On 10/21/2014 12:46 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: <snip> >> >> Nice devices but are they fanless? > > No, but they are very quiet. > Bummer, I wouldn't trust on a device that has fans for on stage use. >> They also seem to be fairly big, I >> guess a Cubieboard is 4x as small as a NUC board. But I haven't really >> compared the measurements yet so I could be wrong. >> > > This particular model has a slightly larger case. The other models are not > as tall. The physical size is approx 10x10x4cm so they are very portable > and the solid aluminium casing is very robust. > > Cubieboards are also very good units but they have some drawbacks too. > They are not as powerful as a Celeron and they require cross compiling > everything. Not entirely true, most of the software is readily available in the repositories. If you need unpackaged software or newer versions of software you need to recompile, yes. I've got a toolchain set-up for this (an ARM chroot with everything installed needed for Debian packaging) and it would also be possible to do this on the device itself. But indeed, on a x86 machine it's not as trivial as building stuff for x86 itself. IIUC, they also don't support the same amount of memory. > No idea ;) Never checked that actually since most devices I know don't come with memory slots or memory chips that can be piggybacked. > As a stand alone device the NUC's can do very well as a relatively low > cost processing unit. For the same form factor you can also get an i5 > chipset. I'm not sure if they have released the i7's yet but they are > probably just around the corner. The top end i5's are very close to the > same speed as an i7. Yeah, I'm definitely going to check them out, such a device would be awesome as a multimedia player. So thanks for the info! Jeremy
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