This Mac Pro killer runs a GPU—and Windows on Arm!

Special thanks to the team at Ampere for making this happen!

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#Arm

Contents:

00:00 - What the Mac Pro COULD be
01:17 - What if...?
02:54 - A peek at the hardware
04:17 - This System is Ready (for any Linux)
04:47 - Benchmarks and Arm efficiency
07:58 - Windows on Arm (on Ampere)?
10:39 - What about graphics cards?

[niklasxl]

really interesting to see some competition to x86 on the desktop :D

[uzimonkey]

Seeing Tux Kart run that slowly makes me wonder what a software renderer written to utilize this many cores could do.

[airy_co]

I hope these beefy arm processors go mainstream, this is exactly what we, homelab enthusiasts, need but cheaper

[deanlawson]

Wow! What an amazing system Jeff!!
When you're into hardware like this, you're in rarified air and you have to figure things out for yourself. Interesting how Linux just loads and boots up and runs perfectly on this.
Linux is great!

[ketatgenhorst]

Some nostalgia from your commentary, boy do I miss the 2009 Mac Pro. Also, I think my first time building a kernel was around 1998 and was either a Pentium 1 or a 486. Hearing "2 minutes" for a kernel build was crazy.

[marcianoacuerda]

This is becoming “the intrusive thoughts won” channel and I love it.
I just wanna see Jeff power trough the win installation 😅. He found a working graphics card for the pi after years, he can definitely run windows on the ampere 😊

[JK-moov]

You do a great job wasting your time on trial-and-error using the same methods that most of us would do at 3am. Now I get to experience the disappointing result and still get sleep. Thanks Jeff!

[MarcoGPUtuber]

It could be, but we know it won't be modular. Lmao

[ChristopherHailey]

It's nice seeing crazy machines like this, there are so many ways to do things and I can see how this kind of architecture could be so useful. Also, Rocky Linux is great (that's what I'm running). This channel is where you can see stuff other than what you see all the time.

[BaileyMagikz]

Jeff: This is what the next Mac Pro COULD be
ME: was expecting to see a ARM hackintosh mate

[benjaming]

Microsoft actually did make the arm build for windows more publicly available recently. This is part of their own in house arm dev kit being pushed out.

[kevindawe]

Fascinating video Jeff. Not surprised you can't get windows working, it's windows being, well windows. Nice to see Arm systems coming along leaps and pounds with the possibility of giving the desktop some competition. Glad to see you looking so well.

[GreenStarbird]

Hopeful we will start seeing some more power efficient ARM desktops in the future!

[SuperChocMuffins]

Finally, been waiting for so long for someone to make this video! Nice job as always Jeff

[Practical-IT]

This is pretty cool. It would be great if something like Proxmox would add official support for a setup like this. Even 24 or 48 cores would make a worthwhile machine in this kind of setup.

Hopefully this is just the beginning of the Arm workstation era!

[ticehgo]

The prospect of running Linux on ARM-based devices beyond the scope of low-powered single board computers is truly fascinating. If you happen to have the time / energy & know someone at Lenovo that could send you a unit, it would be interesting to see if you could explore the possibility of installing Linux on the Lenovo IdeaPad 4G ARM64 Snapdragon 8c.

I have personally attempted to live boot various Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Debian, on this device. However, I continually encounter an issue where the laptop simply reboots a few seconds after selecting the "try/install Ubuntu" option from the Live ARM64 Ubuntu USB grub menu.

This Lenovo Snapdragon laptop battery life is insane on Windows 11, but the device lacks the memory (8GB only) to do much with it beyond browsing, Office 365, and youtube / Netflix streaming.

[tsalVlog]

I saw that kernel build time and spewed my coffee.

I am buying one of these as soon as I can afford it.

[QuentinStephens]

Great to see you finally got your hands on an Ampere.

[uMalice]

This makes me happy to see adoption of arm for desktop and server. I'm running Fedora Asahi on my M1 and it's improving with each update but still has far to go .

[cliffmathew]

Your patience and perseverance is unmatched. Thanks for the videos.