It's amusing how glacial the crumbling process is for behemoths like ibm and intel
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
#42I always wanted to like these, but they seemed consistently overpriced by like 30%. I'd price one out with all the necessary parts, and by the end it was always like, why am I not just buying a mac mini (or an RPi, for lower-intensity applications)?
I would say there's a huge performance gap between the most powerful Pi and even a Nuc mini from 6 years ago. Hard to consider them in the same ballpark, use-case-wise.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#43I tried a few different SBCs for my HTPC before biting the bullet and shelling out the $500 for a 11th generation NUC. It was worth every penny, as I've had zero issues with it since.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#44I call BS on them being not good market fit, Apple does totally fine with mac mini. also these are just laptops w/o screen and battery. IMO the real reason may be worries around minipcs finally getting good enough that they may cannibalize higher margin PC market. BTW there are other vendors like Beelink that make semi decent tiny computers and I have one of those as my teenage kids pc,works just fine.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#45I always wanted to like these, but they seemed consistently overpriced by like 30%. I'd price one out with all the necessary parts, and by the end it was always like, why am I not just buying a mac mini (or an RPi, for lower-intensity applications)?
I had the same feelings - I'm sure I would have bought one (at least) if they didn't have such a premium price attached.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#46Second-hand HP Elitedesks with Ryzens offer much better bang for buck - and are quieter & less power hungry.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#47My NUC Phantom Canyon is completely 100% silent after adjusting the fan curves to not turn on the fans until they're needed. It's awesome as an HTPC.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#48I always wanted to like these, but they seemed consistently overpriced by like 30%. I'd price one out with all the necessary parts, and by the end it was always like, why am I not just buying a mac mini (or an RPi, for lower-intensity applications)?
I can just put Linux on it and I'm done. I love mine.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#49Of 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…
The modern ones have thunderbolt 3 or 4, so you have to get a dongle, but you can get a lot more IO going (including 10G)
Great point. But also I think a company like Intel deliberately segments aka removes useful functionality from cheaper systems, wanting to protect the very profitable, more expensive systems with better ethernet or whatnot.
Re: Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC
#50This 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.
They sell a case for $40 on their site. Assembly is about as complex as adding Crucial RAM and an SSD to a barebones NUC. For power, you can use just about anything that will deliver 60W+ over USB C.