Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 4 Aug 2025 08:37:35 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ncfl$1i3j7$1@dont-email.me> <106otv7$1sov2$3@dont-email.me> <106p5l8$1u8pt$1@dont-email.me> <106p7bq$1uggd$1@dont-email.me> <106p99c$1uv2b$1@dont-email.me> <106pfje$1vp0f$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EuyAcG9NMwU5WWUj7oQR+QIoBIcy4Qvzm3I3FkJW5p6bRNz/b2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wxUq7oBt/FVLvSQq/gS7iih6RoA= sha256:X2xNFU8uS9ox05eHqjpqHqPhV13GV7PsdJRmxzVrmsI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70322 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21655 On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 05:14:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 23:26:36 -0400, Paul wrote: > >> I don't think NUC was a business driven model. It was a tech push >> project by a team inside Intel, to "see what it would look like if >> Intel did it". The Business people then segmented it above mini-ITX >> and charged higher fees for the stuff. And the NUC was eventually >> dumped ... > > But they didn’t quite dump it, instead they passed it off to another > vendor (Asus). If/when Asus decides they can’t make the business model > work either, then presumably they will abandon it, to much less fanfare > than if Intel were to be the ones doing it. Both the Intel and Asus NUCs are overpriced for what they are. If Asus drops out of the mini-PC market tomorrow they won't be missed. https://www.techradar.com/best/mini-pcs