Damn, this is a sad day for the homelab.
The article says Intel is working with partners to “continue NUC innovation and growth”, so we will see what that manifests as.
Damn, this is a sad day for the homelab.
The article says Intel is working with partners to “continue NUC innovation and growth”, so we will see what that manifests as.
Again, it really depends on what you are using it for.
“Gaming laptops” are often fairly horrible for temperature control. But otherwise? Most modern laptops have performance comparable to the average desktop that has poorly applied thermal paste and was never maintenanced in its existence.
Say for modest/patient gaming.
Then yeah. Steam Deck. GDP Win whatever the hell, Aya Neo, or (if you don’t expect to ever need any customer support) the asus one.
Bang for your buck? Those rival (arguably beat if you aren’t a youtuber with a warehouse full of free parts) desktop builds, tend to have okay-ish thermals, and don’t have many battery issues when docked. And most of them double as mediocre “normal” computing experiences on top.
Well personally for me not a handheld because I still want a computer for office and things like that (and not cheap one because the more RAM the better). I’ve seen people fiddle with their steam deck but I don’t want to bother with that.
So mini itx then?
You really don’t have to fiddle with the deck to anywhere near the degree people think you do. The vast majority of games either “just work” or involve switching your proton version (one menu). Beyond that, it is just adjusting game settings until it runs well… which is needed for “modest/patient gaming” anyway. And the windows based devices (including a steam deck running windows?) get rid of the proton aspect.
But yeah. It very much sounds like you want a “real” computer. So either save your fingers and sanity and go for a mid tower or have fun cable managing an htpc/mini-itx build until you have some semblance of airflow.
I meant fiddle to get it to work as a desktop.
That is even less fiddling. Too lazy to go plug it into my hub so going to use the device buttons, but this works with m+kb if you have one plugged in
And congrats. You are in a KDE Plasma (best desktop) environment that behaves perfectly normally.
Not sure of a good way to change the default after a reboot (google it), but that is the extent of faffing about.