These ones specifically? Not sure. NUC style are decently popular as SOHO PCs.
Asrock Industrial, which is a separate brand from Asrock, have a bunch of fanless and caseless models for dusty industrial, retail, and custom applications.
For some reason, these are sold under Asrock Industrial brand. I don't see why they couldn't sell these under the Mars or Jupiter series.
For Folks doing any Graphics related Workloads Like Blender 3D GPU Accelerated Cycles Rending that's a GPU compute workload then Intel's Meteor Lake actually has very good iGPU Compute API(via OenAPI/Other Intel compute API) support on Linux whereas AMD's ROCm/HIP is not supported for Radeon iGPUs. And so Blender 3D 3.0/Later editions on Linux will not have the needed iGPU compute API supported for workloads like Blender GPU accelerated Cycles rendering.
And really there are many GUI based Linux Desktop Applications that make use of GPU compute so that's either OpenCL or for Blender 3D 3.0/Later editions that requires ROCm/HIP for AMD and OneAPI for Intel. And AMD's support for Desktop GUI based Linux Applications and GPU compute API support(OpenCL/Other) has always been lacking while Intel's Graphics and GPU compute API support on Intel iGPUs is shaping up very nicely for Intel Meteor Lake iGPU/GPU-Tile that's based on ARC graphics IP.
Graphics arts students will be better off getting Meteor Lake based devices and especially on Linux where iGPUs have become very powerful over the past few processor generations! But no matter how powerful the iGPU the Graphics and GPU compute API support has to be there and that's especially true for Blender 3D's GPU accelerated Cycles rendering where the Ray Tracing/BVH and Ray Intersection calculations are a GPU compute workload and thus GPU compute API(OpenCL, ROCm/HIP and OneAPI) is required and where AMD's support for it's OpenCL and ROCm/HIP is just not been well supported on Linux.
These are laptop parts (consumer grade) and won't support ECC really, although DDR5 has some ECC "lite" built in in a way. IF they release an intel "VPRO" version of this at some point that will have full ECC most likely
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meacupla - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
I am hoping they used a smaller GaN power brick this time around. The 120W from the older model is larger than the PC itself.Threska - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
Have to wonder what industry will be using these boxes?meacupla - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
These ones specifically? Not sure.NUC style are decently popular as SOHO PCs.
Asrock Industrial, which is a separate brand from Asrock, have a bunch of fanless and caseless models for dusty industrial, retail, and custom applications.
For some reason, these are sold under Asrock Industrial brand. I don't see why they couldn't sell these under the Mars or Jupiter series.
FWhitTrampoline - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
For Folks doing any Graphics related Workloads Like Blender 3D GPU Accelerated Cycles Rending that's a GPU compute workload then Intel's Meteor Lake actually has very good iGPU Compute API(via OenAPI/Other Intel compute API) support on Linux whereas AMD's ROCm/HIP is not supported for Radeon iGPUs. And so Blender 3D 3.0/Later editions on Linux will not have the needed iGPU compute API supported for workloads like Blender GPU accelerated Cycles rendering.And really there are many GUI based Linux Desktop Applications that make use of GPU compute so that's either OpenCL or for Blender 3D 3.0/Later editions that requires ROCm/HIP for AMD and OneAPI for Intel. And AMD's support for Desktop GUI based Linux Applications and GPU compute API support(OpenCL/Other) has always been lacking while Intel's Graphics and GPU compute API support on Intel iGPUs is shaping up very nicely for Intel Meteor Lake iGPU/GPU-Tile that's based on ARC graphics IP.
Graphics arts students will be better off getting Meteor Lake based devices and especially on Linux where iGPUs have become very powerful over the past few processor generations! But no matter how powerful the iGPU the Graphics and GPU compute API support has to be there and that's especially true for Blender 3D's GPU accelerated Cycles rendering where the Ray Tracing/BVH and Ray Intersection calculations are a GPU compute workload and thus GPU compute API(OpenCL, ROCm/HIP and OneAPI) is required and where AMD's support for it's OpenCL and ROCm/HIP is just not been well supported on Linux.
hubick - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
These would make a good NAS box. I plug my ZFS array into NAS via Thunderbolt, but I also need ECC memory and there's no mention of support :-(HideOut - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
These are laptop parts (consumer grade) and won't support ECC really, although DDR5 has some ECC "lite" built in in a way. IF they release an intel "VPRO" version of this at some point that will have full ECC most likelynandnandnand - Sunday, December 24, 2023 - link
The ECC "lite" in DDR5 does not count for anyone seeking true ECC support AFAIK. It's something needed to make DDR5 usable at all.AMD is releasing a lot of Pro APUs. For example, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U which would be virtually identical to this except for the lower clocked XDNA.
meacupla - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
Intel officially does not support ECC for 155HThe only mobos that support ecc ddr5 sodimm, that I could find, were IMB-X1238 and IMB-X1240-WV
stanleyipkiss - Saturday, December 23, 2023 - link
The HDMI 2.1 is the most compelling feature for me.GoldenBullet - Sunday, December 24, 2023 - link
https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-u...I think the um780 is the best right now. Better features in general.