Talos II - POWER9 motherboard

>>61439266
>back
>prerelease
fuck off

is power actually free (as in freedom)

>>61439266
I want it. I can stop using DDR2 Ram and shitty opterons if they just make this.

>>61439393
Yes.

>>61439266
Can it libreboot.

>>61439556
The last one had some sort of freetard firmware. I'd love to see it come with Open Firmware.

>>61439302
It's not crowdfunded this time, straight to market.

>>61439556
Libreboot is for PC compatibles. This one has it's own open firmware.

>>61439675
Finally

>>61439675
I can't wait to build a power9 PC. What do you think the price for the Motherboard and the CPU's will be?

>>61439713
way too much

>>61439755
Not too much, just a lot

>>61439755
The last one was what... $4000?

>>61439266
It's going to be an underperforming housefire.
You can't just take a big-iron server chip, put it into a desktop, and call it a day. That's not how it works.

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Shieeeeet

>IBM
lol

>>61439910
But muh freedumb.

>>61439970
>not liking the company that made one of the best laptops and one of the best keyboards.

How powerful is it? compared to some x86 cpu

>>61439958
How the fuck do they expect me to be able to afford that?

>>61439266
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST

>>61440637
See
>>61439958

>>61440675
6 dollars? I don't think thats the real price.

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>>61439266
am moist.

>>61440689
Order one and claim it said it was 6 bucks.

>>61439266
So this is coming with CPU?
What are specs? (I'm on phone, spare me)

>>61440234
Like 50 more powerful.

>>61441212
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Its going to be pretty expensive then.

>>61441212
Dont make stuff up

>>61441117
They probably forgot a few zeros.

>>61439266
>competitive pricing

So "only" $8k for a workstation?

This will be DOA just like TALOS I

>>61441117
I wouldn't be shocked at $6,000 base price DESU.

Weren't the previous power8 Talos boards being quoted at like $5k minimum?

>>61441859
The board itself was around $1000-1500 iirc, but the easiest way to actually get a CPU for it was having it bundled with the mobo order and that's where the true wallet rape was.

>>61439266
As someone who's spent his life doing security, this is a marketing pitch. The only thing this thing ensures is that the firmware you have running can't access the *whole* system, but it doesn't prevent any kind of IOMMU attack, side channels or give any memory safety. This is garbage in terms of security and the people building it should feel bad for calling it secure.

>>61441900
>but the easiest way to actually get a CPU
pretty much the only way unless you already had access through work or other connections

Who's the market for this? Pedos, drug dealers and foreign spies?

>>61442306
Anyone wanting to develop for POWER maybe?

>>61442391
If you want to develop for Power, you probably work for a company who will buy you a legit IBM system.

>>61439266
What OS's work with this? Debian?

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>>61442440

>>61442440

Seems so. But I wonder what software you could install, what desktop flavours support Power?

I can't wait to not afford this!

>>61442494
Save up your neetbux for 10 years until its obsolute.

>>61442468
Pretty much anything open source can be installed. If you can get by with a freetard setup on x86, you can on POWER.

>>61442515

Neat. If I had the money I'd buy it and make a regular Linux desktop just for fun.

>>61442557
I'm going to wait a year or two until its lightly cheaper on the used market.

>>61442511
>neetbux
If only.

>>61442591

What price could I realistically expect on the used market?

>>61442672
I really don't know.

>>61442672
He's honestly dreaming if he thinks it will be cheaper used, anyone buying one new is VERY unlikely to let it go easily, and if they were, they would expect to get back the vast majority of their purchase price, it's a VERY niche product with a very very small potential market.

MOST people dropping the $6k+ for one of these are going to be well off where that $6k wont be a particular financial burden, so they would be highly unlikely to sell it, and if they did they would have no problem waiting for a buyer with enough money.