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Raptor's Blackbird Arrives As The Most Open-Source Yet Fast Desktop System
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This is a very interesting product and I’d be tempted if it wasn’t for a focus on low energy usage hardware at the moment. To that end Micheal I hope you can post energy usage numbers soon. Especially interested in standby, and light usage numbers. Total system power usage when being driven to max performance is also important but I’d you have always on usage in mind idle power is a factor in chip selection.
This highlights a big big problem with Power, there is nothing on the market that I know of that competes with sub 10 to 15 watt processors. For that matter there isn’t a good laptop chip that I know of. Being open doesn’t really make up for the lack of hardware where it would be most interesting (to me anyways).
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
Raptor provides a PPA with Chromium binaries for Debian and Ubuntu here: https://quickbuild.io/~raptor-engine...untu/chromium/
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Nice specs, but this is a curio for a well-heeled, niche market at best. For the same money, one could build several mid-range x86 pc's with similar combined TDP -- arguably a more useful (though bulkier) kit, apart from a very few conceivable use cases.
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Originally posted by dsmithhfx View PostNice specs, but this is a curio for a well-heeled, niche market at best. For the same money, one could build several mid-range x86 pc's with similar combined TDP -- arguably a more useful (though bulkier) kit, apart from a very few conceivable use cases.
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I would like to see some information about thermal levels and how well the stock cooler performs.
How much cooling is needed on average load, how noisy does it get?
I know this is not related to the board itself but when you have the stock cooler anyway I would love to hear your thoughts about it.
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Originally posted by Gerk View Poststan Firefox works on powerpc it just has no JIT but with the beast that the machine is, it does not bother browsing that much if you have NoScript installed. On the other hand, Chromium just works and has JIT, it just is not upstreamed yet because Google wont accept/review the patches for what it appears to be a political de-prioritization. Someone maintains an ungoogled-chromium ppc fork at https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/ungoogled-chromium
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Comparing the quick Blackbird results to my older power8 makes it seem not so good: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/...SP-1811068SK37 - the Blackbird 4c is almost exactly half my power8 8c. This is worse than expected, as my cooling is not the best, and there's supposed to be IPC improvements from POWER8 to POWER9.
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