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In theory I liked these things. ...but in practice I never got one, because they were always so expensive. The same hardware can be found in a laptop for much less.
They will be missed, I guess I'll have to look at similar devices from non-Intel in the future.
I'm not on the up-and-up with Intel. I know they're building a fab in Ohio... generally, does anyone know what their next moves are meant to be? I'm curious to hear about their business plan -- I know they've been lagging some other producers in recent years.
"Catch up to TSMC at 1.8nm" is the dream. So fabbing other customers' stuff. On the product side, Intel seems to be doubling down on GPUs, in spite of troubling rumors about Arc gen 2. Of course the question is what will be on time and what will be delayed. Previous delays obliterated the product lineups Intel meticulously planned before.
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"Catch up to TSMC at 1.8nm" is the dream. So fabbing other customers' stuff. On the product side, Intel seems to be doubling down on GPUs, in spite of troubling rumors about Arc gen 2. Of course the question is what will be on time and what will be delayed. Previous delays obliterated the product lineups Intel meticulously planned before.
Yes, "5 nodes in 4 years" is the rallying cry of the company right now.
They all start to blend together really, 0%IR BS washing away and revealing who's swimming naked.
The price was an issue. Not being fanless was another issue. So mac mini is the "best nuc" available.
In theory I liked these things. ...but in practice I never got one, because they were always so expensive. The same hardware can be found in a laptop for much less.
Same story. I looked at a NUC as a possible SFF PC, balked at the price, and ended up buying a Lenovo M93p Tiny off a guy on Craigslist for a lot less.
That is, we hoped to use Intel's MFX Media SDK for transcoding h264 (or even h265) video. Unfortunately both the SDK and the hardware were too much of a moving target, going from software to hardware only, Windows only then later linux only on CentOS, then only on Ubuntu, then (partially) open source. Dropping support for older generations, breaking API changes. Opaque licensing policies.
At some point we gave up and simply went with ffmpeg. Works great on AMD too, or ARM for that matter.
Still using a NUC as main development machine, extremely fast and mostly quiet.