Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Product Line Forward

Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by kcb on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:27AM (#36782112)

Having to spend $200 per 8GB of RAM and $200 per 256GB of storage like it's still 2012 pretty much destroys any value proposition from Apple.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by adastra22 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:47AM (#36782528)

You can put a 4tb drive on a USB port.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by tjoff on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:32AM (#36782793)

Such hacks just to get trapped in apples ecosystem? How can that be appealing?

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by criddell on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:46AM (#36784358)

How are you trapped in the ecosystem?

A Mac Mini can run more software than any of their competitors (you can’t install macOS on a VM on a Windows or Linux host but the reverse is possible).

Even on the hardware side you are free to connect third party drives, monitors, keyboards, etc…

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:11AM (#36785717)

You can actually install Mac os in a VM on Linux or Windows. It's not a technical issue, it's that Apple tries to make it hard to do so.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by criddell on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:57AM (#36786422)

Yeah, it’s a legal issue.

My point mostly was that if you buy a Mac Mini, you aren’t really trapped.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by tjoff on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:23AM (#36786881)

The kind of mental gymnastics people go through...

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by criddell on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @11:46AM (#36788322)

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by ecosystem and trapped. Care to elaborate?

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:58AM (#36783678)

*That's much slower and higher latency than the internal storage.

And where do you plug in the extra RAM?

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by Kon-Peki on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:09AM (#36785689)

This thread is talking about HTPC, and I'm wondering what the use case is where you need lots of RAM and the speed/latency of an internal NVMe drive.

My HTPC is about 12 years old, and I'm pretty sure that the internal SATA SSDs are slower than a modern external USB3.1 drive. Yet it does everything I ask of it with no noticeable delay.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @09:44AM (#36786206)

>This thread is talking about HTPC

No, the thread is not mentioning HTPCS but about NUCs, which can also be used to do productivity work/games, not just watching movies, so exqueeze me that I want/need a system with 16GB of RAM and some decent storage in mid-2023 to be productive and am not contempt with the bare minimums of 8GB/256 and being price gouged for any drop over that.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by Kon-Peki on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:09PM (#36788707)

You are exqueezed. While the overall topic is about NUCs, this particular thread of conversation appeared, to me, to be about HTPCs. Nevertheless, the existence in the marketplace of computers with underwhelming specification does not in any way diminish your techno-self-worth or invalidate your needs and desires.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by fadedsignal on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @10:43AM (#36787242)

Not if you use Thunderbolt 4 SSD (enclosure)

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:03PM (#36793342)

Yes, spend $600 on an base iMac Mini then spend $800 on an TB SSD with $200 worth of NVME inside it because ... logic ???

Meanwhile a 12th-Gen NUC with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD costs ~$240 on Amazon, and you can replace the internal RAM and SSD with whatever size and models you want.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by kcb on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:16PM (#36793526)

A 1 TB NVME SSD is like $40 retail these days.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by FirmwareBurner on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:30PM (#36793715)

He said external TB SSDs not USB SSDs. Check how much those cost. TB SSD of 4TB is like $1000.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by fadedsignal on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:14PM (#36921654)

Hold on a sec. I said enclosure such as https://www.amazon.com/USB4-Enclosure-40Gbps-Compatible-Thun... Then you can put whatever nvme ssd you want. It'll most likely cost around $500 at most.

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