Our comments on this publication:
SureUnderstanding358 - "man that sucks. they generally rock as far as small compute goes."
persondude27 - "Big shame. Love these little buggers. Used one as my work desktop since maybe 2017? Great to just leave on my desk and keep work totally separate from all my personal stuff."
plexomaniac - "Maybe Intel just made them to create a new segment and then sell chips for other makers that jumped into it. They never intended to be a strong competitor."
zendick1 - "I mean this is exactly what they did, Intel will often do this to create a new device market, this just ran really long"
Indolent_Bard - "Yeah, beelink and minisforum are awesome. Got a used one for my mom's new computer so that she could have the desktop there was the size of a PlayStation controller, it's absolutely perfect."
hibi_chan - "$280 and ‘workstation’ do not go in the same sentence"
doxx_in_the_box - "Skull Canyon NUC was GOAT"
mennydrives - "I still have one. If Thunderbolt drive enclosures weren’t so ridiculously expensive on a per-bay basis, it would be my primary fileserver."
apresskidougal - "Deployed hades canyon for a desktop development refresh and we loved them."
doxx_in_the_box - "I meant Hades when I said Skull but design is similar enough. That feat. AMD was special."
SureUnderstanding358 - "i have a bunch of the Xeon units deployed...maybe 30? IPMI and full PCIe was swell."
fgc_hero - "My old IT job had a client that ordered about 25 of these for digital signage deployment. They wound up going out of business and my CTO at the time gave me 2 because he wanted to get rid of them haha"
Asuka-02- - "Seems like some of these Chinese vendors make some decent products like Beelink and Miniforums."
thrownawaymane - "Ignoring the honestly racist tone of the comment you replied to they do make a good point that I haven't seen truly tested. It's hard for me to trust any fly by night company with a box in my house, Chinese or not."
DatTF2 - "While I haven't tested one there's plenty of tech Youtubers who have and don't really hate on them or have much bad top say, I mean you could always just wipe the OS and do a fresh install, unless there's backdoors built into the BIOS or something. Those two brands seem like they make decent enough products to rival Intel's NUCs."
stromm - "There’s backdoors built into the hardware. It’s a requirement of the Chinese government. Hit mainstream when IBM sold off its desktops and laptops to the company owned by an ex-Chinese military General and Intelligence senior officer… Lenovo."
az4521 - "there are backdoors built into all American CPUs (and proprietary operating systems) it's a requirement of the NSA. that's why China has its own Longsoon or loongson or whatever MIPS CPUs, and Russia has Elbrus VLIW CPUs"
thrownawaymane - "(citation needed)"
az4521 - "the citation is that it came to me in a gasoline-fume induced hallucination (divine inspiration (message from god (allaha) ) )."
