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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by asciimov on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:54PM (#36781946)
Biggest problem with the Mac mini is it has no user upgradable parts, nuc does.
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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by lostlogin on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:55AM (#36782262)
That’s less of an issue than the price.
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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by wkat4242 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:00AM (#36783699)
It causes a price issue because Apple's upgrades are extremely overpriced
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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by katbyte on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:29AM (#36786959)
Nah the biggest problem (for intel macmini) is there is no easy t2 applesmc support in the Linux kernel so you have zero fan control without patching and building a new kernal and I never figured out how to do it

I have my old Mac mini and a 10th gen nuc in a proxmox cluster and they are basically the same. except I had to upgrade the nuc to give it nvme and 10g where as the macmini already had that. And then because I lack fan control on the mini slap a giant heat sink on top and point some fans at it

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