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minus-squarenomous@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down11·23 days ago$600 gets you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. You can get better hardware for less.
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·23 days agoIs there even a better ARM SoC? All I know of is the Snapdragon X Elites, which are either on par or slightly below the M4. And you can only get them in a laptop form factor at this point, cuz they cancelled the mini-PC dev kit.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·23 days agoHave you factored in the processing power and the cost of an equivalent processor?
$600 gets you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. You can get better hardware for less.
Is there even a better ARM SoC? All I know of is the Snapdragon X Elites, which are either on par or slightly below the M4. And you can only get them in a laptop form factor at this point, cuz they cancelled the mini-PC dev kit.
Have you factored in the processing power and the cost of an equivalent processor?