While the original ZimaBoard shipped with Intel Apollo Lake processors that were already more than four years old at the time that the board launched, the ZimaBoard 2 is powered by a current-gen Intel Twin Lake processor that should bring a significant boost in CPU and graphics performance. The company says users can expect a 200 percent performance boost, even though the new model runs cooler and quieter and uses less power while idle.
I thought a lot about buying the first version of this. Glad I waited. Very cool. Homelabbers: have some gear lust to start your weekend. Happy Friday!
Why wouldn’t you just buy one of the plethora of existing Mini PCs?
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My question is whether it’s competitive. Because it looks like a gimmick to me. The other options seem to have a lot more choices and options.
Plus IceWhale sold my information so I don’t trust them.
If you want PCIe there’s no shortage of USFF office PCs from Dell and Lenovo.
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I need an OSFP interface and the plethora of shit doesn’t have that.
What’s that?
Fast network
Is that different from SFP+? Cuz I don’t see that on this thing either. Matter of fact I don’t see any special ports at all.
Pretty sure he’s confusing it with either SFP+ or SFP28.
OSFP is the current bleeding edge with 400Gb/s of bandwidth. The current primary use case for that is ISP networks or running datacenter scale computing. The going prices for a PCIE card seems to be about 2k and around 600 for a DAC-Cable alone… compared to this 200$ mini PC, OSPF is in a completely different customer segment.
I’m confusing nothing. Osfp is my desire. I have a purpose in mind. How else do you load an OS onto hundreds of AI hosts?
Yes this is expensive, my company will be supplying it
But the ZimaBoard has OSFP?