Jeff GeerlingSystem76's Thelio Astra is a quiet monster—it's by far the world's fastest Arm PC, and it starts at half the price of the Mac Pro.
Check out my video on the beastly machine here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshDjtlV6go
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vxo@geerlingguy oh hell yeah ARM desktops
Wossen Wyatt 🇬🇾🐧💿💾@geerlingguy Talk about strong arm tactics! 💪🏾
JustChomik@geerlingguy Whoops misclick my finger slipped.. Ooh i accidentally made the fastest arm computer
RedTechEngineer@geerlingguy Man I've been waiting for this video the minute I heard you had this in your possession.
Good stuff man.
Good stuff man.
Dio9sys@geerlingguy [slaps roof of computer] this bad boy can run so many parallel instances of gzdoom
Leminski@geerlingguy *points gun*
Hand over the computer, now. I want to run nonsense on it. (Fallout 4 probably)
Leefeller Guy@geerlingguy The prices are amusing.
Keldrim 
@geerlingguy I know what to get once i win the lottery XD
Mister Moo 🐮@geerlingguy Probably a few fewer use cases than the Mac Pro as well. :)
Jarkko SakkinenI upgraded my development machine, and actually look a bit at these but ended up with 9950X based machine because of:
1. Compatibility with some applications like Google Chrome and even Steam.
2. No EU distribution hub realized so far.
3. It becomes still quite expensive overall, especially since the lack of distribution in the EU region.
These look like issues that take at least few years to resolve so perhaps next time :-)
1. Compatibility with some applications like Google Chrome and even Steam.
2. No EU distribution hub realized so far.
3. It becomes still quite expensive overall, especially since the lack of distribution in the EU region.
These look like issues that take at least few years to resolve so perhaps next time :-)
@geerlingguy That said, I really "wanted" to buy it but it would have been impractical lifestyle driven choice ;-) Not a good investment angle for doing a paid profession.
@geerlingguy I think that it would make a lot of sense for system76 to widen their distribution to Europe. There's probably a hidden undiscovered market for ARM workstations because most of embedded is ARM and it does improve one's productivity when you have the same host and target CPU.
To actually upscale this business, even only in US, the system76 would really need to get into selling theses for other companies doing embedded ARM and provide leasing deals and support service to accompany that. It's cool what they do but it should also add value and not just be cool... Otherwise eventually there will be existential crisis :-)
To actually upscale this business, even only in US, the system76 would really need to get into selling theses for other companies doing embedded ARM and provide leasing deals and support service to accompany that. It's cool what they do but it should also add value and not just be cool... Otherwise eventually there will be existential crisis :-)
nassau69@geerlingguy is it impressive? Yes, but it should be for that price
Is it the ARM PC Microsoft wants? Nope. It’s way too expensive. Microsoft wants something to drive volume and be practical as a developer machine
So fewer cores, fewer memory channels but say $500 for CPU and a motherboard where the buyer adds memory, GPU, and storage
KiwiTB@geerlingguy Don't forget Intel in GPU testing. That would be useful info for Linux or Windows. B580 is out now, with their higher end cards maybe soon.
@KiwiTB trying to get one!
Erik@geerlingguy Just wanted to shout out to the guy that posted a random comment on this video saying that the Windows spinner is a font.
That comment led me to find out that Microsoft censored some egyptian hyeroglyphs, because why not?
https://office-watch.com/2021/why-are-three-symbols-censored-by-microsoft-windows-and-office/
