First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

I love it(in context of FreeBSD):

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What does not work: Keyboard, mouse, TB & USB-C ports, thermal/freq mgt.

Conclusion: Highly recommended

That was a bit ironic, indeed, but at least the USB-A works!

For what it's worth, the majority of mechanical RGB keyboards and mice are USB-A anyways, so, if you're fine with a very powerful machine that wouldn't have an internal keyboard support for a few weeks, sounds like a good advice anyways!

An ARM64 is "a very powerful computer"? The whole promise with ARM is better thermals and long battery life, not screaming performance. With the thermals/cpu not working, we don't even get that.

M4 crushing benchmarks and AWS running Graviton 2 would disagree on the idea of "whole premise".

I always knew hardware discussions on HN were below the normal standards. But sometimes I am still surprised at how low it can go.

The finer grained performance per watt vs silicon cost set in the context of use case is just lost in HN hardware conversations like this that ignore total cost of ownership, vendor politics and such.

Everyone is buying the tool that does the job, or building that tool if they want to make that large investment...

There's a difference in cost per flop at home and in a data center.

I'm updating my wiring and air conditioning for a 7x5090 workstation because having that power for experiments under the desk is worth the cost (and fire hazard).

If I had to build 10,000 of those I'd be banned by NVidia from ever buying their hardware again.