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The Velka3 could be used for a compact SSD-based FreeNAS (or Unraid) build with a dual SFP+ 10Gb (and potentially QSFP 40Gb, but who has switches with those) single slot pcie card...I suppose in single slot mode one could install 2 x 2.5” Micron 5210 Ion 7.68TB drives...plus more m.2 blades like...

This is sandwich style SFF for the masses, plus you get laptop CPUs/motherboards that normally aren’t readily available. It’s “normal” that it’s not super appealing to people that already know how to plan and assemble something like that.

CPU is a BGA variant so maybe not exactly comparable. Also the motherboard is based on mobile workstation chipset Intel CM246, apparently. Also -ish doesn’t say much, probably cooling is different. Only mod I would do is bare Mini + bare eGPU board + tb3 drives aplenty within a Powermac G5 or...

Crossing fingers for FaceID too on next year (possible and yet unrumored) Apple Pro Display..

Also if you prefer 21:9 over the 16:9 of the imac 5K, the just available LG 34wk95u (5K minus the upper 1/4, can’t be driven by “mere” 4K machines) would be the perfect companion for this 5K capable Mini...at 5120x2160, this is the first ultrawide ever that can give you a vertical real estate of...

They definitely favor sound over thermals...hope they struck the right balance with this new “new course” Mini...can’t complain much about my last 3 (2009, 2010 and 2014, all still used) but I do nothing sustainingly stressful...I maxed out the 2014 (i7 3.0Ghz + 16GB soldered) thinking it would...

We have no evidence those temps read by sensors embedded in the CPU reflect the surrounding temps within the case...for what it’s worth: - RAM is free floating at an angle over the CPU, within an airy cage - SSD’s flash modules are on the front, not adiacent to the CPU area - SSD’s controller...

Here around 2:00 to 5:00 the guy shows sustained 6 cores x 3.9GHz (all cores turbo spec like i5-8500) at 100% at 96-97C no throttling (he tried several minutes) and gentle blower sound; this is on the i5-8500B (base 3.0 boost 4.1). The i7-8700B (base 3.2, boost 4.6, HT, all cores turbo 4.3) is...

Better not to have an on package parasite GPU to steal cooling and power from the CPU half in a system that can use 4 external Vega56 gpus anyway..

No they aren’t... Those are 65W coffee lake CPUs with desktop-grade frequencies in a BGA variant...that’s the whole reason this release is awesome and unexpected based on the Mini track record... Probably these ones...

I hope the snazzylabs guy is joking when he says he doesn’t know what the speaker for troubleshooting chimes is for..

them heatpipes, yeah baby...the heatsink that gets all the focused blowing from the asymmetrical (= sound optimized) blower...this is CPU cooling in a compact height p0rn...

Now that I think about it, how come we can’t swap the boot drive of phones? Outrageous! Maybe, just maybe, there are huge advantages in terms of predictabilty? Apple in 3 words: unrestrained by legacy. Weird T2+flash storage system? Check. Remove F keys? No probs. Crazy fast (just look at the...

It’s a bit packed in there with the new blower with supposedly 2x airflow...can’t wait for iFixit to disassemble it... On the iMac Pro they use 2 striped removable “brainless” flash modules...the brain (controller and its RAM) being in the T2 (an iPhone-grade ARM SoC soldered on the...

I wouldn’t use a Time Capsule, that’s ancient by now. I was thinking of a Lacie D2 thunderbolt 3. If I gave up thunderbolt 3 for just usb 3.0 (probably enough for little hourly backups), then the mentioned OWC ministack could be an option https://www.owcdigital.com/products/ministack again...