Posts by HCV 126 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
the port selection has been cut back considerably
Not really, especially depending on what you're comparing it to.
My current Mini is the 2018 Intel, which has 6 USB-ish ports -- plenty for what I need.
Its successor, the M2 Mac Mini, cut that down to 4 USB-ish ports, which was kind of obnoxious, especially since it also only supports 2 monitors. So I've been holding off on upgrading.
The new M4 Mini, as you note, has 5 USB-ish ports, so that's one more than its immediate predecessor, and only one less than the Intel mini, plus it's back to supporting 3 monitors.
(All three also have an Ethernet port, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack).
I'd rather have USB-C by default than USB A going forward.
Those are all consumer hardware manufacturers. The Power architecture seems to sell mainly in the more serious space. Here you go, a cluster with 31424 Power cores spread over 1964 processors.
You may be missing the point here. In the mists of history, the Power architecture used to have some interesting volume markets, such as Macintosh, OS/2, and Nintendo consoles. 31,424 cores is super-cool and awesome, but 1,964 is fewer than the number of Arm processors sold every three seconds not so long ago ("842 Chips Per Second: 6.7 Billion Arm-Based Chips Produced in Q4 2020", Tom's Hardware). I imagine the numbers have grown since then.
You've got to have a hell of a lot of margin to make that kind of market math work in your favor. You can be serious AF, but at some point you need to make money.
Thank you! I've been trying to remember the "girl the plastic cover is named after" name on and off for years, and for whatever reason both my Google Fu and my friends' memories have failed me. I must travel in the wrong circles, or live in the wrong country.
Reminds me a lot of this
I guess it does if you squint just right: misuse of a thing in the service of a goal. Only in one case the goal was an odd stab at getting the United States to promote peace, the other's goal was stabbing the United States to promote Julian Assange.
original MongoDB post lists multiple Solaris distros, none of which run on SPARC
Argle bargle, Solaris is SPARC only, no one uses it on x86!
Nobody in their right mind actually runs Solaris for anything vaguely important on anything other than SPARC!
I can tell you with great assurance that many companies on Wall Street, in retail, and in government, just to name a few markets, ran Solaris on their x86 systems for their very important applications. One of the US' largest supermarket chains ran their entire business on Solaris x86 at one point.
...whether many companies still do is a more interesting question, since Oracle has worked for the last 7 years to make it difficult and expensive to get Solaris for non-Oracle boxes.
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