Hacker News Reader

Comment by dilippkumar | Hacker News Reader

Here I am, still continuing to dream of a laptop and desktop grade power10 processors in consumer grade products running AIX.

I want a solid UNIX ecosystem with power10 to compete with macOS + Arm. I’m tired of there being only one real option for a reliable unix laptop.

View on HN

I don't think a portable (or luggable) POWER10 machine is in the cards.

OTOH, a single SMT8 core (or two SMT4, firmware-defined) consumes about 20W, so it could be possible to manufacture a few-core module that could fit inside a sensible laptop.

My Dells with Linux are quite reliable though, even if not as fast or good looking as the Apples...

You've lost me on AIX. Never again.

I used to work at an AIX shop. I gotta say, AIX is pretty solid. Back in the late 90's, it had features like volume management long before LVM was available in Linux. They also had a great virtualization story early on (LPAR.)

One of the best UNIXes, combining ideas from mainframes, UNIX and Windows.

There is a reason why it is the biggest survivor from Linux conquest on the server room.

IBM managed to succeed where Sun, HP and SGI, among others, failed.

> running AIX

Ah, I see you like pain.

He could have asked for an Itanium laptop with HP-UX in that case.

That's terrible but at the same time exoteric. I legit googled Itanium laptops and got nothing.

Would need a fat gamer laptop chassis with a lot of cooling. Doable, but not practical.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com