• @[email protected]
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    288 months ago

    You usually don’t need a PC that small. For this price ($250) you can just get a Beelink with a better CPU. Or an older model mini PC for $120.

    Don’t let these manufacturers convince you that you need their latest and greatest whatever.

    • @assembly
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      208 months ago

      I’m still buying the older NUCs on eBay for crazy cheap prices and slapping in new nvme drives which have been cheap along with cheap RAM. I end up with 32gb memory 1tb cluster nodes for like $175. Works great in the KVM, VMW, and HyperV lab deployments I need to test in my home labs. I will say that with the AV1 codec support this is interesting as a Jellyfin server though with connection to my NAS. It’s been tough getting cheaper codec capable CPUs.

      • @[email protected]
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        68 months ago

        Compare the stats for the CPU, memory, and hard drive. Every one is slightly different, so I can’t tell you what to get.

        Form factor usually doesn’t matter. You’re not going to be looking at it all the time and showing it to people. It’s a desktop.

        They’re trying to trick you into not just comparing the specs and deciding on price. Pick a decent brand so you know the chipset is good and just look at the stats.

        • @Hackerman_uwu
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          58 months ago

          They’re not doing anything evil offering another form factor.

          These may very likely not be desktops for some people. First thing I thought of is mounting one of these behind TV as a Plex server.

          People can buy something they cooose to for the reason they choose to buy that thing.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          28 months ago

          In my head, I just want something I can leave plugged in for a few years. Something that can run Linux comfortably and can let me check out new cool things and do the occasional photo edit. My phone is very much my primary computing device.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          Pick a decent brand so you know the chipset is good and just look at the stats.

          Is Minisforum a good brand? Do they use quality parts in their miniPCs?

          Thinking of picking up one of those for server duty.

    • @bandwidthcrisis
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      38 months ago

      I like the idea of fanless because it’s one less thing to fail. With an SSD, it means no moving parts.