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Originally Posted by montagdude
I thought we were talking about idle power. In any case, my zbox uses much less than 30W even under load, so his claim that a bigger, 30W machine (whether he meant under load or idle, it wasn't clear) renders mini PCs like zboxes and NUCs as "overpriced craps" is nonsense. My zbox was under $200 with everything. You'd be hard pressed to call that overpriced, regardless of its performance. I'm just tired of people passing off their opinions as if they were incontrovertible fact, like LuckyCyborg did.
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See my previous post, please!
LuckyCyborg said very clear that his numbers are for a "medium usage" then a "medium load", which I understand to be:
- NOT while the computer is idle
- NOT while compiling Firefox with "-j5", as he do sometimes
Also he said very clear that that 30W includes the consumption of a 3.5" mechanical hard drive, which he uses as storage, otherwise the consumption will be around 20W, which is clearly better than your ZBox.
However, I think is unfair to compare a gaming console with a proprietary operating system like ZBox, good only for playing games, with a general purpose computer, sporting 1.240GB of storage space.
Regarding of "overpricing", please remember that those $200 have different values on different places of the World. Many people works a month for those money, then they may expect some certain performance for this price.
And yes, the NUCs are felt as "overpriced" even where I live, considering the offered performances, which are abysmal.
In fact, what I observed here is that the price is much higher as the cases or motherboards are smaller, so I understand why he chosen a bigger case and motherboard, as a compromise.
