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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 speedgoose »

jojobas wrote: post #87
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.

Just checked on ebay, a 12500H NUC with 16GB ram and 1TB SSD is $518. You have to be in a completely distorted reality field to choose Apple in these circumstances.

The Intel creates a lot more heat though. If the noise/performances ratio is important or if energy consumption is something you care about, the Intel solution doesn’t seem that interesting.

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

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Post by throw_m239339 »

trd716 wrote: post #26

How is ASUS build quality these days?

I have a cheap Vivobook laptop, it's fine. At least it looks more robust than the cheap Lenovo I had before... Obviously none of them are as robust as my old 2012 DELL which I dropped many times on the floor without even scratching it or damaging the screen. But the latter is also way heavier and its performances just can't match a Ryzen 5.

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

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Post by flower-giraffe »

I think the influx of very low cost Chinese mini PCs makes the NUC, Asus PN and Asrock devices a bit less attractive. Also thelow power AMD APU has been very good for the form factor. Maybe the margins are too tight for Intel. Another take maybe that the NUC came in when low power Arm desktops looked viable and Intel needed a low power small form factor to defend against that.

The Minisforum, Beelink and the generic aliexpress units are incredibly cheap.

There are celeron based fanless models with 4 2.5gbe NICs available for less than $200 on Amazon.

Personally I have been using the AMD 15w Ryzen variants it’s a nice balance for performance. I have several, my daily driver is an Asus PN50 with 2Tb nvme disk and 64GB ram driving 3 sceeens at 2560x1440 in a completely silent Akasa case.

As long as you are prepared to fiddle and potentially destroy the original case rhe Akasa cases are fantastic.

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

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Post by Symbiote »

lockhouse wrote: post #78
Rebelgecko wrote: post #73

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256GB seems pretty small for an HTPC, unless it's just pulling from a server in another room

The key is to use an external SSD via USB. Much better bang for your buck than Apple’s storage pricing.

My fairly old NUC has a fanless case, 2TB NVMe, 64GiB RAM, and a VESA mount hiding it behind my screen.

I see there are aftermarket VESA mounts for the mini, and I suppose you can tape or glue the disk to it somehow.

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

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Post by Dalewyn »

ggm wrote: post #50
Dalewyn wrote: post #30

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Sincere question: How are you even going to fit more than one 2.5" drive in a NUC? These things are tiny.

Cable(s) out to an external drive holder with an ATX -> Sata uplift from a DC psu. I run the radxa USB3->SATA bridge pi-Hat which is a jmicron chipset and with the vagueries of USB- attached drives, but SATA like speed through a serialising controller I do pretty well. I'd like to do astonishingly well. So the use case is "yea I can't fit it inside the NUC case but I can bridge it to a small box" -or run the NUC with…

So, since the form factor isn't the goal here (separate box with umbilical cord, after all), what exactly is the purpose in using a NUC or similarly sized small computer?

None of this is intended to be condescending or anything, I'm just sincerely curious about the train of logic here. What you're talking about so far seems like something that would be satisfied by a custom Mini-ITX build with appropriate case/tower or something similar, so I would like to know why that isn't.

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

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Post by Symbiote »

speedgoose wrote: post #121
jojobas wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just checked on ebay, a 12500H NUC with 16GB ram and 1TB SSD is $518. You have to be in a completely distorted reality field to choose Apple in these circumstances.

The Intel creates a lot more heat though. If the noise/performances ratio is important or if energy consumption is something you care about, the Intel solution doesn’t seem that interesting.

For noise, you could budget about $100 for a fanless case for the NUC.

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

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Post by totetsu »

bee_rider wrote: post #6

About a week ago we had an article about Intel leaving the NUC market. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674 It seems a bit slapdash to announce that ASUS is taking the brand forward a week later. Like if they were planning on doing this for a while, it would be an orderly transfer, right? So, what, did somebody at ASUS see that ServeTheHome article and decide to just go for it? Anyway, I really like NUCs, an…

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Update 70 minutes after this piece went live. Intel just sent us the official confirmation:

We have decided to stop direct investment in the Next Unit of Compute (NUC) Business and pivot our strategy to enable our ecosystem partners to continue NUC innovation and growth. This decision will not impact the remainder of Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) or Network and Edge Computing (NEX) businesses. Furthermore,we are working with our partners and customers to ensure a smooth transition and fulfillment of all our current commitments – including ongoing support for NUC products currently in market. (Source: Intel)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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...

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

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Post by j45 »

rizky05 wrote: post #74
j45 wrote: post #58

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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.

Did you meant Go = HP. I made the same typo anyway, they are one keystroke away.

Definite typo - meant HP, thanks!
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