New(ish) machine/system available - name sought

I’m surprised nobody has offered this one yet…

Computer McComputerface

(I’ll go get my coat…)

Ach, Rick, you just made me splurt my tea!

Shouldn’t that be ARMy McARMface?

Shouldn’t that be ARMy McARMface?

I see my prize/discount disappearing into the far distance!

Risc PC 3.

Thank you for the discount!

(more seriously – does this run 2x ATX motherboards or a single board with everything on it? Is the ARM board upgradeable? What might the specs be like compared to e.g. an Rpi 4 4GB?

I would say one Titanium board and one Mini ITX board, as some cases allow this. The magic is in the connection between the two. I bet the that the new VNC server/client is involved even If I would prefer an up to date RDP client (for sound).

There are two chassis we can use. One allows up to full-ATX size PC boards, plus RISC OS board (Ti). The other is MicroATX or ITX, depending on your needs. In both cases, these are upgradable should you choose. The first one I build had a full ATX Ryzen board with 12 core 3900x, 1TB m.2 PCI-E Gen4 SSD and Nvidia graphics, plus the RISC OS board.

The RISC OS board is a Titanium, which Elesar report as still being faster than Pi4. But, to be honest, if you’re comparing to a Pi4, the price will be so astronomically different… Remember that Pi has always offered huge performance for your dollar (comparetively) but tends to have significant cuts to hit the price point (eg. lack of fast storage). The idea of this system is to offer a no-compromise high end system. Well, you can compromise on the PC if you wish, and just have a low end “browsing & uniprint” board which actually makes a certain amount of sense.

It would be illogical to use one board, as it will go out of date too quickly, and be non-upgradable. Also, you’d hamstring one with the other like in the RiscPC. Also, if you have any thoughts of running “the other popular OS that isn’t Windows or Linux, but runs on Intel” you need to be very selective about compatible PC parts.

Fusion – I think there are already some products with similar names

@Andrew
You’re probably thinking of Fuze Technologies Ltd who back in 2015 were selling to schools their equivalent of the Ident Micro One (now 1.5), or of the Pi-Top v1/v2 without screen, all based on Raspberry Pis.

Here’s my entry TuCard, Tucard,… ;-)