Welp. I might have to buy a Mac.
I had stopped buying Apple products 3 years back after their virtue signaling & hypocrisy got too much for me to bear. Their Trillion $ mEga Corp. status didn't help.
But I've been using only low TDP CPUs for several years now and x86 processors doesn't come close to M2's power-efficiency.
With Asahi Linux, Macs might be the best low power-high performance Linux machines out there.
At specked out M2 Mac Mini page now, Please stop me.
@abishek_muthian Check the new framework laptops with the 7840u (or maybe 7740u?) chips. Those should be close enough in performance without having to deal with Apple weirdness in the boot sequences, and you get officially supported GPU drivers instead.
And the RAM and SSD aren't soldered directly to the motherboard or cpu interposer. Since Apple does that, upgrading ram and recovering data is impossible.
My main portable system though is still either the Steamdeck with bluetooth accessories and a USB-C screen, or an old i7-8550u 17 inch, depending on how small of a bag I need to bring. You don't always need the absolute fastest chip to get things done.
And the RAM and SSD aren't soldered directly to the motherboard or cpu interposer. Since Apple does that, upgrading ram and recovering data is impossible.
My main portable system though is still either the Steamdeck with bluetooth accessories and a USB-C screen, or an old i7-8550u 17 inch, depending on how small of a bag I need to bring. You don't always need the absolute fastest chip to get things done.
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@abishek_muthian (You can buy the motherboard separately and put it in a 3d printed case if you want it in a mini desktop form.)
@kazriko You make a valid recommendation, Framework laptop was my goal initially but I live in India & cannot import compute products due to regulations.
I replied to another person here about it - https://fosstodon.org/@abishek_muthian/110129138218374249
@abishek_muthian Darn, that's terrible then. Might look to see if any local manufacturers end up using a 7x40u series chip for 15w, or 7x40hs series if you don't mind 35-50 watts.