Saturday, July 07
Daily News Stuff 7 July 2018
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Tech News
- Phoronix benchmarks IBM's Power 9 against Intel and AMD. It's a mixed bag, with each company taking some wins and some not wins. Power 9 does suffer on some benchmarks that are reliant on compiler optimisations for Intel and AMD SIMD instructions.
You can pick up a Power 9 system surprisingly cheaply - cheap if you're used to enterprise system pricing anyway.
- This award seems slightly excess- they sold how many? Never mind.
- Kubernetes is an exciting new container management system that will dramatically reduce devops workload fuck everything is down.
- Intel's 8.5th generation Whiskey Lake chips are the same as Coffee Lake, which is the same as Kaby Lake, which is the same as Skylake, which is barely different from Broadwell and Haswell. (These uninspiring new Intel CPUs are different from yesterday's uninspiring new Intel CPUs.)
- Gigabyte has you covered if you need 6.5 or 13 GB per second of I/O and your motherboard supports PCIe bifurcation.
This one is a half-height card, different to the last one that did exactly the same thing.
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A 500MHz boost over the last half-generation's not too bad, although it won't make me run out & replace my 8250U laptop.
Now, make those thin and lights a few millimeters thicker or something and put more heat pipes in or something so the CPU can stay at full speed longer than a few seconds, mmkay? (Admittedly even when throttling it's still fairly fast and for everyday work you aren't going to really notice. My lappy even runs Eclipse pretty well.)
Now, make those thin and lights a few millimeters thicker or something and put more heat pipes in or something so the CPU can stay at full speed longer than a few seconds, mmkay? (Admittedly even when throttling it's still fairly fast and for everyday work you aren't going to really notice. My lappy even runs Eclipse pretty well.)
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, July 08 2018 07:04 AM (ITnFO)
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I have an older 2lb 13" laptop and I love it; I can just toss it in my bag and not even notice that it's there. But much as I love it, it loves its charger more.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, July 08 2018 11:03 AM (PiXy!)
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Check out this wee beastie. It makes a bit of noise while charging stuff, but it's small and light.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0712252ZQ
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0712252ZQ
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, July 08 2018 12:51 PM (ITnFO)
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