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I use a Nuc as my main desktop machine and LOVE not having the giant box under my desk anymore. I'm thrilled that the line will continue, because I'd have another when it's time to replace this one.
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…
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> - No remote access / BMC. This would be the one feature that would make the systems 100x more useful. Ironically this is one of the options provided by some models in the dizzying line up. While it's not a dedicated IPMI port it uses Intel vPro for BMC like functionality. You'll pay a pretty premium for those models though.
I tried to buy one, but once I worked out what the exact model number was that had VPro I couldn't find one in stock anywhere. It should really be a standard feature, but I guess Intel didn't want to cannibalize server sales?
The fragmentation in their lineup (and general lack of availability outside of B2B) really hamstrung them IMO.
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Yes this. The tiny PCs tend to have mobile CPUs in them as well which can feel a little sluggish. You can get a decent small desktop for the same money. I have a Lenovo Neo 50s as my main computer with a 12400, 32Gb of RAM and 1TB SN850X SSD in it. Very nice, quiet and reliable machine.
Yeah but for the same money as your Lenovo, you can get something much smaller.
There's enough room in the Lenovo for a couple of PCI cards, a couple more disks and a hell of a lot more RAM if I need it too.
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Old (but not too old) Fujitsu mainboards are a great hack to build a computer with low power draw, especially in idle mode. They support relatively recent Intel sockets and 4 SATA ports out of the box, so really ideal for small-ish and very affordable file- and media servers. I‘ve seen in a German forum [1] specialized in this kind of thing that people reproducibly get 5-8W idle with such boards. At least in the EU,…
I have an ASUS PN40 that idles at 1.8W (_at the wall_). This is with one SSD and LPDDR3 memory.
Idling an old Xeon or a 12100 at 4W is also a bit more challenging than a 1.1Ghz Celeron.
Where is the ARM equivalent or put another way budget Linux Apple Mini competitor?
Hoping they continue Intel's long tradition of good support for Linux/BSD.
Where is the ARM equivalent or put another way budget Linux Apple Mini competitor?
I've saved a few during my years of lab management as they ran our infrastructure, and they're cracking PCs. Sometimes I run into fringe issues with drivers, but never anything major. Pretty much all validated on Linux OS too, so better support than most client PCs.