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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