Let me bring you up to speed: It was so far the bestest mini desktop PC I’ve come across and now, some weeks later, my friend Logan of the Tek Syndicate YouTube Channel reviewed that thing too:
Heyyy, you’re still looking for a Linux distro tester? Shame on you. But you can be helped, if you just order one of those nifty machines and have it delivered to you right underneath your favourite rock. As Logan so rightfully stated, the Azulle Inspire ain’t one of those typical low power, low price machines but can be a real powerhouse computer if you want. Perfect.
Thar She Blows! 
But but but it has a U sku chip..which is kind of low power. You can get a proper desktop chip cute little mini PC like this! π https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158048&cm_re=asrock_mini-_-56-158-048-_-Product
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Oh, you mean this one?
https://orcaflotta.blog/2017/12/30/and-another-mini-pc/
Yesterday’s news, hun, old and tired. π No, you’re right since after that story I should’ve stopped with all the SFF and USFF computers. The Asrock does them all. The version I reported on was a bit more expensive and featured a real Nvidia 1060, which brought it out of our price range. The version you linked to brings it right back into the cheap af Linux tester league. Cool. Merci beaucoup. I’m gonna do a bit of reasearch on it now. Oh, LGA 1151? That’s a bit outdated by now, isn’t it?
And yes, of course does the Azulle feature mobile chips, it’s made to save energy. But still powerful!
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LGA 1151 is 6th and 7th generation…6000 and 7000 series Intel, outdated? I dunno if I would say they are outdated. Yeah sure 8th gen is out now, good luck finding em.
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LGA 1151 is 6th and 7th generation…6000 and 7000 series Intel, outdated? I dunno if I would say they are outdated. Yeah sure 8th gen is out now, good luck finding em. An i3 6100 is faster than the mobile i7..just saying, powerful is a relative term..giggles.
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Ok, little confuzzlement on my part. I thought my i5-4690 was LGA1151, and that thing is old now. Turned out it’s 1150, so one generation older.
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the 4690 is a 4th gen part LGA 1151 is 6th and 7th gen
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I am pretty sure building the Asrock mini (Non gpu version) is the cheapest way you can build an actual modern desktop PC with a full desktop chip. I mean 137 bucks for the motherboard, case and power supply…just add the cpu and some So-Dimm Ram and you are done. If you wanted a super cheap linux box, I dont think you could do it cheaper…and don’t forget you don’t even need a core chip, you could use the pentium g4600, which is actually a pretty great budget cpu
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Well, my Acer netbook features a Pentium and it doesn’t give me much joy. Once my Linux is up it’s kinda okay but the boot process takes forever on that litle weakling. π¦
I agree with you on the Asrock topic. The version without gpu loks to be a very cheap way to get above average power for a small budget. Will make a post about it soon.
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WHat generation Pentium is your acer tho? These things matter…for example..the current 8th gen pentium is literally the 7th gen i5..no difference whatsoever performance wise.
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Pentium N3530, Haswell generation I guess.
This is faaaar behind any i-Proci. Even the i3 in Gaga is running circles around OrcNet. π¦
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Also laptops have slower than spinning hard drive drives, throw an SSD in there
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Excuse me! OrcNet costed me the princely sum of 300 β¬ and is a couple years old by now … plus it’s a self-destructing Acer shitputer. I won’t invest any money into that thing! If I get another SSD it will go in Gaga!
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LGA 1151 fits skylake and kaby lake, the socket actually fits the new coffee lake but intel decided to make a new platform thinggy to make more money so it wont work.
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