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i always thought Ryzen AI Halo, together with DGS Spark, has mismatched compute capacity with memory size. Given 128GB VRAM, people would want to run large models, but the GPU compute is constraint in these types of use case. If the box runs models that don't need high compute, then there is no need of 128GB VRAM.

On the high end side, it is too slow. On the low end size, it waste money on VRAM.

they could had gone with the Max-Q version RTX PRO 6000 and only require 120V circuit. 10% performance hit, but half the power.

fundamentally, looks like they are shipping consumer off-the-shelf hardwares in a custom box.

for all past years, I have been told wayland is the future. but the decade long dragged out rolling out did not made much sense to me. neither did I investigate why. until today, I found out how difficult to force a 1920x1200 resolution over remote desktop. it is plain feature degradation.

people ask why do you need it. I have a 3440x1440 physical monitor on the server, I need to remove login with a 1920x1200 laptop. I want full screen at laptop's native resolution. Windows can do this decade ago.

cheap microcontrollers use RC oscillators. If they only drift a few seconds a day, that would be an achievement by itself.

RC oscillator is poor enough that early days USB communication would fail if running on RC clock.

atomic clock is not expensive. they have different grades. module level atomic clock cost only $3500.

the NIST hydrogen clock is very expensive and sophisticated.