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A Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB Ram or a Intel NUC Skull Canyon
by IloveHN84 7y ago
A Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB Ram or a Intel NUC Skull Canyon
- tannhaeuser 7y agoA Pi is too weak for my workloads I'm afraid ;) Actually I considered a Hades Canyon (successor to Skull Canyon) with an early Intel 10th gen part but it has it's iGPU disabled and comes with a Radeon (!) GPU which just calls for trouble and additional cooling, though it's still much better than nvdia for Linux I guess. But then I'd rather go all-in on AMD CPUs which are winning in the bang-for-buck and multi-threaded department anyway. Plus, I don't want lasercut skull-shaped grilles and similar gaming traits if I can help it ;) Edit: also it's already out well over a year, and given Intel's atypical immaturity wrt their 9nm parts, it might be better to skip on this one
- mvanbaak 7y agoAfter the latest update the mac mini is actually a very fine server. They can be configured to hold a 6-core i7 with 64gb RAM.
- tannhaeuser 7y agoNot bad I guess, though I failed to find a decent review telling even what CPU and wattage the thing has, let alone how to run it with Linux. Haven't considered a Mac Mini for the job since mine is so dog-slow I'd rather run CI on my notebook.
- mvanbaak 7y agoHave a look here: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-3.2-late-2018-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-c...
- tannhaeuser 7y agoSeems the new Mac Mini will only run Mac OS or Windows: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/2018-mac-mini-blocks-linux-here-are-alternative-small-form-factor-pcs/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/2018-mac-mini-blocks-li...