from that, I won't buy those GPUs.
- ahoka 2y agoAnd it usually ends with some weird implied conclusion, like “AMD-Intel duopoly bad, Apple monopoly good”.
- DeathArrow 2y agoI wonder what I would discover if I do some archeology and look at HN discussion when Apple used PowerPC CPUs.
- windexh8er 2y agoConsidering HN started in 2007 I don't think your expedition will yield a ton from the heyday of Mac PowerPC. Apple shipped the last PowerPC hardware in 2006.
- DeathArrow 2y agoTo me it seems some people developed some highly political or even religious views on tech. Truth doesn't matter as much as it used to. It's more of "I like the idea behind X, I think X is cool so X should be the best thing ever".
- DeathArrow 2y agoIf you consider Geekbench a good benchmark...
- hulitu 2y agoIt is a start. A wrong one, but still a start. /s
- smolder 2y agoI'm unsure what RGB or a keyboard being mechanical has to do with it being USB-A, or what the relevance is, but yes, there are many USB-A peripherals available.
- cnst 2y agoThe point is that most of the keyboards for sale on Amazon are still USB-A, even the more fancy ones, even though Apple useds tend to portray USB-A as last-century and deprecated. USB mice is still faster and more fluid cursor movement than Bluetooth, too. Also of note, even the most premium keyboards and mice are Full Speed USB 1.1, running at up to 12Mbps. You can verify this yourself through the Apple menu, About This Mac, System Report, USB, and look for your external USB keyboard or mouse. Compare to the USB-C USB4 ports being capable of up to 40000Mbps. And, to be full-featured, they need to support up to 100W, or more, of power input, as well as output in excess of what would be required for a USB-A USB3 5000Mbps or even 10000Mbps port. Which is to say, for the cost of a single USB-C, a manufacturer can easily provide 4 or more USB-A ports, with a change to spare. That would avoid unnecessary adapters and improve compatibility. Not to mention that most of the memory sticks are still USB-A, too, and there's no Fit USB sticks for USB-C at all, only for USB-A. Which means that it's far easier to semi-permanently extend storage of a USB-A laptop than of a USB-C one, which you may want to do to try out a system without messing up with your main Windows installation. It's basically a nab against Apple's decision to remove a useful port, especially on the M4 Mac mini, where they now have USB-C ports that are not fully-featured anymore — the ports at the front have a different spec than the ones at the back, which we all remember now at the time of the announcement, but imagine dealing with it several years down the line, where you'll have to be looking up specs and troubleshooting your things not working the way you expect. They could have easily avoided it by NOT including the 2 slow USB-C ports, and including like 4 USB-A ones instead.
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- cnst 2y ago> The only thing my post was addressing is that you called out RGB mechanical keyboards specifically when there are also plenty of non-RGB and non-mechanical options. It was bizarre, like this reply. The point was that even the more "premium" products are still USB-A, not USB-C. USB-A simply isn't going anywhere. Personally, I find USB-A more useful than HDMI, since HDMI is kind of inferior to USB-C in every possible way. I've tried using a 43" UHD TV as a monitor, since they're as cheap as $149.99 USD brand new, but it had noticeable delay even at 4k@60Hz, and just didn't feel right. The UHD resolution at 43" itself would actually be perfect, since 1080p at 20.5in used to be my fav a few years ago (before QHD at 23" started reaching the sub-$200 range), but, alas, the specs of a proper monitor (brightness, matte, USB-C with PD and a hub) are just better suited for a display compared to a TV, even if the resolution itself may seem ideal.