[RTTY] Intel NUC, anyone?

[Neal Campbell]

If, instead, you want high-power machines in the small form-factor, I can
heartily recommend the Gigabyte NUCs. They can take desktop i5s and i7s and
perform like you would expect a
'normal' system to run.

73


Neal Campbell

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On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a couple year old NUC and it performs perfectly with Windows 10,
> N1MM+, MMTTY, 2Tone, GRITTY, my rig, and Winkeyer.
>
> I have closely watched CPU usage but would be surprised if it was sucking
> down more than 10% of the CPU.
>
> The NUC is nice and small and portable, but you're looking at $300+ for a
> NUC with memory and a small disk drive which is not especially cheap, then
> you have to buy a Windows license too.
>
> If you're looking for a cheap shack computer, any of the $99 refurbed
> corporate PC's out on the market will do fine. They all come with Windows
> installed. I've been using $99 refurbs in the shack for many years now.
>
> I end up using the NUC as my travel computer even when I'm just visiting
> conference rooms in my employer's buildings. I can plug it into a TV or
> projector and boot up Windows 10 and start a Powerpoint presentation in
> about 20 seconds. Contrast that 20 second boot up time with the several
> minutes bootup time of my corporate laptop with all the junk software my
> employer has installed on it.  The NUC has bluetooth and works perfectly
> with wireless keyboards/mouse at a distance which is ideal for giving a
> presentation.
>
> Tim N3QE
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