6 Mar
2016
6 Mar
'16
9:23 a.m.
On Sat, March 5, 2016 6:56 am, Ben Bell wrote:
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:07:05AM +0100, Jeremy
Jongepier wrote:
The low end NUC is reliable and fully supported in ubuntu. I had some
issues with debian driver support when I first set it up ubuntu had them
sorted at the time. It does occasionally overheat and lock up but it seems
to be a video driver issue and might already be fixed if I upgrade the
drivers.
I can't vouch for the stability of the high end options but I have similar
spec'd notebook hardware made by ASUS and it is rock solid.
If you build one of the latest models you might need to be patient for
upto a year to get full support for all the drivers.
I would go for the i7 model if I was using it as a live performance
workhorse.
The cases are solid and portable. Chuck an SSD on it and it will be hard
to loose data due to a bump while in transit.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
Just like you say ;) I wouldn't base it on an
embedded ARM board but
would indeed go for something a bit more powerful and X86-64 based. For
booting I'd look at booting from RAM (maybe using Puppy Linux or
something like Debirf).
Debirf now bookmarked, thanks.
Soundcard will probably be USB so a good USB
I'm inclined to start with a Behringer UMC204HD. Four audio outs and MIDI
IO.
implementation on the mobo is key.
This is
where I'd start to come unstuck. Anyone got some recommendations
for the board itself? Functioning USB, no proprietary chipsets, or bits
that muck up low-latency. Ideally something that boots fast rather than
sitting around at the Press <F1> to enter setup prompt for ages. Has
anyone
got experience of the NUC stuff?