Damn, this is a sad day for the homelab.

The article says Intel is working with partners to “continue NUC innovation and growth”, so we will see what that manifests as.

  • EDRBd97kWbT2KzK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Intel NUCs were very good machines but honestly they were completely overpriced compared to Chuwi/Minisforum/etc.

    My guess is they were just not enough sales, that’s all.

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      1 year ago

      What’s the Chuwi Equivalent to a Nuc? Not being snarky, im genuinely looking for a small server.

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        Yeah, mini-computers are one thing, but the NUCs were more than that. Having a PCI-E card that you can slot into your computer to literally run a PC inside your PC is super unique and not something anyone else offers.

        Sad to see them drop this. I can understand that it’s not an in-demand market segment, but it was cool none-the-less

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          Having a PCI-E card that you can slot into your computer to literally run a PC inside your PC is super unique and not something anyone else offers

          My hope has been from the start that that product line would lead to some compute module-style clustering motherboards for really clean & compact x86 clusters. It would especially make sense for dedicated server/VPS providers which already rely on similar dense blade systems from Supermicro.

          Imagine a box that would take 3 of them, give each a PCIe slot and an NVMe slot, and an then give you 3 power buttons, 3 sets of IO and maybe an integrated network switch so you only need 1 Ethernet cable to connect the swarm to your network. That would be useful not just for clustering in homelabs and SOHO but also for offices and such if they want to reduce the physical footprint of their PCs while maintaining pretty good serviceability for “go swap this PC out” scenerios

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      1 year ago

      Oh lort. You just gave me flashbacks. One of my kids bought one of those $200 Chuwi laptops and it would barf all over itself about once a month, so badly it would require a reinstall.