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the M1 Chip are we left with obsolete server farms
NiHaoMike:
Keep in mind that Apple is not the only manufacturer of high performance ARM chips. There are quite a few ARM chips specifically designed for servers.
One area where hobbyists are really interested in efficiency is cryptocurrency mining. Yet I'm not aware of anyone building mining clusters out of M1s, I suspect that's due to a combination of the M1 costing more per performance than really cheap smartphones, the ARM mined coins being limited by more factors than just raw CPU performance, and the general decline of those ARM mined coins.
On a test mining Monero, the M1 only managed to meet the efficiency of a Ryzen 9 that's one process node behind. I suspect that's because it's optimized for mostly light load with occasional bursts.
https://cryptoage.com/en/2309-apple-m1-processor-tested-in-mining-monero-cryptocurrency.html
tszaboo:
Yes, the M1 is good. Or software developers are bad, take your pick.
They could recompile their entire code base to run on the M1, because they kept their developers on a short leash. On x86, windows, this is non existent. Well I mean all the apps that are in the microsoft store might be, but nobody uses them. And then you have those few very expensive software (which needs to run) that have modern GUI and some sort of cobol or fortran running at the deep end. Microsoft tried ARM PCs two times already, failed every single time.
But still, 3D performance is a joke. It doesnt have a lot of PCI-e lanes. Or sata.
MadTux:
15 year old Core2Duo is perfectly fine for browsing internet/reading datasheets, PCB editing....
No reason to get anything newer, especially since most new laptops seem to last a lot less long and I hate loosing data and reinstalling Arch every few years......
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