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Intel's New Mini PCs Have New Chips, an Updated Design, and Thunderbolt 3 (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In the last four or five years, Intel's "Next Unit of Computing" (NUC) hardware has evolved from interesting experiments to pace cars for the rest of the mini desktop business. Mini PCs represent one of the few segments of the desktop computing business that actually has growth left in it, and every year the NUC has added new features that make it work for a wider audience. This year's models, introduced alongside the rest of Intel's new "Kaby Lake" processor lineup at CES, include new processors with new integrated GPUs, but that's probably the least interesting thing about them. Thanks to the demise of Intel's "tick-tock" strategy, the processing updates are minor. Kaby Lake chips include smaller performance and architectural improvements than past generations, and the year-over-year improvements have been mild over the last few years. The big news is in all the ways you can get bytes into and out of these machines. There are two Core i3 models (NUC7i3BNK and NUC7i3BNH), two Core i5 models (NUC7i5BNK and NUC7i5BNH), and one Core i7 model (NUC7i7BNH) -- that last one is intended to replace the older dual-core Broadwell i7 NUC and not the recent quad-core "Skull Canyon" model. The Core i3 and i5 versions come in both "short" and "tall" cases, the latter of which offers space for a 2.5-inch laptop-sized SATA hard drive or SSD. The i7 version only comes in a "tall" version. Like past NUCs, all five models offer two laptop-sized DDR4 RAM slots and an M.2 slot for SATA and PCI Express SSDs (up to four lanes of PCIe 3.0 bandwidth is available). Bluetooth and 802.11ac Wi-Fi is built-in. As for the rest of the NUCs' features, Intel has drawn a line between the Core i3 model and the i5/i7 models. All of the boxes include four USB 3.0 ports (two on the front, two on the back), a headphone jack, an IR receiver, an HDMI 2.0 port, a gigabit Ethernet port, a microSD card slot, a dedicated power jack, and a new USB-C port that can be used for data or DisplayPort output (the dedicated DisplayPort is gone, and this port can't be used to power the NUCs). In the i5 and i7 models, the USB-C port is also a full-fledged Thunderbolt 3 port, the first time any of the smaller dual-core NUCs have included Thunderbolt since the old Ivy Bridge model back in 2012.
http://hackaday.com/2016/11/28/neutralizing-intels-management-engine/
You pulled a Hillary.
Slashdot polled the elite, and Hillary won.
Suggestion for Intel: just put in it a second gigabit ethernet (with OSS drivers, please) and become the king of the security-concious/I-like-to-control-my-network crowd. I would buy it just to avoid searching into the compatibility matrix of Tomato/OpenWRT/etc
Win second is the favorite place of hillbama.
Been waiting for them to put 2x Intel 10/100/1000 NICs on these things since they debuted.
They'd make killer pfsense boxes when Intel finally grows a brain and does this.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-s-400-billion-debt-worries-analysts-6812264.php
Everything about CA and silicon valley is a giant circus. They depend on other states to consume their non-important entertainment services and goods. They can't even supply themselves with water.
CA talking about seceding from the US is like Disney World talking about seceding from Florida. Neither one would last all that long after being cut off from the things that are required to keep a civilization going.
I don't expect you to even read a word of this, just have fun with the next 8 years of President Trump, because your bullshit is partly what made people angry enough to vote him in.
Thunderbolt just reminds me how "Intel appear to be doing whatever they can to limit application of Thunderbolt to eGPU by making vendors use 25W PCIe slots, instead of 75W or making Thunderbolt enclosures way too expensive. *Appears* to be a company survivalism/profit strategy to prevent migration towards CUDA/OpenCL GPU-based processing instead of Intel's CPU processing."
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Whereas the AMD model, unless it turns out that the single encrypted blob is actually multiple blobs, like in the intel firmware, is a single signed os image booted by the ARM Trustzone processor built into the newer CPUs/SoCs as a 'management, encryption, and authentication processor'.
If it turns out not to be a chain of encrypted blobs like the Intel ME firmware turned out to be (after 6-8 years!) then it will be impossible to disable or replace it without AMD offering a 'trustzone kill' signed image that does nothing other than spin the cpu up, or if it MUST provide more features, provide the source code and prove how the size matches when encrypted or signed.
But no firewire port. *Insert sad face here*
Another little device not powered by the common power available in industrial or commercial or automotive power systems. For many use cases this is a non-starter, and the number one reason I bought a Fit-PC instead.
