Why wouldn't you just buy one of the plethora of existing Mini PCs?
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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External PCIe seems to be their selling point. Also, why not welcome competitive form factors and options? That is, of course, if it's competitive. No pricing in this article, but if I had to imagine they're probably going to retail near $300, but I don't think they'll be competitive with sub $150 n150 machines at that price point.
why not welcome competitive form factors
My question is whether it's competitive. Because it looks like a gimmick to me. The other options seem to have a lot more choices and options.
Plus IceWhale sold my information so I don't trust them.
If you want PCIe there's no shortage of USFF office PCs from Dell and Lenovo.
It very well could be an expensive gimmick, their last Zima boards certainly were. As for the selling of your information, thank you for the warning.
I need an OSFP interface and the plethora of shit doesn't have that.
What's that?
Fast network
Is that different from SFP+? Cuz I don't see that on this thing either. Matter of fact I don't see any special ports at all.
Pretty sure he's confusing it with either SFP+ or SFP28.
OSFP is the current bleeding edge with 400Gb/s of bandwidth. The current primary use case for that is ISP networks or running datacenter scale computing. The going prices for a PCIE card seems to be about 2k and around 600 for a DAC-Cable alone... compared to this 200$ mini PC, OSPF is in a completely different customer segment.
I'm confusing nothing. Osfp is my desire. I have a purpose in mind. How else do you load an OS onto hundreds of AI hosts?
Yes this is expensive, my company will be supplying it
But the ZimaBoard has OSFP?
I've been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They've been out of stock.
Finally! I was waiting for a version of the original zimaboard with a modern/competitive processor. Such a versatile little device.
I will definetly be intrested if they have switced their network adapters, ive been looking for something to replace my router with OPNSense
I've been eyeing the protectli for this
And here I just migrated to a lattepanda mu. Fuck.
looks firewally