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Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by toast0 »

drcongo wrote: post #21

Does NUC stand for something? Is it an Intel sub-brand or a more general classification?

Intel coined NUC as "Next Unit of Computing" in 2012. I don't believe they claim a trademark on the term, but I've not seen any other company use it. There's plenty of other products with a similar footprint, it's about as small as you can shrink a board with a mainstream laptop chip with modular memory and storage, and a decent amount of ports.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by paulrpotts »

This is disappointing - I own four of these. I deliberately bought the older new-old stock units that were on clearance prices. One sits on a shelf in my basement next to my Synology NAS, and is a headless Ubuntu box I use as a very low-end build server for my blogs and writing projects. It mounts a server directory, I VSCode into it and run Makefiles. It works wonderfully... plenty fast. One is a media server machine in our family room, mostly for streaming TV shows. One is currently waiting on a replacement fan. One is a Windows box for those rare times I need to run Windows specific programs for work.

These were the perfect sweet spot for me between abusing low-end laptops and shelling out real money. My kids put them together with me and it was a nice learning experience for them, too.

I was hoping I'd be able to upgrade/replace these piecemeal as needed. I guess I'll have to look into other replacements for when these give out.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by goosedragons »

gorkish wrote: post #24

Of all the NUCs they ever made; there is one singular model with 10G ethernet. And yeah good luck getting it. The lack of any significant IO to the outside world crippled these things massively. I tried to order 3 NUCs once; after waiting 6 months for stock, I gave up. Seems nothing will actually be lost. Anybody make ANYTHING that is nuc-like and has 10G+? HP Elitedesk 800 mini has a flexio option for a single 10g p…

Mac mini? It's a BTO option though. You can also just get a mini PC with Thunderbolt and add a 10gb nic that way.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by jrockway »

Covzire wrote: post #29

I wish Intel or someone would get into the enthusiast firewall market. Very High GHZ 2 to 4 core CPU, 2 to 4 NICs, x86, <$250, 1-8GB soldered RAM, Simple M2, very basic video out, would be very popular for home firewalls and maybe even businesses with a decent IT department/person as a Firewall/VPN appliance.

I've been looking for such a home firewall, but the power usage of an Intel box isn't competitive with the dedicated devices.

Something like this seems nice: https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/vpn-router/er...

But I don't actually have >1Gbps service yet, and haven't needed to use my backup connection, so I have so far not taken the plunge.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by electrosphere »

blahyawnblah wrote: post #18

I've had one for about 7 years now that's been my htpc. Nice, little, quiet, and it worked great. Was thinking about upgrading soon. Guess I'll have to figure something else out.

I wanted one for this purpose to replace a Dell Optiplex SFF running Kodi. It's dual-core CPU and cannot decode x265 efficiently.

The NUCs are a bit too expensive though and plenty of x264 content still available.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by dtx1 »

These Werke never a good market fit. They couldnt compete with normal medium Form factor builds on price, couldnt compete with chinese small nuc like computers in the low end (ironically using Intel chips) and raspberry pis for the SOC Space.

They ended up being bad competitions for high end gaming PCs giving you notebook like power for desktop gaming prices. I'm surprised they survived this long.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by 01100011 »

blahyawnblah wrote: post #18

I've had one for about 7 years now that's been my htpc. Nice, little, quiet, and it worked great. Was thinking about upgrading soon. Guess I'll have to figure something else out.

I just performed fan-replacement surgery on the one I gave to my mom about 7 years ago. Still works great for her other than the fan that died. Not extremely easy to replace but not bad and it only cost about $15. I looked into replacing it but a quick search didn't turn up anything comparable for less than $500.

Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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Post by paulrpotts »

ortusdux wrote: post #25

This could be good news for Framework. For me, the ability to upgrade a laptop's main board and then use the old one like a NUC is a big selling point. As their userbase grows it will be easer to pickup used boards for cheap.

I guess? I mean, I would happily consider a Framework mini-PC, but buying literal laptop boards when I don't actually want a laptop, and then having to, what, cobble together a power supply and case, etc? I found it a lot more convenient to buy a barebones NUC, put in some Crucial RAM and an SSD... considerably cheaper too.
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