Canonical has announced a RISC-V laptop running Ubuntu will go on sale this year

[abawany]

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/the-worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-running-ubuntu

[blackeyeblitzar]

Exciting in theory and I hope they succeed. But the specifications seem underwhelming. 16 GB RAM and only 8 hours of battery.

[camel-cdr → blackeyeblitzar]

You likely won't be doing anything on it that requires 16 GB. The cores are comparible to Cortex-A53 cores, but with more vector performance.

[snvzz → camel-cdr]

>You likely won't be doing anything on it that requires 16 GB.

That CPU has 8 cores.

In practice, just doing "make -j8" would require those 16GB.

As for laptop usage, some 10h after booting my 16GB x86 laptop, KDE and chromium open with some 200 tabs (the usual), 10GB of swap are already used.

16GB is already barely cutting it, and it would be a major handicap to have any less.

[camel-cdr → snvzz]

I disagree. My desktop has 12 cores and 16 GB RAM, and I build software on all 12 cores regularly without any problems.

The only times I ran out of RAM because of builds where actually single thread ones: accidentally linking clang with debug symbols and a single threaded verilator elaboration of the XiangShan core.

I don't know whats going on with your setup, but I regularly have two firefox windows with a shit ton of tabs and discord open and struggle to get over 3-4 GB RAM usage.

I also just build ffmpeg and 7zip on the same 8 core risc-v system, but with 4GB RAM and didn't have any problems. It was running in tty though.

[snvzz → camel-cdr]

>12 core 16GB

Not ideal, but at least that is more than 1GB per core.

>I also just build ffmpeg and 7zip on the same 8 core risc-v system

ffmpeg is C, unsurprising.

7zip is C++ but fairly light.

Try building Chromium or Firefox, perhaps.

>I don't know whats going on with your setup, but I regularly have two firefox windows with a shit ton of tabs and discord open and struggle to get over 3-4 GB RAM usage.

Chromium, but some 200 tabs.

[snvzz]

Banana Pi BPi-F3 for the same SoC in a more affordable <$100 SBC format.

Already shipping.