Saturday, December 20
Three
Well, one of the three will be Ruri. Need some other names.
Well, one of the three will be Ruri. Need some other names.
(Basically I only use the name of the main character for a series because I use the names of the other characters for virtual machines. And Tanya, Frieren, and Maomao are taken.)
When I bought the first of these mini-PCs the whole system cost just 20% more than the RAM alone.
When I bought the first of these mini-PCs the whole system cost just 20% more than the RAM alone.
When I bought the second, it cost about the same as the RAM alone.
Now I bought a third - which should do me for a while - because the whole system costs 20% less than the RAM alone. And not because the computer was discounted further.
Now I bought a third - which should do me for a while - because the whole system costs 20% less than the RAM alone. And not because the computer was discounted further.
This took all of 11 days.
There are two real limitations to this model: First, it has no NPU, which matters if you want to run Copilot Plus (I don't) or need acceleration for certain media apps. I don't think any LLMs use NPUs, and it has a decent iGPU - Radeon 780M, about three time the performance of my laptop's Vega 8.
Second, it has only one rear USB-A port and it's USB 2. But it has a rear USB4 port, and you can power the system if you have a 100W or so input to that port.
My monitors all support video over USB-C, 96W of power delivery, and a two-port USB hub. So one cable handles everything.
There are two real limitations to this model: First, it has no NPU, which matters if you want to run Copilot Plus (I don't) or need acceleration for certain media apps. I don't think any LLMs use NPUs, and it has a decent iGPU - Radeon 780M, about three time the performance of my laptop's Vega 8.
Second, it has only one rear USB-A port and it's USB 2. But it has a rear USB4 port, and you can power the system if you have a 100W or so input to that port.
My monitors all support video over USB-C, 96W of power delivery, and a two-port USB hub. So one cable handles everything.
Today I plan to try Ethernet-over-Thunderbolt - I should get 10Gb just by plugging the two together - and test performance on my Minecraft modpack. Should be able to hit 60fps easily standard settings and without shaders, so I'll be seeing how high I can dial things up.
Update: Plugged Ruri into $UNNAMED and got a 20Gbps Ethernet link. Nice.
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The main character of 'Night of the Goblin' is Siu Choi, but Seolhwa is best girl, with her friend Solmi also being pretty good. Only other webtoon folks coming to mind as possibly relevant are the male and female leads from absolute reign. I do not recall the female lead's name ATM, but she is maybe not very distinct from Ruroken's Kaoru Kamiya. So you know the anime I know, I think pretty much.
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