While the original ZimaBoard shipped with Intel Apollo Lake processors that were already more than four years old at the time that the board launched, the ZimaBoard 2 is powered by a current-gen Intel Twin Lake processor that should bring a significant boost in CPU and graphics performance. The company says users can expect a 200 percent performance boost, even though the new model runs cooler and quieter and uses less power while idle.
I thought a lot about buying the first version of this. Glad I waited. Very cool. Homelabbers: have some gear lust to start your weekend. Happy Friday!
Why wouldn’t you just buy one of the plethora of existing Mini PCs?
External PCIe seems to be their selling point. Also, why not welcome competitive form factors and options? That is, of course, if it’s competitive. No pricing in this article, but if I had to imagine they’re probably going to retail near $300, but I don’t think they’ll be competitive with sub $150 n150 machines at that price point.
why not welcome competitive form factors
My question is whether it’s competitive. Because it looks like a gimmick to me. The other options seem to have a lot more choices and options.
Plus IceWhale sold my information so I don’t trust them.
If you want PCIe there’s no shortage of USFF office PCs from Dell and Lenovo.
It very well could be an expensive gimmick, their last Zima boards certainly were. As for the selling of your information, thank you for the warning.
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What’s that?
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Is that different from SFP+? Cuz I don’t see that on this thing either. Matter of fact I don’t see any special ports at all.
Pretty sure he’s confusing it with either SFP+ or SFP28.
OSFP is the current bleeding edge with 400Gb/s of bandwidth. The current primary use case for that is ISP networks or running datacenter scale computing. The going prices for a PCIE card seems to be about 2k and around 600 for a DAC-Cable alone… compared to this 200$ mini PC, OSPF is in a completely different customer segment.
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But the ZimaBoard has OSFP?
Finally! I was waiting for a version of the original zimaboard with a modern/competitive processor. Such a versatile little device.
I will definetly be intrested if they have switced their network adapters, ive been looking for something to replace my router with OPNSense
I’ve been eyeing the protectli for this
And here I just migrated to a lattepanda mu. Fuck.
Hey just a quick heads up. We (my company) deployed around 40 Zima boards to a client for digital display usage and we keep running into boot device errors. It’s been a headache. Head my warning, don’t use these for anything important.
Very appreciative of the heads up! This is the first time I’ve seen feedback from someone who’s worked with them.
looks firewally
I’ve been waiting a few weeks for my zima blade 7700 to ship. They’ve been out of stock.
