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As dandy72 suggested it feels pretty early to make the switch yet. Expect problems for the next year or two while they work out the kinks.
Technology-wise, hypothetically for laptops and such, ARM is good option since it's low power, but pretty full featured - at least the ARM Cortex As typically are.
For desktops and workstations not so much. I wouldn't want to develop on one yet for a number of reasons.
I'd wait before you replace a primary machine with an ARM.
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You can check out ThinkPad X13s (13” Snapdragon) Laptop Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3 Compute Platform (3.00 GHz up to 3.00 GHz)
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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A couple weeks back I decided that I needed a decent ARM machine in order to have a development box with weak memory ordering (especially important for Java since it doesn't hide the problems like x86/x64 hardware and the .NET platform do).
I did an extensive review. Based on that I got myself a cheap ARM-based Chromebook and a Macbook Pro. Since I use JetBrains IDEs I can pick up on the Mac where I left off on my Wintel notebook and vice versa; the only thing I really miss on the Mac is LINQPad. Based on a month of working like this I can only say one thing: I should have gotten myself a juicy Macbook as soon as the M1 chip came out!
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You may buy a MacBook Pro with an M2 and virtualize Windiws 11 .
Edited a type
Gilles Plante
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Thanks for all the replies. It seems quite clear to me that I am a (at least) a year or two early, asking for a proper ARM based desktop. I am not in a rush to upgrade (and the day I get an ARM desktop, I will most certainly keep my x64 running next to it - lots of my old software tools will never be ported to ARM).
I most certainly want more flexibility than a laptop or notebook; they are no more extendable than the Volterra (which I have considered and rejected; lack of flexibility is one reason). Not only would I like to play around with ARM; I have recently done some reading on CUDA, but my 660Ti card is too old for running many of the samples in the CUDA programming guides I have picked up. I would like to plug in a more modern card - not for the speed (except to see how fast I can get my own code!) but for the 'compute capability', as nVidia calls it.
Also, if I buy a new PC in late 2023 (or most likely 2024-25), I would want a reasonably modern architecture. ARMv9-A is two and a half years old; I won't go for older ones. USB4 is four years old; I won't go for USB3.
So, thanks for the information. It confirms what I suspected: I need not panic yet. My old PC will do alright for another couple of years. I have plenty time for learning more about both ARM and CUDA before putting it into practice
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... but I emptied my work e-mail InBox this morning.
This hasn't happened in years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quick! Set up a Rule: "All incoming mail" ... "Send to Junk mail folder"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Long ago, when we still had physical inboxes, a coworker of mine spent some time the quiet days between Christmas and New Year to work through his inbox. Near the bottom of it, he found a wall calendar for the year that still had three days left.
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A few years ago, the team I was working with decided we needed a holiday planner for the year, so ordered one which arrived about the 18th March as I recall. We hadn't decided where to put it by the following Tuesday, 24th March 2020, when the UK government order a lockdown because of Covid-19 and we've all worked from home ever since!
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By "emptied", do you mean deleted/filed or just read?
I rarely delete anything from my Outlook mailbox and's currently showing that, across all folders, I have 88,913 unread messages! 6 of those are in the InBox.
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I use my InBox as something of a "to-do" list. Messages will sit there for days, weeks, sometimes 2-3 months. Once something's completed, it get moved to a topic/product/project folder.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My retirement age exceeds my life expectancy, so no.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Should we rename the Towers of Hanoi the Towers of e-Mail?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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People at work are stunned when, for example in a screen sharing session, they notice how organized my inbox is. I currently have 4 items, 3 flagged as important. Everything else is organized into folders by customer and third-party vendors, often with sub-folders on particular tasks and email correspondences. While the main inbox is not often totally empty, the # of items usually doesn't exceed a dozen by the end of each day.
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Same here - but I never let others see it
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I joke that I cause rain by closing all my notepad++ tabs. It leaves a local vacuum and pulls in all the clouds.
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Same. And the last tab is new20!
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Which idiot ever came to the idea that editing MSOffice documents in a browser would be a good idea ?
No, I do NOT WANT TO EDIT MY DOCUMENTS in a Freaking browser, because as the name says, it is a BROWSER and not an EDITOR.
Sorry, I had to vent. Please give me my IT world back from 10 years ago - Everything has only been going downhill since then.
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What gave you the idea that you are in control?
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Rage wrote: Which idiot ever came to the idea that editing MSOffice documents in a browser would be a good idea ?
Google? (lots of competition from Google Suite in browser)
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Let me introduce you to the Chromebook...
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Rage wrote: Please give me my IT world back from 10 years ago
Pretty sure CodeMirror is an editor that it built to run in a browser. Well more specifically it is a component that runs in a page that runs in a browser.
It was released in 2007.
Looking at it I can see it even claims to work on cell/mobile devices.
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Not only document editing. The same goes for software development tools. And photo / video / sound editing. And whathaveyou.
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I kept my Windows 8 machine ... so they can't take that away from me. I plan to do the same up the line.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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