Blackbird Update 5
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Well, there is no  update related to my own Blackbird.  It is still not
shipped.

I just  finished reading of  Blackbird semi-review from  Cameron Kaiser
[1].  As always  it  is very  interesting. He  made  some points  about
usability  of such  system.  He  wrote his  experience  with a  minimal
Blackbird configuration  (a 4-core CPU, 16  GB of RAM, no  separate GPU
and the miniATX case).

He recommends to get a 8-core CPU, a discrete GPU, preferrably at least
32 GB of  RAM and a bigger  case (a minitower or bigger).  Even then he
does  not  recommend to  use  such  system  as user's  primary  desktop
workstation.

Oh, that's  exactly what I'm  going to do.  I ordered the  basic bundle
(the system  with 4-core CPU)  and got  just 15 GB  of RAM. But  I also
ordered a compatible AMD GPU and  the minitower case. The system should
replace my main  home workstation which is  the old good SGI  O2. But I
assume that in my case the boost  of performace will be large enough to
satisfy my expectations (the O2 has a 250  MHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM and its
CRM GPU was already slow in 1999 and I'm still able to use it today).



References:

[1] https://www.talospace.com/2019/06/a-semi-review-of-raptor-blackbird.html