for SURE this is a parody, right?

@zekjur @flancian Yeah, but the latest ones are unfortunately very hard to source unless you’re an OEM nowadays for some reason. AMD really does have an extremely confusing product lineup outside the most standard chips. Which I guess is both good and bad. I just bought an EPYC 4545p which is a super weird chip that shouldn’t exist.

@zekjur @flancian Oh, 50 watts isn’t THAT low. These mobile systems have much lower whole-system power consumption than desktop equivalents (again, with MANY tradeoffs). Here’s a person reporting a whole system idle of 30w for a minisforum-based 7945hx desktop build: https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/1alk4pd/comment/ktpnbkv/. Apologies if I’m missing context and this is all irrelevant: your choices sound very well researched!

@zekjur @flancian Interesting. What does your whole system idle at, if you don’t mind my asking?

@zekjur @flancian What are your requirements? AMD has parts that *might* meet your criteria much better, but they usually have tradeoffs, such as having way less expandability. For example the new AI mini PCs, or the laptop CPUs that you can now buy on desktop motherboards: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6296vs6403vs5799/Intel-Ultra-9-285K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-AI-Max+-395-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-7945HX3D

@veronica Is that original art for the Fifth Element Blu-ray cover? It’s great.

@rauschma In other words, explicit resource management can not only be used to perform symmetric clean up operations that are intrinsic to the resource (eg file open, file close), but also perform operations that are symmetric in your intent (eg create a temporary file, delete a temporary file)