Why the hell does the bus in Paris needs an i5 with 8Gb of RAM, does the driver needs to play rocket league ?!
Why the hell does the bus in Paris needs an i5 with 8Gb of RAM, does the driver needs to play rocket league ?!
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Well that is just a [2 Core 4 Thread CPU]( https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/76308/intel-core-i5-4300u-processor-3m-cache-up-to-2-90-ghz.html ) and the 8GB of RAM probably accounts for their security software and overhead, or it may have been the lowest amount shipped with the minipc or laptop they use.
Oh no an Intel! Get outta that bus!
Asrock SBC-310M, most likely in a custom passively cooled housing.
[https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/SBC-310](https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/SBC-310)
The bus shouldn’t really need anything more than an old Atom or some cheap-ass ARM SBC to run the display, but considering the price of the bus, the cost difference between those and an i5 is trivial.
It’s rare that we get an interesting post like this in a sea of “is it worth it” threads.
Thanks for sharing, I love random hardware!
Definitely some food for though when thinking about performance/needs and what kind of hardware we actually use for the infrastructure of everyday things like transit and it’s non-graphically demanding applications.
Bruh, I was using something worse than that for years
It’s some embedded platform. Plus many busses run multiple cameras now.
What else do you expect?
Now I need [Bringus Studios](https://www.youtube.com/@BringusStudios) to install SteamOS in a bus computer
I have a laptop with the same specs and it can play gta4 at 7/9fps. I raccomand for gaming
Can it play Doom?
I read that as Intel i5-14300U and was confused as to why it only clocked to 1.9 GHz
The i5-4300U is an ultra-low voltage CPU from 2013.
8 GB of RAM is not all that much, hasn’t been since, well, 2013.
It is perfectly rational to me that a bus would use a decade-old ultra-low voltage CPU coupled with a modest amount of RAM (which is shared for graphics) to operate its displays – displays which probably operate in 1080p. It’s likely a mini PC.
They need to know where you are dropping!
In all seriousness though 12V barrel jack thin client PC ordered in bulk : Cheap, small , can drive 2 displays with basic info
It can run Doom tho
I was totally expecting like a celeron or gods forbid an Atom. But I would have bever expected an i5 lol
i mean thats kinda good considering device