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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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 :-)