Recent content by mlee 2500

Who is gonna fab it?

Yeah, I'm sure this was a total mistake or accident. Nobody was sneaking a profit here counter to their agreements with the VAR. Even worse, MSI has such a sketchy past nobody would ever even give them the benefit of the doubt. Was considering maybe going MSI for my 2080 a couple years back...

Of course it would be trivial for Apple to make a tweak to their OS to brick all of these. Not saying that they would, but that's the risk you would run buying one of these for the express purpose of running OSX.

All good reasons for going SFF. If you're just building a pfSense appliance then have you considered one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0742P83HY/?coliid=I2IFP21UX1S4GN&colid=OPP23FFKXWBH&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it They're VERY small and silent. Even the more powerful ones though...

Yeah, if you want a larger selection of compatible parts and the more competitive pricing that comes with that then SFF usually isn't the route to take. I certainly never saved any money building that form factor, and in fact it usually entails substantial compromise. In my experience the...

I used to build SFF. Then I realized that consuming ~25% more surface or floor space wasn't really an issue for me, and that I could far more easily build a quieter machine using a larger radiator with larger and more slowly rotating fans. To say nothing of the wider range of parts available...

Finally some progress in this area....real 4K + Gsync at more than 60Hz on a screen larger than 27" without going T.V. size. I just don't see myself going VA panel again, especially on a screen that's larger than my field of vision by default. But Acer's first 4K panels were VA before they...

I ran a 6 minute mile once, about a decade ago, so I still tell everyone that I can.

Because AMD confirmed it? They make the Ryzen CPU.

That's a good point Math Geek; hopefully though this is just the beginning of Intel getting more serious about GPU's. It's not uncommon for a device maker to enter a market at the mid or lower tier (and despite their existing integrated graphics, that's what this really is...Intel beginning to...

Call me old fashioned, but I put my GPU directly inside my computer.

Uh, it's an extra 1 inch x the perimeter of the screen, so it's a HUGE amount of additional real estate by monitor standards, especially laptops. If you want to make a valid complaint, complain about the stupid and pointless touch bar. You know, the whole "move my hand from the mouse or...

I will say this: EVERY house I've ever had, no matter how good the WIFI coverage, I've always wished that I had cat5 (well, cat6 now days) in every room.

If you're going to call these fees excessive then you better have a solid grasp of the costs involved in developing these technologies (and their utility to the applications that leverage them). I have my doubts that is the case here.

Yeah, I mean, if I had a use case where I really needed a small PC.....then I think it's simply great that they can be built. But after having shuttle sized SFF PC's just sit next to my desk for years, and suffering all the compromises they entail (will the latest GPU fit? Will the SFF power...