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Ask HN: Most Interesting Hardware?

2 points by makapuf ↗ HN
What is currently the most interesting hardware you can buy and program for? Weird, powerful, open (that you can program for) hardware used to be fascinating: archimedes, apple PowerPC, NeXT, then powerful PC of course. Then a few years ago arduino, raspberry pi were smaller but the same. What would approach those kind of cool platforms? Mobiles are a bit closed and dejavu, computers seems to evolve slowly, what's next?

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nostromo177
Interesting as bargain. Maibenben(Chinese) mini computer AMD Ryzen 5 Vega graphics, ssd, more ports than usual desktop. Using Budgie Ubuntu Linux FAST AS HELL! $400 OR LESS (newegg.)One 8GB Corsair(?!) Sodimm add another yourself in other slot. 4K video outputs. Boots 12 seconds. 4 cores 8 threads There two more generations of AMD CPUs yah separate video cards "gamer setups" sure. But for the price nothing close till $550! Think Chinese want dollars. $439 at moment. Chip 14 months old they have more recent AMD chip models. Bluetooth dual WiFi one is 5G for more. Really surprised me how fast it is. Never been on one as fast- fast enough for me- rare. little trouble setting bios to boot off AMD disc cause of UEFI.

I Booted into windows 10 sign on then used Windows reboot outside UEFI choice. Set bios to boot off DVD and used legacy where available in bios. Install disk Ubuntu Budgie says something failed along way but let it Go and it continues & completes install in short time.

As usual installing AMD video driver has bug in kernel 20.04 but google it and the error solution comes up actually works. Latter optional as Ubuntu installed drivers just fine.