RE: NUC

2019-05-12 Thread Ken Schaefer
I have an Intel NUC for my media centre PC. Similar footprint to an Mac Mini, but more flexible in terms of ports/access etc. When I last replaced my desktop, I bought an Alienware Alpha R2 (which I don’t think you can buy anymore). It was just that much bigger and more flexible (proper GPU

RE: NUC

2019-05-09 Thread eddie.debear
I know of a company that uses NUCs in each of their stores (Fast food chain, fairly hostile environment for computers). These NUCs are running Win 10 Pro, hosting Virtual Machines under Hyper V, and are mission critical in their operations. I believe they have had one NUC fail in 2 years

Re: NUC

2019-05-09 Thread Grant Maw
Thanks for the info. Still use the VM in the cloud but wanting something local for other things. These units looks like they are super-flexible, small and easy to move etc On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 15:28, Stephen Price wrote: > I have the skull canyon nuc which is a beast, but the fans are qu

Re: NUC

2019-05-08 Thread Stephen Price
I have the skull canyon nuc which is a beast, but the fans are quite loud even when you out it in quiet mode. M.2 drives and powerful cpu. There is a newer model which has an AMD GPU on board but I am not sure if it's any quieter. Probably not. There are some fanless models too which would

Re: NUC

2019-05-08 Thread Alan Ingleby
ion to Intel's NUC > recently, and was wondering if anyone had any positive or negative > experiences with these? > > > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/boards-kits/nuc/mini-pcs/business.html > > Thanks > -- Alan Ingleby

NUC

2019-05-08 Thread Grant Maw
It's time for a new dev PC. Someone drew my attention to Intel's NUC recently, and was wondering if anyone had any positive or negative experiences with these? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/boards-kits/nuc/mini-pcs/business.html Thanks