Inside the house that Asus built: New NUCs and powerful laptops

[Admin]

We visited the Asus HQ in Taipei for a technology briefing, to enjoy some NUC desktop and ROG laptop hands-on time, and to glean exclusive hardware design insights.

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[Fjccjc]

In reality and unnoted in the article, the Intel/Asus transition of the NUC system has represented a complete failure on Asus’ part to abide by the terms of the agreement with Intel and a complete abandonment of the entire population of millions of earlier-generation of NUC owners. Under the terms of the agreement, Asus was obligated to support the prior 12 generations of Intel NUC products. This meant, at an absolute minimum, maintaining availability of prior generation drivers, bios files and critical information regarding component compatibility since Intel wanted to save trivial costs in maintaining its existing file library. Instead, because Asus could see no financial gain in supporting the older products, they have chosen to ignore entirely their contractual obligation to support the pre-Asus NUC units. This is unfortunately all too similar to Asus’ regretable recently reported behavior in honoring warrant claims on many of its recent products.

 

[sjkpublic]

Gotta love NUCs. Make sure you do the DD and get one wtih great cooling that is quiet, eGPU and other options, and can support at least 128GB of memory. Of course, PCIe 5 is now the minimum along with at least 2 NVME slots.