Recent content by Packabowl09

To play devil's advocate, yes you can. And it includes a Windows 11 Pro license: https://www.amazon.com/GMKtec-Nucbox5-Desktop-Computer-Windows/dp/B0B75PT2RY And to further play devil's advocate, in my limited 8 years of being a sysadmin at an MSP, I'd argue 75%+ of small-midsize businesses use...

Just to play devil's advocate: That $699 includes 1TB SSD and 32GB of RAM. If you part it out to assume 1TB SSD = $75, 32GB ram = $75, and Windows 11 Pro = $199; then the PC itself does come pretty darn close to your magic $299 number. Just theoretical though - no one is actually paying $199 for...

Might be worth the markup to buy from a US company that has better support than Minisforum, especially if this is for professional use. It was such a pain getting my Minisforum PC back online after I reformatted it. No drivers available on their website for my model, Windows update wasn't able...

Office buildings make crappy apartments. Each apartment needs 1-2 bathrooms, whereas each FLOOR of an office building only gets 1-2 bathrooms.

Uber hackerz like you are not the target audience. You might be surprised by how often workers need to do Zoom or Teams meetings with webcams. This is pretty handy - USB ports are often in short supply on modern computers.

6 M.2 slots and yet no mention of a 10gbps ethernet port? What's the point? Why do I have to keep wasting PCIe slots on 10gb NICs?

Do people realize how much 66kg of 6082 aluminum costs in raw materials alone? Plus the labor and machine costs of CNC milling all of that? Of course it's going to be expensive

I'm honestly kinda surprised by the results. Much newer than I thought. I am still rocking 1st Gen Ryzen 1600 and an RX580 8GB. Crazy to think that card I got for $200 in 2017 has as much vram as current model Nvidia cards worth over $600!