Fuck, they could just OEM the whole thing to Asus and rebrand it and still come away with a fuckton of profit.

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99PROUSB_31/
Older Model, probably $300 new when it came out...

Or this http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EP2C602

$350 from Newegg. Convert one of the PCI x16 slots into a Thunderbolt port... Update to DDR4, maybe.

XEONs pack a hell of a wallop in cores.

Do that, at half the price you're charging for the Current ash-can.

And give me an upgraded home Mac MIni. Something halfway between what we got now and a Future 36 core (2 cpu) Mac Pro.

If it's Free, it's going to be used to gather data from you and then resell for value.

Period.

Even if it's not free, odds are your data is going to be aggregated and sold.

It may be anonymized to some extent, but get a large enough sample of data from enough sources and you can be deanonymized.

To anyone choosing to suck on this carrot, may I remind everyone what happened with Internet Explorer and Sypglass?

My mistake, there were a few i7 processors with >=8 cores

https://ark.intel.com/Search/FeatureFilter?productType=processors&CoreCountMin=8&FamilyText=Intel%C2%AE%20Core%E2%84%A2%20Processors

You are most certainly correct. To replace dual E5450 would require an 8 core i7.

E5450 is LGA771

i7 is not. So you WOULD need a new motherboard. Quite likely the memroy would work (DDR3 and ECC) .

There are NO 8 core i7 processors.

Either way, you're looking at $4-500 for a modest increase in TDP and cache, and maybe burst performance.

> rather need more than 6GB RAM

This right here.

I'm sick of downpurposing CPUs and being restricted to some stupid memory limitation. The NUCs are a fine example of this.

They'll last 10+ years most likely, and in those 10 years still be limited to 8GB - 16GB.

The only reason I'm updating some of my Atom machines is memory limitations, and I'm doing it with non-bleeding edge stuff. Intel doesn't really like the hobbyist I guess.

Or run your own DNS with Digital Ocean for $5/mo.

Email too if you want.

> yay for the cloud?

Yay for MY cloud.

I use FreeNAS, but have Plex running on a NUC with an external USB drive that I make internet accessible in a DMZ.

I'm not wasting my RAIDZ space on FLAAC audio.

Cost me $150 for a lifetime plex subscription to have offline sync on my phone/tablets.

Screw the cloud.

Not sure if you remember, but back before Ares became a thing a bunch of NASA insiders proposed Jupiter, which is what SLS obviously evolved from. Seeing how history played out makes me angry that 5-7 years was wasted on Ares.

But you are right - if SLS is a viable product, maybe ULA and Orbital ATK (Thiokol) should foot the bill for it and compete for launches.

Seriously, what would it take to get a Rpi Based KVM?

Open source BMC is one place I figured would get some traction - all options are like $300 minimum per node. I'm lucky, my Supermicro boards come with BMCs, but again, not open.

pfSense on a $120 PC-engines.ch APU.

3 ethernet ports and enough CPU to handle everything most home users need.

> The US can't even attack North Korea, which would be WW3-lite. Loss of life wouldn't be the problem

Just an aside, the NorKs have enough artillery hidden in the mountains to burn Seoul to the ground, and we have very little in the way to stop it short of pre-emptively nuking them.

You know, I can't really get myself worked up over this whole "Russia bought Trump" nonsense. Especially when the Establishment has given us nothing but Bushes and Clintons for 20 years.

Obama was an out-of the-blue manchurian candidate I don't think anyone expected.

It takes about three years to build a supply chain for some of this stuff. Short of a shooting war, this "dominance" is reversible. Someday price parity will be reached, and it will make sense to make shit here again.

Trump is many things, but stupid is not one of them.

I trust him about as much as I trust Hillary, which is not at all, but neither was or is stupid.