Comment on Starting out with Selfhosting
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So some 2015 MacBooks came with Broadwell-eDRAM chips, great CPUs with (IIRC) a 64MB cache chip the CPU or GPU could use.
chipsandcheese.com/…/broadwells-edram-vcache-befo…
If that’s what yours has, it’s a gem, and punches way above its age/clockspeed for the power draw. Keep it!
Jellyfin might be able to use its iGPU (and not just the hardware blocks) for some offloading as well, though I’m not sure of Broadwells Vulkan support or what exactly Jellyfin uses it for.
puck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah mine is a Broadwell i7, 3.1ghz with boost up to 3.4ghz, model number 5557U. The guy I bought it from maxed out the specs at launch and I bought pretty cheap a few years ago. For a ten year old device it runs like a dream and handles pretty much anything short of gaming and video editing with ease
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah, no eDRAM on that one I think, though I’m not 100% sure.
Still, with 16GB its plenty for a server as others said.