Best Fanless PC
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Just looked it up - and I am quiet perplexed and curious at the same time. What use is a Win 10 PRO on a device like that? Not windows S not Home edition but the expensive Pro license? As a user what feature of PRO do you use?
PS I have a Minix Neo X-8H. One fine day I suddenly remembered my stash, dug it out of the cupboard but could not find its power adapter. I started experimenting with the power plugs of my WiFi routers one by one and Oops! One of them was a 12v supply... Poof! Burning smell of electronics and a 11k investment gone! Sigh!
unleash_me
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I'm sure you know the differences between those versions, and hence the questions. I'm assuming there may be people who might want the Pro specific features in the form factor this comes in. Personally, for my home and HiFi use, it doesn't matter. I just wanted the slightly better specs.
PS I have a Minix Neo X-8H. One fine day I suddenly remembered my stash, dug it out of the cupboard but could not find its power adapter. I started experimenting with the power plugs of my WiFi routers one by one and Oops! One of them was a 12v supply... Poof! Burning smell of electronics and a 11k investment gone! Sigh!
For what it's worth, I've been using Minix products for a while now. Got the Plus and Pro models at home; and an original that I gave away. So far so good, no problems!
Both the above mentioned NUC's have a fan. However, for a fanless solution you can place the NUC in an Akasa Newton chassis (bios tweaking required). Power it up with an external linear power supply like the Uptone Ultracaps 1.2 & you have a decent computer for music.
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renjith lal
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What about sonic Transporter? I think they ship to all places.
Yes Renjith, this is on my radar, however for now I want to avoid getting anything shipped to India. Customs is totally ridiculous 70%. Paid that for some tubes recently. Will just wait for things to subside a bit and then plan a trip to US. I am also considering another Aurender, enjoying my n100h, so maybe will pick up a n10 and move my n100 in place of a music pc.
Cheers,
Sid
renjith lal
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Hi SIdvee,
70% is too much. I got one recently and liked it.
Yeah buying N10 and using N100 for secondary system will be a good idea. Let me know if you are coming to Novi .
Wilson have launched Sabrina X
.Thanks
Renjith
Next summer, I plan to spend 2-3 mos in the US and visit Detroit for a few rounds of Golf, provided the pandemic subsides - will give you a heads-up. Yes did see the Sabrina X launch, however my next upgrade will be in the Sasha DAW range with a new room to accommodate them - have started planning for that.Hi SIdvee,
Let me know if you are coming to Novi .
Wilson have launched Sabrina X
Thanks
Renjith
Cheers,
Sid
renjith lal
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Every one wants this pandemic to end asap. Lets meet next summer.
Excellent , you are always moving a step higher. Dedicated room with Sasha DAW will be too good.
Thanks
Renjith
@sidvee
I have been curious about high end fanless PCs for sometime (sadly can't afford one which I like) and I was always intrigued by this Israeli company. Hope you will be able to find what you are looking for (but at a price). For x86 PCs check out below page:
www.compulab.com
I have been curious about high end fanless PCs for sometime (sadly can't afford one which I like) and I was always intrigued by this Israeli company. Hope you will be able to find what you are looking for (but at a price). For x86 PCs check out below page:
x86 Industrial Computers for IoT and AI | Compulab
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Can this be bought locally? I am looking to build a music server that's easy on the eye myself
Is this mini pc any good? Specifically for streaming and for playing back music files only? As a budget option I guess. It was referred to in a previous post by an FM.
Cheers,
Sid
Cheers,
Sid
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Passive_audio_enthusiast
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MacBook Air M1 ?
Maybe not at the 17K odd price that amazon is showing - considering you still have to get the RAM & SSD for this. I remember these use to be a fair bit cheaper, around 10-11K odd; not sure if the processor is different or something has been upgraded to reflect the increased price.
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Thats a no brainer for anyone looking for a high end fanless.. the performance is surely in stratospheric standards as far as fanless options go...
But way overkill (and expensive) for music playback / server alone
You can use a tiny raspberry pi. It is silent and runs Jriver MC. It can be used as an headless device and also mount your hard disks on usb3 port and act as a DLNA media server. The kernel is tiny and consumes much less power than any Windows or Mac OS device. I have all of them and a RPI4 will beat all of them if Music, File server is the only criteria. The entire OS will be less than 4 Gb. My RPI4 which has almost everything installed occupies 3.5 Gb. Also it serves my 1.8 Tb of music to all clients that need any of my music files
MusicPIpi) /home/pi >df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 15017348 3490224 10865020 25% /
/dev/sda1 3844660232 1835770128 1813522888 51% /MDrive
In contrast this is my macbook pro occupying 15Gb just for the OS
Quick Start Guide for Installing JRiver Mediacenter 26 on a Raspberry Pi
Quick Start Guide for Installing JRiver Mediacenter 26 on a Raspberry Pi
yabb.jriver.com
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If you are not keen on DIY, then there is this allo usbridge, which is basically RPI3. It has a clean USB port to which you can attach any USB dac. You can install jriver on it and also have a distribution like Moode, volumio, etc which will give you spotify + airplay + MQA, etc. Basically a full fledged media streamer
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