<story><title>ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfdm</author><text>I &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it&amp;#x27;s great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus&amp;#x27; SFF line.</text></item><item><author>RandomBK</author><text>I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel&amp;#x27;s NUC line was &lt;i&gt;technically profitable&lt;/i&gt; (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn&amp;#x27;t make strategic sense - especially from a &amp;#x27;competing with your own customers&amp;#x27; view.&lt;p&gt;While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I&amp;#x27;ve used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let&amp;#x27;s see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.&lt;p&gt;More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>&amp;gt; about the noise&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been thinking of getting a fanless case[1] for my Asus PN51. Akasa also makes some for Intel NUCs too[2], amongst others.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&amp;#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&amp;amp;type=FANLESS+CASES&amp;amp;type_sub=AMD+Mini+PC&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&amp;#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&amp;#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER.tpl&amp;amp;type=FANLESS+CASES&amp;amp;type_sub=Intel+NUC&amp;amp;nuc=all&amp;amp;generation=all&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.akasa.com.tw&amp;#x2F;update.php?tpl=list%2FCHASSIS+POWER...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>ASUS to manufacture and sell Intel’s NUC products</title><url>https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bfdm</author><text>I &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; been using a NUC as an HTPC for several years now and it&amp;#x27;s great, though the comments in the previous conversation about them ending the line were right about the noise.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in the market for a similar device to replace my dangerously past EOL desktop, and funny enough I have been circling around Asus&amp;#x27; SFF line.</text></item><item><author>RandomBK</author><text>I find the development quite interesting, and it lends credence to the theory Intel&amp;#x27;s NUC line was &lt;i&gt;technically profitable&lt;/i&gt; (or at least not horrifically in the red), but just didn&amp;#x27;t make strategic sense - especially from a &amp;#x27;competing with your own customers&amp;#x27; view.&lt;p&gt;While I never bought one of these NUCs myself, I&amp;#x27;ve used quite a few deployed as thin clients and kiosk machines. Let&amp;#x27;s see what ASUS ends up doing with the product segment.&lt;p&gt;More broadly, I hope the trend of selling off business units rather than closing them outright continues (Google Domains selling to Squarespace being another recent example).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>j45</author><text>Lenovo has the thinkcentre line&lt;p&gt;Dell has the optiplex&lt;p&gt;Go has the elitedesk and pro desk&lt;p&gt;All in mini&amp;#x2F;usff formfactor similar to the size of a Mac mini.</text></comment>