...and the typical insanely high Intel price tag. 500$ for a tiny PC with limited upgrade options that doesn't even come with RAM?
I pulled a Hillary in the bar the other night. After a few beers, and with enough lube, she was just fine.
You might like to pretend that *California* alone rejected Trump, but those 3 million votes weren't Californian. They were in gerrymandered states, and states that inexplicably had record absentee ballot.
If you want to see bankrupt, go look at Trump's business empire. His income isn't enought to cover the debt repayments, he's up to $2 billion in the hole, and all his assets are overmortgaged both to banks and to outside investors.
Yet to hear it from Trump, he's massively successful, makes $500 million profit a year and is only 300 million in debt.... yet keeps borrowing, $18 million here, $5 million there..... r-i-g-h-t... I was born yesterday and cannot spot fraud when it is soooo blantant.
He still hasn't split himself from his company, he still owns foreign income businesses, and when you go through the bits of the books he couldn't conceal you realize why. His only hope is Putin's rubles.
That's Trump logic, Cities don't block vote as if they're a single entity, *people* in the cities vote, and there's no reason why all the people in a city would vote, borg like, for a single candidate. They don't now.
Your traitor Trump is now quoting Julian Assange as authoritative: 'Assange says Russia didn't provide the hack, CIA are stalling for time to make up the evidence against my snuckums Putin'.
Seriously, a Presidential wannabe attacking CIA, NSA and FBI for doing their job, while defending a foreign government hack of the elections? CIA should release the papers on Trump Co. there's no way Trump was getting money from Panama funds and CIA didn't spy on him. Given his dishonest, there's no way that money is clean. With Putin having $2 billion in Panama, and Trump getting suspicious money from Panama, he's hiding something.
You might claim it wasn't Russia, but CIA and FBI say otherwise, they've released the details evidence.
No, no they haven't, likely because they have nothing. Probably why they refused to attend a congressional oversight committee meeting to present the evidence - because they don't have anything. And they certainly haven't released any details.
A part of the Silicon Valley hive mind debunked this Russian hackers thing so why are members of the peanut gallery still even clinging to it?
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
I sure wish these things could run Mac OS out of the box. I'm not sure the Mac mini or Mac Pro will ever be refreshed.
I've tried a few models NUC and Intel Stick over the last few years, the fans are tiny running at a million RPM so they would start whining a few minutes and then crash because the thing got too hot.
Wake me up when they come with a sub-$100 model that has 4G of memory and runs Android, Linux and doesn't overheat. If I wanted a $400 barebone, I'd buy from any number of manufacturers that had the thermal stuff figured out a decade ago (eg. Shuttle) .
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Sounds like this would make a great little media box, but it's a shame it doesn't (appear to) have HDMI CEC support -- it looks like adapters cost about as much as a Raspberry Pi (which supports HDMI CEC out of the box!).
It seems like a silly feature, but it's been incredibly useful for my RPi media center -- the ability to switch between an app (Yatse) and a physical remote is very handy.
Why must all hardware be only in black and silver?
Apple did only a few things right, and attractive hardware is one of them (the others were: having a gadget ready to use after unboxing, and streamlining the interface to eliminate fiddly, irrelevant and distracting bits).
Every time I look at new machines, I am struck by how we insist on making them uglier than dump trucks.
Alternative Right.
ECC memory or it's just more useless junk.
It's about time India's Mini PCs were released. Who's a third world country now ?
Since 1 dec 2016 I got a new job and was allowed to choose my own laptop, but I choose a NUC6 i5 with 2x 24" screens, and put Linux Mint 18 on it. The first few days it totally froze on me a few times, but after upgrading to Mint 18.1 and Cinammon 3.0.6 it has now run uninterrupted for 2 weeks already.
I have the CPU temperature and performance monitor in the footer, it is currently 39.3 deg Celsius without any noise at all (I have no music on so it is totally silent here). I run PhpStorm, 2 Firefoxes with in total 21 tabs, a terminal with 3 tabs, 1 vagrant VM, 1 Chrome browser with 4 tabs, 1 file manager and 1 PDF viewer. It is not cheap, but a lot cheaper than laptops with the same specs. Colleagues with Win of Mac laptops do have their fan running audibly.
My previous PCs were a MacMini and an MacBookAir, but I would not want to switch back.