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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 youngtaff »

j45 wrote: post #58
bfdm wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it's great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise. I'm in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus' SFF line.

Lenovo has the thinkcentre line Dell has the optiplex Go has the elitedesk and pro desk All in mini/usff formfactor similar to the size of a Mac mini.

Yeh, I struggle to see the point of a NUC when I can buy one of those used and get much better value

https://www.servethehome.com/tag/tinyminimicro/

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

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Post by Toutouxc »

keithnz wrote: post #102

Anyone using a NUC as a mini home server? How is it? or if you use something else as mini server what? and why? I keep thinking of getting something which I can run multiple vms as needed for things like game servers, hosting docker containers, etc. load it up with a bunch of memory. I don't want anything too big/power hungry given most of the time it would likely sit idle.

I use mine as an ultra low-cost self-hosting machine. I have the cheapest dual-core NUC 11 (bnuc11atkc2) with 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD (figured that would be enough) running Debian in a poorly ventilated IKEA cabinet. It runs Pi-hole, Home Assistant for my smart stuff (Zigbee stick via USB), Livebook (live coding notebooks) and Nextcloud, everything in Docker, and has two 4TB USB HDDs on BTRFS exposed via SMB as a cheap NAS with daily Restic backups to Backblaze.

The machine sits at 49-53 °C and I have the fan curve set so the fan only starts spinning when it gets a little over that. Which I believe doesn't happen at all, because it's so underpowered.

I don't know exactly how much power it consumes, but the whole IKEA cabinet sits at 16 W for my router, one Raspberry and this NUC together, so probably not much.

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

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Post by xyzzy123 »

lostlogin wrote: post #95
afavour wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While that’s true it kind of ruins the point in getting a small factor computer like a Mac Mini. You want as small a footprint as possible. Personally I have a USB disk plugged into my router and my HTPC just grabs files over the network.

> as small a form factor as possible This is what I want. And the Mac Mini does it better than the nuc as the power bricks the Nucs use are big, ugly and annoying to deal with.

It's hard for me to put my finger on it exactly but at this point NUCs just feel more hackable. For me, that's why the mini is not a satisfactory replacement.

If you want a little kube node, if you prefer the way ubuntu and debian upgrade over the way osx upgrades (and have the linux experience be decent), if you want to shuck it and slap the board in a robot and run ROS, if you want it to be a steam box with an eGPU, there's a bunch of things NUCs do well / places they fit that mac minis don't quite (yet, at least).

Mac minis are great but they're not the same thing. The "tight hand" of Apple makes them great but also limits them. Like you probably can do all the above, with sufficient effort but is not a first class experience, in the same way that an orange pi is not a raspberry pi.

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

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Post by adastra22 »

kcb wrote: post #80
ChumpGPT wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Costco occasionally has sales on Mac Mini for $299.00 (M1 Mac Mini). Right now a Mac mini – Apple M2 Chip 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU – 8GB Memory – 256GB SSD – Silver is $499 Hard pressed to buy a decent NUC for less.

Having to spend $200 per 8GB of RAM and $200 per 256GB of storage like it's still 2012 pretty much destroys any value proposition from Apple.

You can put a 4tb drive on a USB port.

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

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Post by diarrhea »

keithnz wrote: post #102

Anyone using a NUC as a mini home server? How is it? or if you use something else as mini server what? and why? I keep thinking of getting something which I can run multiple vms as needed for things like game servers, hosting docker containers, etc. load it up with a bunch of memory. I don't want anything too big/power hungry given most of the time it would likely sit idle.

Yes, and it’s excellent.

Scored my model for €450, barely used. i7 8665, 32 GB RAM and 500GB SSD. It would have been around double that price new. This was about 4 years ago.

It’s quiet, rock solid and can run just about anything I throw at it. It’s even overkill for my uses, but if I get another 5 years out of it it’s incredible value for the money.

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

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Post by georgeburdell »

kodah wrote: post #34
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…

I use a Skull Canyon as my daily driver for programming and honestly I wouldn't have selected another machine.

Me too. Been waiting years for them to release a similarly performant model in the same form factor.

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

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Post by valid4life »

keithnz wrote: post #102

Anyone using a NUC as a mini home server? How is it? or if you use something else as mini server what? and why? I keep thinking of getting something which I can run multiple vms as needed for things like game servers, hosting docker containers, etc. load it up with a bunch of memory. I don't want anything too big/power hungry given most of the time it would likely sit idle.

I use a wall street canyon NUC to run proxmox (hypervisor), portainer (docker management), pteradactyl (game server hosting panel), pihole (moving off the big point of failure soon :) ), and a handful of random things here or there.

It's been great so far, fans aren't too loud, power consumption isn't killer and there's ton of headroom still, assuming no modded minecraft server taking my ram.

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

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Post by pizza »

Have to say my experience with Intel and ASUS lately has just been one of shoddiness/instability- 12900ks + z690 desktop build has been pretty unstable just trying to enable the advertised features in the bios (xmp for instance). So I wish them better luck this time..
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