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, bi

RE: NUC

2019-05-09 Thread eddie.debear
, and this was due to an SSD failing. Ed. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Friday, 10 May 2019 10:06 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: NUC Thanks for the info. Still use the VM in the cloud but wanting something local for other things. These units looks

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 quite lo

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 be su

Re: NUC

2019-05-08 Thread Alan Ingleby
I used an older i7/16G Ram/256SSD model as a dev machine for a little while. Nice little unit, but it really did not handle the occasional evening Minecraft session well enough for me. ;) On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 12:53, Grant Maw wrote: > It's time for a new dev PC. Someone drew my attention to In