Minisforum MS-A2, AMD Ryzen™ 9 9955HX, AMD Radeon 610M, up to 96GB Ram. What do people who buy computers like this really use them for? Why not just get a laptop with the same specs?
>>106574674because in half of these you can put a proper gpu
>buying chinkware
>>106575401>being racist against china in 2025india moment
>>106574674- only 96GB RAM, no ECC support- 2.5G instead of 10- not strix haloThis is outdated, but when they release an update it could be good.
>>106575455None of these minicomputers have real ECC
>>106575498They're coming. One is already out.
>>106575430Zhang, please.
>>106574674>What do people who buy computers like this really use them for?Browsing facebook and Hacker News.>Why not just get a laptop with the same specs?You're a donkey, aren't you? Don't lie, as I can hear you braying.
>>106574674What's the purpose with that form factor? It will thermal throttle itself so you might as well get it with a slower CPU since you're not getting any performance in the first place.
>>106575525DDR5 isn't ECC
Why would you need this in a small form factor? The 16 cores and the 95 GB RAM implies it should be used for a server. Still it's $1300. You could get a single CPU home server with ECC and otherwise the same specs plus 10GBASE-T and 4+ SATA slots for about the same price. This would be in a common case and let you replace components and upgrade storage.
>>106575638DDR5 CAN have ECC.
>>106575638ECC UDIMMs existThey have the same error correction as RDIMMs in servers, just without the buffer which only served to stress the IMC less.
>>106575667Yeah, but all these minicomputers that claim to have ECC are actually talking about the internal ECC that's required by the DDR5 standard
>>106575640People want to live in the pod.I've discussed it and there are two camps that aren't aware hardware can even have problems that would make the system effectively a brick or there are people who knowingly take the risk with all-in-one hardware and it's just something you deal with in exchange for the form factor.Personally my home server is 100% serviceable, I even have spares.
>>106575680I get what your saying, kinda like how SSDs will be advertised with ECC when every single one has to have it for it to even function.But for a brand like Minisforum, there is going to be as assload of people ready in waiting with their udimms to test the shit.
>>106575638https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gdfeOQrMNo
>>106575385You can put a small low power GPU in them, kinda pointless when the APUs they use are performant enough. You're not going to fit a 5070 in there.
>>106574674I use a mini PC for work (software engineer). Compared to a laptop, these things>have better cooling>are more compact>don't have a battery to worry about>don't have a screen I don't need/want>are cheaper>have more connectivityIt's a good choice for anything where you need a decent amount of general compute power but don't need a dGPU and don't need portability.
>>106574674It literally has the logos of Kubernetes & Proxmox there. They're for homelab/servers and have an extremely good level of low power draw for their power level. They'd be great boxes except the main problem is they're just massively overpriced for what they are. The version with 96GB of RAM is €1,400. Even if you bought some power hungry second hand blade server you wouldn't spend that much on power in a few years.
>>106574674This is the future of computing unfortunately. Your gf is a male and your PC is now a console.
>>106574674>What do people who buy computers like this really use them forHave you looked at the picture you posted?Clearly that's intended as an extremely small home server.
>>106575455>2xSFP+retard
hdmi and no dp
>>106578212Oh great, now you need to either buy SFP+ NICs/Switches/Router, or you need to buy $20-60 10GbE SFP+ modules.
>>106574674running AI models locally
>>106575455>>106578307It has a half-height PCIe slot, so you could buy a surplus NIC to install if you really need 10GBASE-T ports.
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