I still don’t think that would work as a peaker plant, but it’s better than nothing! If they really have improved it more than that it might work, but you are going to need at least one power source that can be meaningfully changed multiple times per day.
I’m not saying the old logic of “ARM is efficient, x86 is fast” isn’t still true
Okay then I will say it. Apple Silicon is almost as fast per core than Intel and AMD. I am not talking just about x86 vs ARM in general because that’s a fools errand. I am talking about Intel. That’s also not an Atom chip, they don’t make Atom anymore. Sure it is made of E cores but those are several generations removed from the Atom chips. It would actually make more sense imo if they used the 8 core version of that chip.
Literally anybody who lives in an apartment block. Or anyone who’s front door is too far to run a charging cable. Then charging at work is even fewer people. In my country most people can’t park directly outside their house to begin with even if they own a house. This is very naïve.
Intel chips are still quite hot and use older process nodes which are less efficient. They have been pushing performance over efficiency recently as well. If this was AMD hardware on N5 I would agree with you, but sadly it isn’t.
The issue with this mentality is that lots of people (or even most) can’t charge at home or at work. If you have fast charging cars and enough stations then you don’t need to address this issue and you now have a drop in fossil fuel replacement rather than something that needs lots of new local infrastructure.
Are the power optimisations as good on Linux/ARM as on x86?
ARM chips use less power, that’s kind of the whole point.
I wasn’t talking about that. I was talking about the second screenshot. Thanks anyway
Ah okay. Maybe I should try that at some point. It’s been years since I used it last.
What management interface is that though and is it part of the OS? What OS are you using anyway?
What software are you running on all of this?
This is why we need SMRs and probably government funding as well. It’s hard to run a grid without base load power.