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ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by inhumantsar »

bigyikes wrote: post #3

It's hard to take ASUS seriously with a quote like: > this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC – greatly expanding our footprint in areas such as AI and AIoT It's just dripping in buzzword doublespeak. The NUCs seem like cool devices, do we really have to shoehorn "AI" and -- I had to re-read this -- "AIoT" into everything?

Honestly there is demand for local inference in the enterprise space, especially computer vision systems, that demand more power than comparable arm platforms can provide.

I could see there being a small but valuable niche they could fill.

Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by stu2b50 »

nickpeterson wrote: post #9

I feel like it’s really hard to justify one of these in light of m2 Mac minis. High usage memory applications?

They can be nice as small servers. OSX is not as suited to server usage as a BSD or Linux and doesn’t have expandable storage - NUCs have additional m2 or sata drive ports. The NUCs also cost less.

Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by NikolaNovak »

nickpeterson wrote: post #9

I feel like it’s really hard to justify one of these in light of m2 Mac minis. High usage memory applications?

Are the minis upgradeable? My nuc now has an nvme drive and a 2.5" ssd, and I've upped it to 32gb ram for some light vmware work.

On the other side of spectrum I have a few cheap nucs with celeron for media tv and streaming purposes.

If I read it correctly, Mac mini is 800cad for 8gb ram and 256 sdd.

Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by [deleted] »

bigyikes wrote: post #3

It's hard to take ASUS seriously with a quote like: > this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC – greatly expanding our footprint in areas such as AI and AIoT It's just dripping in buzzword doublespeak. The NUCs seem like cool devices, do we really have to shoehorn "AI" and -- I had to re-read this -- "AIoT" into everything?

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Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by dev_slash_null »

bigyikes wrote: post #3

It's hard to take ASUS seriously with a quote like: > this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC – greatly expanding our footprint in areas such as AI and AIoT It's just dripping in buzzword doublespeak. The NUCs seem like cool devices, do we really have to shoehorn "AI" and -- I had to re-read this -- "AIoT" into everything?

I use a Nuc clone to run Home Assistant, and AI event detection for my camera network (assisted by a Coral accelerator). So I think it legitimately qualifies for those buzzwords.

Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by flyinghamster »

magicalhippo wrote: post #4

Been using an Asus PN51[1] with KDE Neon for about a year, and overall I'm very happy with it. Performance is good, never had a crash, stuff just worked out of the box without fuzz. Seems like a decent fit to me. [1]: https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/pn-series...

Another happy PN51 user (R7 4700U) - I've found it to be quite the mighty mite working with big NetBeans projects.

I'm honestly not surprised that Asus would pick up the NUC line.

Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by lunfard000 »

nickpeterson wrote: post #9

I feel like it’s really hard to justify one of these in light of m2 Mac minis. High usage memory applications?

Much better as home-servers (450~ euros for a barebone 1340p is a pretty good deal). They have really good IO and linux support.

Re: ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products

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Post by agloe_dreams »

RandomBK wrote: post #5

I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel's NUC line was technically profitable (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn't make strategic sense - especially from a 'competing with your own customers' view. While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I've used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let's see what ASUS ends up doing with the…

Furthermore, Intel had no real way to get them in front of new customers. Asus is absolutely happy to cut deals with Walmart and Best Buy and to play hardball.
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