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Last week, I reported that Intel was exiting the NUC business, with implications to ETH stakers. This week, I am happy to report that Intel has licensed the manufacturing, support, and future design of its NUC line to Asus, who will be picking up the torch. It means that stakers will continue to have a robust option for small-form-factor nodes.
https://www.servethehome.com/asus-and-intel-agree-on-deal-for-a-nuc-future/
I'd add that there are many more good options for small form factor nodes. Intel's marketing for NUC worked well, but it's still marketing. As if to prove my point, a colleague just walked in with the Dell Optiplex 7010, which would be a great option for a node if Dell could get their collective heads out of their asses and ship them as barebones, or if you can find someone to offload that useless stock 8GB of RAM / 256GB SSD on
Check out my post on my $35 Ethereum node/validator. I'm not done yet but you can follow the progress there.
https://caches.xyz/forums/discussion/building-a-35-open-source-ethereum-endpoint-node/
that's very cool, I like stretching things further than they were meant to. But many people are busy and have more money than they have time, for them it makes a lot of sense to invest in hardware so that they don't have to invest time