However, for any other situation it’s just a hard sell. Maybe this thing could be a good fit for businesses who might be looking for a really small efficient rendering machine for editing, maybe a little bit of 3D work, or if you’re running a gaming cafe this could be a really good fit too.
#INTEL POWER GADGET INSTALL HANG WINDOWS 8.1#
Nowadays, beginners can go out and buy a pre-built Mini-ITX system that will cost a lot less money than the NUC 9 Extreme. Intel’s new Compute Stick, available for about 150 with Windows 8.1 and 110 with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, takes the mini desktop concept about as far as it can go. It will reactive itself automatically once it is connected to the internet. I mean sure it’s super compact and surprisingly easy to work with, but this seems designed and priced in the past, before the small form factor space got so competitive. When asked for a product key click on 'I don't have a product key', 'Skip' or 'do this later'. There is tons of potential here, but my main problem with the NUC 9 Extreme really comes down to price. In fact, this is just a notebook without a display, keyboard, trackpad, operating system, and it runs a previous generation CPU. This product is not targeted towards the enthusiast DIY market. In the end, here is the question that I keep asking about being NUC 9 Extreme: Would I buy it? The answer to that is a simple No. Instead of calling this Next Unit of Computing (NUC), they really should have called it Last Gen Unit of Computing because the specs are quite frankly outdated. Furthermore, it is a questionable choice by Intel to include a 9th Gen CPU because they are already rolling out 10th gen Comet Lake processors on notebooks. If you move into desktop category you can get an insane amount of horsepower for that price. Before moving on, I do need to mention something very important, if you look at the NUC 9 – specifically the Core i9-9980HK system – and you spec it out with storage, memory, graphics card, monitor, and an operating system, it’s going to cost as much as a gaming laptop or even more than that. For the time being the Core i9-9980HK model will set you back a little less than $1,700 USD. I also need to mention that these are Intel provided prices and it looks like a few of them are already popping up at online retailers. The Core i5-9300H based system is going to run you around $950 USD, the Core i7-9750H is going to be around $1,110 USD, and the Core i9-9980HK which is the 8-core/16-thread based system is going to cost you $1,550 USD. Starting with version 3.5 and going forward, only the 64-bit version and Windows 8 will be.
#INTEL POWER GADGET INSTALL HANG INSTALL#
The price for all of this is not cheap, in fact it’s rather expensive. Windows 7 and 32-bit versions of the Intel Power Gadget for Windows has ceased development from 3.0.7. Ubuntu Make file error, trying to install intel power gadget 13.10 c make I hope another Ubuntu user has tried to run Intel power gadget and knows what problem I am having.