I'm ambivalent about the necessity of ECC in practice. Especially since the internal pathways in CPUs already have it, and with DDR5 the DIMMs also have it, at

I'm ambivalent about the necessity of ECC in practice. Especially since the internal pathways in CPUs already have it, and with DDR5 the DIMMs also have it, at least internally. So that only leaves the path between RAM and CPU unprotected. It would be nice to have, but maybe only to be able to feel good about it. Depending on airflow, temperatures, quality of the contacts/slots/soldering, board layout, quality and (more and more so with ever larger units on smaller process nodes) amount of RAM raising the probability of errors. Regarding Lenovos tinies, I have several (dozen) M910q t(inies) with either core i5-7500t or core i7-7700t with 32GB (non-ECC)in use across my two homes, and am very pleased with them. They run everything I've thrown at them without any errors. Giving the most clean kernel-bootlogs ever! Cool&silent but still fast. Even most exotic stuff like Genode. Really flawlessly working S3 (suspend to RAM) every time without exception, btw. Can't tell for contemporary Windows, though, but don't care because no need. Somthing like coreboot with the quality, correctness and functionality of their UEFI on cheap CWWK-like stuff would be a dream come true ;-)