If I had slightly more money I would buy one of the raptor systems just out of interest to try it out as a daily use machine.<p>IBM sells just the CPUs, is that right? So they are targeting mainframe or other enterprise applications. Whereas Raptor CS that you linked to is selling a desktop version. Other than hobby interest, could the desktop use case be for developers that are building applications for mainframes that use that CPU?
A repost of a question I posted a little over two years ago. I'm wondering who actually buys IBM POWER9 systems - and does IBM actually net money off POWER9?