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It's hard to take ASUS seriously with a quote like: > this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC – greatly expanding our footpri
by bigyikes 3y ago
It's hard to take ASUS seriously with a quote like:
> this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC – greatly expanding our footprint in areas such as AI and AIoT
It's just dripping in buzzword doublespeak. The NUCs seem like cool devices, do we really have to shoehorn "AI" and -- I had to re-read this -- "AIoT" into everything?
- RandomBK 3y agoAlas, we have Wall Street to thank. Nobody really believes this - not even Wall Street - but everyone knows how the game is played and begrudgingly plays along.
- inhumantsar 3y agoHonestly there is demand for local inference in the enterprise space, especially computer vision systems, that demand more power than comparable arm platforms can provide. I could see there being a small but valuable niche they could fill.
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- dev_slash_null 3y agoI use a Nuc clone to run Home Assistant, and AI event detection for my camera network (assisted by a Coral accelerator). So I think it legitimately qualifies for those buzzwords.
- o1y32 3y agoExcept that almost nobody except random people on HN or certain reddit communities set up their own server for home assistant. Your personal interest and effort in this area really doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things -- I'm sure Asus and Intel marketing people weren't thinking about users like you when they wrote those words.
- j45 3y agoPeople have many other home appliances, no reason a local machine to provide local Cloud and home automation can’t happen. This form factor is especially neat for the amount of power per watt one gets.
- natecruft 3y agoYes. Failing to mention AI regarding any investment is basically MBA malpractice at this point. To err is human. To arr is pirate. To AI is lemming. At least it isn't yet AIoTaaS.
- hunter2_ 3y agoNow you've got me thinking of a hardware freemium model where you get some freebie IoT device on your home network, and its neural net convinces you to start paying its subscription fee (implemented with blockchain) once you're feeling done putting up with some limitation of the free version.
- scarface_74 3y agoThis was all the rage back in 1999. ISPs we’re giving away “free” eMachines with the purchase of a 3 year MSN dialup subscription.
- RunSet 3y agoAlso Juno and Netzero giving internet access for watching ads.
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd FreeDSL. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/freedsl-goes-live/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/freedsl-goes-live/
- silisili 3y agoWait the I in IoT was internet....is that...artificial internet?
- dangus 3y agoAt the same time, it’s not much to get surprised or worked up about. The marketing copy on any given PC OEM website for any particular product has always been complete jibberish. These are companies running on extremely thin margins that have minimal marketing budgets.
- hospitalJail 3y agoAsus is one of the best in class, especially bang for your buck. I suggest paying less attention to PR and more attention to specs. There is one company that is best in class for their PR/marketing, but their specs can't hold a candle if you are willing to spend equivalent money. We should applaud companies that don't overspend on mind control/psychology tricks and spend that money instead on great products.