<div dir="ltr">Those NUCs are pretty neat, actually.. I've been patiently waiting on the I5 and I7 prices to come down so I can start replacing my "full size case" computers with these low-power-consuming, space saving NUCs.<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 at 12:39 L.D. Paniak <<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I have had good luck with fanless Zotac "NUC"-likes recently eg.<br>
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Tough to beat the price with dual gigabit, wifi, BT, USB-C and HDMI.</div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br>
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Those are nice. The one with the case has an onboard CPU (or so
it seems), so needs RAM and disk. The other one does not see to
include a CPU. It is always vague with these listings on eBay,
isn't it?<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Ron
Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A couple of
solutions(from China, so ship time will be a while) for
the mobo(sans ssd/ram) and a kitted solution(again,
without ssd/ram) based on the Intel Celeron J1900 SOC --</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-New-4-LAN-J1900-Mini-ITX-Fanless-motherboard-Q1900G4-M/263105808367" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-New-4-LAN-J1900-Mini-ITX-Fanless-motherboard-Q1900G4-M/263105808367</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fanless-Mini-Computer-Barebone-2-Gigabit-Nic-4-USB-VGA-HD-COM-Intel-J1900-Nettop/162546020408" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Fanless-Mini-Computer-Barebone-2-Gigabit-Nic-4-USB-VGA-HD-COM-Intel-J1900-Nettop/162546020408</a></div>
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<div>Thanks,<br>
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Ron Singh<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It should, but I am evaluating the
alternatives before committing to an RPi 3.<br>
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11:47 AM, CrankyOldBugger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com" target="_blank">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>></span>
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understand the requirements, but would a
$50 Raspberry Pi do the trick?
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I
just had a thought and hammer
the idea of a laptop a bit
more:-)</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">See,
Reality Bytes in Elmira has
some X220T tablets for less
than 200 bucks/i5/4G/320G hdd)
and I think one of these
mounted on a wall will afford
a touchscreen interface to
quickly look at stats and will
not take up too much space,
about 12" x 10" I would think</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">As
a reseller, they do the grade
"B" X220T to my form for some
$160, so I think the retail is
around $190-$200.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A
headless solution, tucked away
would be the best and very
clean, but man, the $$$ is
significant.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Perhaps
some old Intel NUC based on an
older i3 or i5 would be
perfect too if you can find
one cheap o Kijiji or Ebay.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I
haven't looked at NUCs in
quite a while with mostly the
Atom-based units being
fanless, Mebbe the i3-32xx
boards can be had fanless too.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">A
few years back we did some DFI
mini-ITX boards with i5-520M
as packet sniffing appliances
for a local client and those
boards had 4 NICs, watchdog,
wireless, but no GPIO. Seems
like anything fanless and with
GPIO becomes "industrial use"
with an "industrial" price
attached:-(<br>
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