@scottalanmiller said:

That's true. Don't know if they can afford to keep that up these days, though.

My first guess from how the design looks is that the processor board will be cheap, and that board that has the M.2 slot, USB3, video connector (couldn't see it), etc will be more expensive than it should be.

@jt1001001 said:

@dafyre I know on one of my Dell machines I did a new driver that seemed to fix the vmq performance issue; on the other I did just completely shut it off.

I'd be less hesitant to leave it enabled if I could trust it to not cause problems.

@Jason said:

this is pointless. Dual boot phones? no thanks.

FTFY

I see the use case for these in databases and almost solely there (until they get cheap.) We would need to know a lot about their performance, longevity, reliability, durability, cost, etc. before we could speculate much. Seven times faster is a big deal, that means that things like FusionIO are going to have to rethink what they are doing. And the SATA and SAS bottlenecks would be useless and we'd be forced onto direct PCIe or faster for any hope of getting the speed out of these things. But changes there have been coming regardless because already are drives are bottlenecked by the connection technologies.

If these end up the same price as current flash SSDs but are seven times faster and all other things are equal, that's amazing and we will switch right over and the flash drive is dead. But I suspect that there are many factors that we have yet to discover. And, right now, it's just a long off dream. We will have to see if they really bring these to market.

By and large, though, systems like file servers and application servers are no longer bottlenecked at the datastore layer but on the network, so I would not see most workloads having a reason to upgrade, yet.

@scottalanmiller said:

For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive.

In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.

@mlnews I downloaded it in a VM, scanned it with 3 different tools, opened it and scanned through it with mark1 eyeball, then cautiously tested it on a fully backed up system. ❤ VBScript.

@Dashrender said:

But businesses do this all the time.

Businesses have IT departments who understand the risk, the factors involved, etc. They know that holding back on Windows 7 brings risk and limitations. They know how to buy new systems to ensure how they want to install works properly. This is just normal work for them.

Valve is doing wonders for the Linux desktop space.

@coliver said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Sorry - some reason I'm wondering what I could use this for.....

Well it is a small, quad core, low power desktop computer that you can run Android, Linux or Windows on. So mostly anywhere that you need a low cost, low power desktop.

I guess since I haven't followed the technology much, I am missing something. My take is that it's a USB device,.. But it's a desktop. But it doesn't make sense to plug it into my desktop to run a desktop... sorry.. Seems like a dense question I know.

It is actually a HDMI device that plugs into a monitor and is powered via USB (at least from what I am seeing).

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Sorry - some reason I'm wondering what I could use this for.....

Well it is a small, quad core, low power desktop computer that you can run Android, Linux or Windows on. So mostly anywhere that you need a low cost, low power desktop.

I guess since I haven't followed the technology much, I am missing something. My take is that it's a USB device,.. But it's a desktop. But it doesn't make sense to plug it into my desktop to run a desktop... sorry.. Seems like a dense question I know.

Only looks like USB. That's the monitor output that you see.

AH! - Okay. That makes a tad bit more sense. Hmm.. I'll have to make a note of that,.. and see. I have the 32" TV at the house that doesn't get much use...

ROFL Nice!

It makes sense as both have a lot of stack in the Chromebook game. Intel wants to move processors and AMD is currently weak in the Chromebook space (but for how long) and Samsung is very strong in the CB space while being weak in the traditional laptop space. So they both want to see Chromebooks succeeding for their own reasons.