Re: [tlug] fanless pcs

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2018-07-04 06:55 +0900 (Wed), Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:

> I asked for comparison to VS Code; you wrote it consumed about 500
> MB. I didn't think vim will use that much.

You asked "What about vim?"; that's what I was responding to.

> > Do you use a 4K monitor?
> 
> No, I don't. I guess that would be an option. Although not in my
> budget right now.

Sure. In case you weren't aware, they've come down quite a lot in
price in the last couple of years while. The one I use at home is
under ¥30k. <https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B07332RH6Z/>.

> > > Indeed, at that price tag, I would probably consider the Aleutia
> > > R50 instead.
> >
> > The R50 is a pretty sweet box, but it's _way_ more expensive than
> > anything we've been discussing so far and they are rather
> > low-powered.
> 
> I seriously doubt the extra performance would make much of a
> difference for what I do.

Which is why I put one in the list one that gives just 10% better
performance for less than half the price of their i5 or about 60% of
the price of their i3.

Obviously if you can live with half the performance of their i3, going
with the original N4200 we were discussing, at 20% of the price of the
their i3, is the best option.

> The R50 can take up to 32 GB, which means it would take a while
> until it becomes obsolete for lack of RAM so the expense would be
> spread out over many years.

Both options I mentioned in that list also expand to 32 GB.

But to necessitate going beyond 16 GB the working size of something
like Chrome + VSCode would have to more than triple, from 4 GB to
14 GB or so. I don't see what's going to drive that, but if something
does I'm fairly certain that you're going to be wanting considerably
more CPU to move all that data as well, at which point the R50s
(and the mobile-CPU Livas) will become obsolete on that front.

I wouldn't worry about expanding past 16 GB unless you have some
particularly RAM-hungry applications, such as a bunch of virtual
machines that cannot be replaced by Docker containers.

cjs
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