Looking for something small yet mighty? The TUXEDO Nano Pro was just announced and not only is it tiny, it seems like it will pack quite the performance punch with AMD Ryzen.
Officially labelled as the "TUXEDO Nano Pro: The Nano Pro - Gen11", they say it's "the perfect digital signage solution for digital media content in advertising and information systems as well as a home media station for the living room or an ultra mobile home or work PC". Smaller than a shoebox, diagonally about the size of a standard pen - it really is quite small (110 x 118 x 48 mm).
The base configuration with the AMD Ryzen 3 4300U and AMD Radeon graphics chip starts at an entry-level price of €640 EUR and includes 1x8 GB 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM, a 250 GB Samsung 860 EVO SSD, Wi-Fi 6 AX200 as well as TUXEDO_OS 20.04 LTS pre-installed.
You can customize it with better processors like the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U and AMD Ryzen 7 4800U, up to 64GB RAM, a 2TB M.2 SSD, a secondary SATAIII drive up to 4TB and a choice of different Linux distributions. Some of which are easily upgradable too with RAM and storage easily accessible with the removable base plate.
A pretty reasonable number of ports too including HDMI 2.0a and DisplayPort 1.2a, two USB-C 3.2 Gen2 ports with DisplayPort 1.2a, two Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports (1x 1 Gb, 1x 2.5 Gb) as well as 3x USB-A (1x USB 3.2 Gen2, 2x USB 2.0).
If I wanted to hook something up to my TV that wasn't a Raspberry Pi, I would definitely be looking at something like this.
Check it out on the TUXEDO website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: twinsonianThe thing is these small form factor machines are pretty cool for their size but they fall in a weird middle ground area of cons.The specific feature of this form factor is that they can fit on a VESA mount so they have zero footprint. Like an all-in-one, but trivially serviceable: take one off, put another one on.
Avehicle7887 Nov 4, 2021
Also way to expensive.
Last edited by Cioranix on 5 November 2021 at 1:30 am UTC
doomwarriorx Nov 5, 2021
https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-4800U
I had a forum post about (fanless) sofa-pc with a Asus PN50 which is more or less the same thing. I updated the ASUS with a fanless case "Akasa Turing A50".
Quoting: CatKillerQuoting: twinsonianThe thing is these small form factor machines are pretty cool for their size but they fall in a weird middle ground area of cons.The specific feature of this form factor is that they can fit on a VESA mount so they have zero footprint. Like an all-in-one, but trivially serviceable: take one off, put another one on.
I always wonder: What would I do with the space spared under my table?
I don't get the whole class of devices, as I see the compromises made (choose some of performance, noise, extendability), but not the gain.
This machine is way overkill for these purposes, but at the same time, I like the ability to upgrade the internals.
Quotea secondary SATAIII drive up to 4TB
It looks like you can configure up to 8TB.
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