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I recently have sold and put up for sale my Raspberry Pis. I kept one for an embedded project, but I am in general tired of their endless availability issues an

by bmitc 4y ago

I recently have sold and put up for sale my Raspberry Pis. I kept one for an embedded project, but I am in general tired of their endless availability issues and terrible performance for general computing. In place of them, I got a barebones Intel Nuc that I populated with some DDR4 and an M.2 NVMe drive I had laying around. The performance from the Core i5 is great and leaps ahead of the most powerful Pis, and the footprint and cost is only a little more than a fully heatsinked and encased Raspberry Pi. My Intel Nuc is running Linux Mint flawlessly so far.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago
the problem for me is, intel NUC are EXTREMLY expensive. case in point https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Core-Mini-NUC8i5BEH-500GB/dp/B07JCF1LCL https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Core-Mini-NUC8i5BEH-500GB/dp/B07... (INR 52K or US$ 600) https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Performance-NUC11PAHI5-Thunderbolt-Pre-Installed/dp/B09BB9L9VR/ https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Performance-NUC11PAHI5-Thunderbo... (INR 42K or US$ 488) or you can get a celeron https://www.amazon.in/Intel-NUC7CJYH-NUC-Kit-BOXNUC7CJYH/dp/B07BTD3H5X/ https://www.amazon.in/Intel-NUC7CJYH-NUC-Kit-BOXNUC7CJYH/dp/... (INR 12K or US$ 139) https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a-with-official-raspberry-pi-case/ https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a-with-official... (inr 2800 or US$32) or https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a/ https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a/ (INR 2500 or US$29) so the NUC are being sold at obscene prices.... i am very much interested in buying old tech because 1. it is cheaper and has seen a lot so it usually isnt flimsy. 2. no need for warranty as the local repair scene is pretty good with aftermarket spares readily available. i broke 4-5 Pis last year because of a bad usb cable that was transferring data and i didnt realize until later the cause. anyway, i am stuck with pis with USB overcurrent problem.
- bmitc 4y ago
  At least in the U.S., you can get refurbished Dell OptiPlex Micro and Lenovo ThinkCentre M Series PCs for just over $100. I opted for the moderately more expensive Intel Nuc because I could buy the barebones version since I had some spare memory laying around that I wanted to use up. Plus, I only needed one such computer for my server needs.
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  NOS (New Old Stock) NUCs can be had for really nice prices if you're patient and don't mind having mildly outdated hardware (which will likely run circles around rPi anyway). If you don't mind buying used, the prices drop even further.
- nix23 4y ago
  Look for used Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q or M715q...thank me later ;)
- MisterTea 4y ago
  > so the NUC are being sold at obscene prices.... A question I keep asking is what happened to the cheap NUC's? This question has been bothering me since the $199 J1900 NUC disappeared years back and was never replaced by a comparative low power and low cost NUC. Instead we got $400+ i3/5/7 NUC's and some silly $1200 NUC with a skull on it for gaming. They were at one point cost effective but that suddenly stopped. Few weeks back I picked up an i5 NUC on sale for $300 from Newegg which is the lowest I've seen a quad core NUC in a long time (maybe I'm not looking hard enough). It's hooked to my TV and is just another desktop that also happens to play Hulu.
ilyt 4y ago
Pi makes sense if you need the IO it provides, if you don't, well, that's just a shitty computer

by bmitc 4y ago

2Gkashmiri 4y ago

the problem for me is, intel NUC are EXTREMLY expensive. case in point https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Core-Mini-NUC8i5BEH-500GB/dp/B07JCF1LCL https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Core-Mini-NUC8i5BEH-500GB/dp/B07... (INR 52K or US$ 600) https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Performance-NUC11PAHI5-Thunderbolt-Pre-Installed/dp/B09BB9L9VR/ https://www.amazon.in/Intel-Performance-NUC11PAHI5-Thunderbo... (INR 42K or US$ 488) or you can get a celeron https://www.amazon.in/Intel-NUC7CJYH-NUC-Kit-BOXNUC7CJYH/dp/B07BTD3H5X/ https://www.amazon.in/Intel-NUC7CJYH-NUC-Kit-BOXNUC7CJYH/dp/... (INR 12K or US$ 139) https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a-with-official-raspberry-pi-case/ https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a-with-official... (inr 2800 or US$32) or https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a/ https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-3-model-a/ (INR 2500 or US$29) so the NUC are being sold at obscene prices.... i am very much interested in buying old tech because 1. it is cheaper and has seen a lot so it usually isnt flimsy. 2. no need for warranty as the local repair scene is pretty good with aftermarket spares readily available. i broke 4-5 Pis last year because of a bad usb cable that was transferring data and i didnt realize until later the cause. anyway, i am stuck with pis with USB overcurrent problem.

bmitc 4y ago
At least in the U.S., you can get refurbished Dell OptiPlex Micro and Lenovo ThinkCentre M Series PCs for just over $100. I opted for the moderately more expensive Intel Nuc because I could buy the barebones version since I had some spare memory laying around that I wanted to use up. Plus, I only needed one such computer for my server needs.
Dalewyn 4y ago
NOS (New Old Stock) NUCs can be had for really nice prices if you're patient and don't mind having mildly outdated hardware (which will likely run circles around rPi anyway). If you don't mind buying used, the prices drop even further.
nix23 4y ago
Look for used Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q or M715q...thank me later ;)
MisterTea 4y ago
> so the NUC are being sold at obscene prices.... A question I keep asking is what happened to the cheap NUC's? This question has been bothering me since the $199 J1900 NUC disappeared years back and was never replaced by a comparative low power and low cost NUC. Instead we got $400+ i3/5/7 NUC's and some silly $1200 NUC with a skull on it for gaming. They were at one point cost effective but that suddenly stopped. Few weeks back I picked up an i5 NUC on sale for $300 from Newegg which is the lowest I've seen a quad core NUC in a long time (maybe I'm not looking hard enough). It's hooked to my TV and is just another desktop that also happens to play Hulu.

ilyt 4y ago

Pi makes sense if you need the IO it provides, if you don't, well, that's just a shitty computer