Over the past years, we have reviewed half a dozen Intel NUCs – ranging from the very powerful NUC 9 Pro, which is basically a small form factor (SFF) Xeon Powered workstation, to a NUC7CJYS powered by a dual-core Intel Celeron J4005 processor. Now we’re on to something entirely new, the Simply NUC Ruby R8

Announced way back at CES 2021, time sure flies, Dell announced a slew of new computers and monitors. Among those announced was the new Dell OptiPlex 7090 Ultra. This little computer actually fits within the monitor stand of Dell monitors, and other stands. It can also be mounted to the back of monitors. It is

Gaming seems to always be increasing. It is no longer a young person’s hobby as people of all ages tend to game, even old fogeys like me.  For the longest time, PC gaming was the dominant market force. If you wanted the game to look the best and have the best controls, PC is where

We’ve been looking for value lately, whether it’s the sub $200 TrueNAS platform that included both SSD boot and 10GbE. Or the budget PC for home use that had an SSD and Windows 10 for under $150. The problem though when it comes to Homelabbing is that these value options, or even something nicer like

HP has refreshed its ZBook line of workstations. This includes an entry-level workstation, the HP ZBook Power G8. The company is referring it to the most affordable mobile workstation (though this may lay in the eyes of the user, their budget, and what they consider a workstation). Though the budget model, the HP ZBook Power

HP has refreshed its ZBook line of workstations. Of those announced, is the HP ZBook Studio G8 billed as the most powerful mobile workstation of its size. The Studio is aimed at being balanced between mobility and performance, obviously, if the highest performance is the goal, there are a lot of desktop options out there.

We recently reviewed the latest Intel Optane P5800X SSDs that can take advantage of PCIe Gen4 (outside of AMD platforms) thanks to the latest Intel CPUs.  Optane SSDs in servers make a lot of sense, the incredible performance profile makes caching and tiering exceedingly useful. For professional users with hungry applications though, purposing enterprise tech

In Q1 2021, Intel launched their NUC 11 line of systems which come equipped with 11th Gen Intel Core processors and are broken into four different categories: Enthusiast (Phantom Canyon), Performance (Panther Canyon), Pro (Tiger Canyon), and Compute Element (Elk Bay). Each one of these categories is unique and built for a different type of

The HP Z family has been a stalwart line of professional-grade PCs created to meet the needs of intensive use applications like those used by design professionals and data scientists. With the new G8 series of systems (yes, HP jumped from G5 to G8) HP launches with the new Intel 11th Gen Core (Rocket Lake)