Purism Librem Server v2 Announced: $2999 USD For A 9th Gen Core i3 With 16GB RAM

[schmidtbag]

If I'm not mistaken, that was the last CPU generation before all the spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities were addressed. Kind of ironic to brag about its security, even if all such vulnerabilities have been addressed. However... addressing those vulnerabilities have really compromised performance, so this product is a worse value than it appears.

[brent]

These Purism people are getting funnier every time! Is this a serious offer? They must be really desperate.

[sarmad]

Somehow Purism continues to exist despite the over-priced and under-specced products. Are there really that much orgs that would be ready to sacrifice both cost and performance for the sake of the extra security? I guess their market is limited to intelligence orgs, military orgs, and maybe crime orgs.

[scottishduck]

This is why GNU geeks are a laughing stock

[bearoso]

Somehow Purism continues to exist despite the over-priced and under-specced products. Are there really that much orgs that would be ready to sacrifice both cost and performance for the sake of the extra security? I guess their market is limited to intelligence orgs, military orgs, and maybe crime orgs.

I think you were right on that last one, but probably not for the reason I'm thinking. When something doesn't make sense like this it's usually a money laundering operation.

[heavyjoe]

Haha, Purism, they suck so hard i can't believe it. God i hate them.

[skeevy420]

Simple solution - round up all the gamers into prison camps. If you offered free weed and Taco Bell, most of them would show up themselves and walk right into the prisons. So you could solve the whole problem for less than $2,999.

For real? Did you even Math? Assuming 2200 calories per day and 120oz of fluids, that's 8 soft tacos, 2 large Pepsi sodas, and 4 20oz cups of water. Assuming free water, that's $20.10 per day per person. Going by the current top 10 Steam game player counts we have 2,457,150 people costing $49,388,175 per day to get enough calories and fluid. Those are the Tuesday afternoon gamer numbers. Imagine what those numbers would be if we went with Friday's player count.

Now, assuming a half ounce of weed per gamer per week, at $120/oz that's $294,848,000 per week; $42,122,571.42 per day.

Your plan costs $91,510,746.42 per day and $33,401,422,443.3 per year.

So $91.5M per day versus a $9K Raptor, a $2K subscription to Red Hat, and $400K a year in engineers.

Again, those are the Tuesday after Memorial Day Weekend numbers from Steam only. There's another 1-2M using the top 11-50 games...even more if I'd bother clicking on page 2. Exponentially more if I used Xbox, Sony, Nintendo, Epic, Apple, and Android numbers.

So hundreds of millions a day in Taco Bell and Weed. That explains why Taco Bell won the Franchise War and how the three sea shells makes sense -- you have to be very high to figure the three sea shells out.

[andyprough]

So hundreds of millions a day in Taco Bell and Weed. That explains why Taco Bell won the Franchise War and how the three sea shells makes sense -- you have to be very high to figure the three sea shells out.

Well, I did mention my program is both a jobs program and an economic stimulus program all in one didn't I? Sorry if I forgot that part. My program would create about 200,000 Taco Bell and weed delivery jobs. And those are tax paying jobs - so BOOM! My program erases the $31 trillion US national debt in less than 3,000 years.

[ypnos]

If I'm not mistaken, that was the last CPU generation before all the spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities were addressed. Kind of ironic to brag about its security, even if all such vulnerabilities have been addressed. However... addressing those vulnerabilities have really compromised performance, so this product is a worse value than it appears.

All vulnerabilities are mitigated by newer microcode and the Linux kernel in software for older CPU generations. There is nothing ironic about advertising security of a product using these processors of the software is recent enough.

Yes, it makes the machine even slower than it could be. But it is only an i3 in the first place...

[torsionbar28]

Ever priced out a new server from Dell or HPE or IBM? This isn't the desktop peecee market.