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artyom@piefed.social 2 days agoI have not heard about it having a “special processor”. It’s a AMD Zen 4 CPU.
Look closelier. It’s “semi-custom”.
It’s stuff you can buy off the shelf.
Which shelf is that?
First, yes, you can, if you make it yourself.
No.
the size has nothing to do with the efficiency!
It has everything to do with heat and noise.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
They clarified, the silicon is off-the-shelf and the firmware is modified. It doesn’t have some “special processor” or anything.
What? It being small only means the heat has less room to be removed, so it needs a higher power fan (or thermal throttling). It does have something to do with heat and noise, in that smaller is worse for them. If it’s quite or cool, that’s despite the size, not because of it.
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
Being custom allows it to be both small and quiet. Find me another PC in this size, with this much power, that’s as quiet. You can’t.
I’ve already stated why several times. Now you’re just being disingenuous.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
We don’t know how quite this will be! Even the ones that were shown aren’t necessarily final. Again, you’re making claims without any evidence. I can’t show you something as quite as small, because we don’t know how quite it’ll be. To show you it isn’t anything crazy though, there are fanless PCs that you can get. As powerful? No. As quite? Even more. It’s a trade off. It isn’t magic. If you do something custom you could get even quieter with more power. Just connect a giant copper radiator to it without a fan.
I see you didn’t address the other points I made. Now we’re down to just the one. Whatever. This one is pure speculation, so can’t be disproven.
Im not arguing this will be a bad device. I expect it to be fairly good for the price. It’s just not really going to be something you can’t get elsewhere without Valve, with the exception of Bluetooth resuming.
artyom@piefed.social 2 days ago
You can tell by looking at the design, and by who made it.
Please go back and read my first comment on this thread. I said quiet, powerful, and compact. All 3.
I did. Several times.