I guess with the rise of ARM, Microsoft will have to commit itself now to the new era!!
This is just meant to be informative, I doubt that this setup makes sense yet!!
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@mickey666maus What my daughter wants is the latest MacBook but I worded it in such a way that even though it’s really Unix on ARM the Gen Z don’t care as long as it is fast and easy to use.
linux mint and zoron (based on Ubuntu) are very user friendly and today you can get ubuntu pre installed on Dell, Lenovo and other popular computers.
If the Nvidia/ ARM acquisition is successful (and at $40B I suspect it will be) the future of high end desktops and laptops will all be based on ARM and I am willing to bet the next Gen XBOX/PS6, Cloud and even Apple game console will be ARM as well.
I believe all the scenarios are open and the eventually what yesterday was good tomorrow is not.
Microsoft: Steve Balmer bashed the first iPhone and today is a top choice. I remember going to Microsoft dev events where the main joke was the Linux world, and today Windows has the Linux subsystem.
A few Microsoft evangelists asked the question: who needs SSH and command prompt ? when we have windows and mouse ? Today I have projects deployed on the cloud on a windows server without GUI and SSH and Powershell scripts are the best in town.
Azure has more Linux servers than windows servers. Microsoft SQL server is available on Linux, Microsoft Office is available on Apple.
Intel: I don't see their roadmap for the "small" world, they shutdown all the embedded platforms. LattePanda, UpBoard, AtomicPI, RockPI all of them use the same old architecture Cherry Trail (Atom) Released in 2015 Q2 for the tablets (deprecated), almost 6 years later there is nothing new.
I have two Atomic PIs (bargain prices) I don't plan to invest more money on a Cherry Trail, instead I've invested in few Intel NUCs and use them in my big designs.
Apple: I've 3 kids: elementary, middle and high school, all of them have MacBook laptops assigned by the school district. That choice will shape their future decisions. I've introduced them to Windows, and all of them have Raspberry PIs mini desk computers, but, as expected their top choice is the Apple ecosystem.
I believe everyone is biased and "brainwashed" during their live.
I got familiar with Minix, *nix and Linux in college, my first job introduced me to DOS, Windows 3.1 and Novell networks. Novell lead me to Oracle, Sun systems (unix) and Java language the multi platform promise. From all the development paths the one I recall as something special was the NeXTSTEP: it was very far ahead of time. I did some objective-C code, at the time nobody expected objective-c and Cocoa to rule the Apple development, likewise Java guys trashed Microsoft .NET because was not a multi-platform and today .NET runs on Intel, Arm platforms.
@DJ ...Idiocracy was such a great movie seen it about 5 times now!
ptp hammered the last nail. Things were, things are, things will be... because things change, change takes time, and change is unpredictable.
I guess I should stop complaining and buy an SBC. I have an NUC but it is 19v and fans spin when idle just running windows so not ideal to run off battery.
Anyone know where you can buy a ROCK PI X (I Guess model B 4GB/32GB) in Canada. Cheapest I can find is $138 CAD from China. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001664720545.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.5eb33c00D8SymT&mp=1
@Nink Seeed Studio, but it seems that they are out of stock of the custom heat sink: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Rock-Pi-X-Model-B-4GB-p-4277.html
*Edit Note that you'll also need a 2.4GHz Antenna with u.fl connector for the WiFi, the onboard chip antenna is garbage for reception.
@Nink, you want the fan no matter what OS because thermal monitoring will limit the cpu frequency. Also, the fan takes very very little juice. Oh my ohmnilab telepresence robot, it has a fan and runs all day with an Up Board in Windows at 50% cpu utilization processing navigation and telepresence features. The best investment you can get for a battery powered robot is a watt monitor.
I use these: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Professional-DC-60V-100A-Balance-Voltage-Battery-Power-Analyzer-RC-Watt-Mete/284093591041?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20200520130048%26meid%3D34bbc6ec2eb84b8894a2ee2c454abd41%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D7%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dco%26sd%3D164368654750%26itm%3D284093591041%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWebWithDarwoV3BBEV2b%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851