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minus-squareHiko0@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·1 day agoThere‘s nothing comparable on the market at this size and price when it comes to sheer power and energy efficiency.
minus-squarenomous@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down11·1 day ago$600 gets you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. You can get better hardware for less.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 day agoHave you factored in the processing power and the cost of an equivalent processor?
minus-squarekibiz0r@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day 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.
There‘s nothing comparable on the market at this size and price when it comes to sheer power and energy efficiency.
$600 gets you 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. You can get better hardware for less.
Have you factored in the processing power and the cost of an equivalent processor?
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.