Actually, you make the best case for ARM servers of anyone else in this thread.
The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price range...
That doesn't invalidate his point. He's just saying that is basically what needs to happen for ARM servers to start taking off. The next step is for companies to start deploying ARM workstations. That part still seems to be a good way off, MS abandoning their Windows ARM port didn't help the cause.
The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price range...
35 dollars will buy you an oldish x86 beige box that will absolutely flat out murder a Raspberry Pi performance-wise. Cheap, fast hardware is not a problem anymore.
The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35 dollar ARM SBC and a monitor that doubles as his TV is right in his price range...
That doesn't invalidate his point. He's just saying that is basically what needs to happen for ARM servers to start taking off. The next step is for companies to start deploying ARM workstations. That part still seems to be a good way off, MS abandoning their Windows ARM port didn't help the cause.