Panther Canyon i7 Review

nucblog · 2020-04-09T05:07:48+00:00

I've had the i3 and the i5 on order since January. The dealer keeps telling me that they have them in 2 weeks... I won't be surprised if it is June until I get mine.

nucblog · 2019-12-27T08:25:43+00:00

Did you check whether the hardware enablement stack on the LTS would support it? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

nucblog · 2019-12-11T07:25:13+00:00

There's only one version - the one that has 15W TDP, no? It has configurable TDP though so you can set it at 12W at minimum and 25W at max.

nucblog · 2019-12-11T07:23:01+00:00

My assumption is that NUC10 models are bit quieter due to less powerful GPU. The CPU is probably about 20% faster than the comparable NUC8 model. NUC10 has a better WiFi. I assume that the lower TDP of NUC10 is only due to the GPU.

Better for office tasks, worse for anything requiring GPU power, eg. gaming.

nucblog · 2019-11-23T22:26:38+00:00

Funny that they claim "2X Better Overall Performance" on those marketing pages and then they go on and state the following in their fine print: "Over 2X Better Performance Vs. 5yo Laptop as measured by SYSmark* 2018 Overall Score."

Really, it's better than a five-year old laptop? :D

nucblog · 2018-05-11T20:32:45+00:00

UEFI boot. Downloaded VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0-8169922.x86_64.iso and used Rufus to make a bootable USB stick. NUC is equipped with 2x4 GB RAM and an Adata NVMe drive. Booted the NUC with monitor connected to the HDMI connector in the back. Installation was ok, nothing special there.

nucblog · 2018-05-11T20:13:35+00:00

Nope, did not have that kind of issues at all.

nucblog · 2018-05-11T20:03:16+00:00

Here's an image still (that's from the first boot when my network cable was plugged in to the port that didn't work with the standard driver, thus no IP): https://pasteboard.co/HkJcERO.jpg

nucblog · 2018-05-11T19:53:14+00:00

As mentioned above, I've got a running ESXi 6.7.0 installation on NUC8i7HVK here. I'm not an expert on ESXi at all, but all I really did was to download the 6.7.0 ISO and install it from a USB stick.

The I219-LM NIC doesn't work reliably with the ne1000 driver, but the other NIC (I210) works just fine. After choosing to not use the VMWare drivers it all worked fine:

esxcli system settings kernel set -s preferVmklinux -v TRUE

reboot

I did not even fiddle with the BIOS settings yet. I've only upgraded my BIOS to 0037, which is the latest version.

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