Recent content by erazog

The people buying these dont care about games for the most part so GPU performance is really not important. Lots of Intel and AMD mini PC's have very low end GPU's.

Well they are going to run into a semiconductor manufacturing wall eventually which will stall development. The companies that control the secrets to advanced nodes are closed to outsiders and these are co-operating with Washington. It will take them 15-20 years to close the gap of now and...

Nvidia continue to send data telemetry after installing their drivers with no opt-out so I would not consider their software privacy minded. AMD is the only vendor to the best of my knowledge that actually lets you turn the data collection off. At least for Windows, if on Linux then you have...

Windows relies on ACPI and UEFI (more or less what a modern PC is) for installation. From what I understand the RPie use uboot and device tree instead of the above so it lacks what most PC users would think of as a bios. There are various projects on github that allow you to flash a ACPI/UEFI...

Windows is not a requirement for mainstream adoption. The Steam Deck though targeting a specific market is proof of that. There are also Linux PC makers likes Tuxedo and System76. The problem is that most of the Linux distros are far too nerdy for mainstream users, even Ubuntu which brands...

Ian Cutress (tech potato) mentioned in his live streams a week or two ago there was some kind of manufacturing flaw with the kits, something to do with the video output ports coming loose, seems like they went with a recall.

Those CPU's are really only intended for industrial/government use, where x86 and windows compatibility is still a necessity everything else is secondary, Loongarch is what they want to replace x86 with so that might explain why Zhaoxin haven't done much with it. The GPU is based off the Via...

You can already run x86 Steam games on Arm Linux systems (with some hoops to jump through) this just gives an official Arm build of proton likely to be packaged into Steam which will make things easier. Fedora are considering packaging FEX-Emu into Arm64 builds which would make everything more...

It is still possible to use a Firewire to Thunerbolt adapter on modern Mac's for transferring camera DV footage so its not quiet dead on the MacOS side yet at least. Not all Firewire cards do work fine in Windows 10/11, many are very broken the only MS OS that is really fully compatible is...

Loongson hardware cannot be sold outside of China without an export license so this isn't going to be legally available in the west any time soon. Also Loongson hardware is designed for it's domestic linux distro LoongOS, maybe Deepin too which has a Loongarch build. LoongOS does have an x86...