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The fact that the RAM is just literally unupgradable due to the structure of the chip really just drives that home - they shouldn’t have made it a desktop.

Idk, maybe some sort of cluster piece or something?

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TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I disagree. Bringing that hardware to a desktop form factor is incredible and opens it up to be used in ways that wouldn’t be possible in a mobile form-factor.

None of those ways are gaming. It’s not a gaming PC. It’s for very specific workloads.

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- Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well perhaps the bigger problem is the Verge reviewing it as a gaming rig
  
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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You can buy it ‘naked’ without the desktop shell, for clustering (though also just to choose your own case).

It’s really meant as an LLM-runner that fits on your desk, for people who aren’t looking to have a rackmount setup. Hell, unless I want to add a 4U monster to my rack for a GPU setup, even a single FWD is going to outperform most rackmounts for running LLMs.

I do think there’s value to it as a gaming machine if only because other OEMs aren’t offering desktops with Linux, and certainly not ones that can run games very well without any user upgrades, but yeah, it’s definitely not intended as a “gaming machine”.

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