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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and the power consumption adds up, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Pis are only 5W, right? 4 of them should still add up to about as much as a midweight laptop.

[–] candyman337 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is true. Really annoyed that arm as a hole isn't being utilized like it could be by really anyone but apple. We could be making arm Linux powerhouses that sip power like a mid tier x86 laptop. The worry by some is that there is now way to do this without having every component solderd on, but dell has already made a new open laptop ram slot standard that has almost the same latency as Apple's soldered ram.

Arm is the future, and needs to be treated as such more than it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not just Apple, Google is all in on ARM and has been for like a decade and a half.

As for the laptop, look up framework

[–] candyman337 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah but Chromebooks suck, apple is making computers that aren't just for web browsing