Uses an older end of life processor (Celeron N3350) from 2016 with known reliability issues--- probably obtained cheap due to liquidation.<p><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-apollo-lake-refresh-degradation-cpu-failure,40362.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-apollo-lake-refresh-...</a>
I love stuff like this but I’m trying to understand what the mass appeal would be compared to a NUC or Brix which seem more technically capable and also have a very small form factor.<p>As near as I can tell, the differentiators are the ability to daisy chain them into a cluster over a high speed bus, a relatively low price, and some platform/App Store play like Synology or QNap.<p>So it’s somewhere between a Brix and an RPi, I guess, in the price/performance balance, and then the software ecosystem is part of the selling point as well for most people. It seems like you’re buying the guts of a qnap without the drive bay hardware, and btw you can build a cluster of ‘em if you have that need for performance or HA.<p>Cool. Will be interested in seeing how it evolves.