USB 3.1 (TB3) .....sooooo cheap

[Simon Dunne]

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5786#ov

If i was building a rig. I'd have a few of these in my arsenal. £420. No brainer IMO

 

[Steve Sherrick]

What kind of performance are we looking at? I can think of a few possible uses for them but wondering if anyone has any real world experience with them?

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

The Intel NUC design, which this is based on, is the mainstream PC response to the Mac Mini. Performance is pretty crappy usually -- stuck with quad-core CPUs, small memory sizes, on-chip GPU and in a form factor that likes to overheat if you push it too hard or choose too much CPU.

OTOH, for a general purpose computer that can do pretty much anything other than high end video or CAD work and you don't expect to play the latest games, it's not a bad way to go. I think the best usage for such a thing in regards to R3D workflows would be as an offloading or media management station. Might be more convenient and affordable than a small notebook PC if you already have monitors you can connect to. It could be a more powerful workstation than most of the notebooks out there, but it's lacking a discrete GPU option that the good notebooks give us.