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My apologies. I was remembering the old Apple A4 and read more into "might be a derivative" than I should have.

My understanding is it's a very slightly modified A72[1], kind of like how Apple's A4 was really just a tweaked ARM Coretex A8.[2] That's not to say future versions won't be fully custom, but for the short term, we can probably just lump it in with A72.

Absolute performance? Sure. At similar power levels, is the different that obscene? I thought the iPad Pro review showed it was surprisingly close: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9766/the-apple-ipad-pro-review/4 Sure, being 34% slower is still a lot, and the A9X outclasses an A72, but things...

You're probably right, but Intel is still pretty proud of its Core CPUs and needs to keep up with budget devices, too. While I'm confident Intel can hit A72 power and performance targets with Core, does anyone really think they'll get there with a competitive price, too? That's the niche Atom...

Thanks for the info. I just thought Intel was usually a bit more forthcoming in the past about these kinds of things, and I hadn't seen anything official.

Please forgive the thread necro, but I've looked around and can't find any decent info on Goldmont's supposed release date. The best I've found is some mention of 2H 2016, pushed back from early 2016, pushed back from mid-2015. All that info was pretty dated, too. Anyone heard anything else...

Thanks for the input. Good confirmation that it's a 4360 and should work. I don't normally use wireless, but for now, I haven't wired things together in my new house, so I'll be on wifi for the foreseeable future. I'm one of those lucky Chattanooga guys with "mere" 100 Mbps symmetrical fiber...

So the wireless works? I just found out the chipset is actually a Broadcom BCM94360HMB, and I'm not finding anything specific about linux support for it. edit: I did find a page that said while that's the chipset itself, the chip is a BCM4360, and other posts make it sound like that works just...

Does anyone have any information as to whether or not the Asus X99 Deluxe board has decent support in Linux? I asked Asus support, and they said no, which just means they don't want it to be their responsibility. My concerns, in no particular order: Booting. There's a Phoronix post that has...

I'm after the size and resolution more than anything. My old display was a Dell 3007WFP, so a 30" 2560x1600. Granted, that was a nice IPS panel, and I'm under no illusion that the 4k TV will be as nice. I'm not a graphic artist, so the colors shouldn't bother me. I just want the desktop space...

I'm definitely aware of the refresh rate limitation at 4k over HDMI 1.x, but that's what I plan on using. My storage is also in a NAS so I don't anything local more than a small SSD. I'll look into building a system. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of having some kind of...

Bummer, there's a significant price bump to go to an i3 over Celeron ($180 to $370), and beyond 4k support, there's 300 Mhz CPU, 2 GB RAM, SMT, and a wireless keyboard/mouse. That's not a lot for doubling the price. Looking at something like a NUC or a Brix, they're not any more...

That's what I thought would be the case, but I can't find any documentation that says so. If I pick up a Celeron Asus Chromebox, will it output 4k at 30Hz over HDMI? That's all I'm really after.

I think I'd like to stay x86 if I'm going to try to use it as a desktop for at least the short term, so the ARM A17 SoC systems probably won't work. Man, waiting until Q4 for Broadwell...I'm not sure I can do it. I do have a loaner laptop from the office that may hold me over. Judging from...

I was really hoping for something more along the lines of Kabini (Athlon 5350) or Haswell HD (Celeron 2955U), but I can't quite figure out what the GPU on those things actually supports. Shader counts, core counts, voltages, frequencies, TDP, all easy to find. I'm just not seeing max output...