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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Could you not just actually build a dedicated PC for that price? Lol

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

But then he won't have a k8s rpi cluster

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

This is the real reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I mean you could have a smaller cluster

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

and the power consumption adds up, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Pis are only 5W, right? 4 of them should still add up to about as much as a midweight laptop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is true. Really annoyed that arm as a hole isn't being utilized like it could be by really anyone but apple. We could be making arm Linux powerhouses that sip power like a mid tier x86 laptop. The worry by some is that there is now way to do this without having every component solderd on, but dell has already made a new open laptop ram slot standard that has almost the same latency as Apple's soldered ram.

Arm is the future, and needs to be treated as such more than it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, it's not just Apple, Google is all in on ARM and has been for like a decade and a half.

As for the laptop, look up framework

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah but Chromebooks suck, apple is making computers that aren't just for web browsing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I do also have a dedicated PC as a NAS, the rpi cluster was more for learning. And k8s does provide some cool flexibility