I'm not sure the SFF is a good deal anymore. You often can get as good a hardware for the same price in a laptop. SFF might have more ports. But a laptop for the same money is usually about as good. Perfectly good in clamshell mode. They can be turned on end and take up less space than a microATX setup. Plus if you even once and a while want to you can unplugged it go somewhere with it. I think it is about market size. Desktops in general are out of favor so other than big gaming rigs they don't sell well at all. So the price to hardware ratio is not the best anymore. At least it is very close. Fewer and fewer laptops let you upgrade memory or even SDD. SFF machines usually do allow that. I also see lots of issues with SFF machines in terms of they stop working at higher rates.
Kind of reminds me of some things in the HiFi world.
I'm the same... My desktop can open 50+ Chrome tabs without fail and does pretty good at gaming too.Kind of reminds me of some things in the HiFi world.
Compromise on performance and configuration options to save a little room ?
As long as I have no need to carry it around, I'll keep building in extra-large desktop towers.
Tons of elbow room to work in, add drives, cooling options, whatever you need or want.
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Yes, that is what I used more or less until this year. The space to add drives or cards on the PCIe bus for new connections etc is very nice. I decided I wanted a smaller box however. And I had a 10 year old laptop that also was plenty serviceable. So it had me thinking things change slowly enough you can get away without the big box. I still understand if that is one's choice.Kind of reminds me of some things in the HiFi world.
Compromise on performance and configuration options to save a little room ?
As long as I have no need to carry it around, I'll keep building in extra-large desktop towers.
Tons of elbow room to work in, add drives, cooling options, whatever you need or want.
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I'll bite my tongue. LOL
Funny. I use a 14+ year old 11" Lenovo business laptop with an Intel ULV CPU (very slow) and Lubuntu to record live gigs in stereo 96/24 using Audacity and a very old USB 1 USB sound device (Editor UA 25ex). Works perfectly.
I haven't delved into it lately. In the past with Linux doing recordings with 2 microphones and a 2 channel interface was doable with some of them. I didn't have a simple way to do that with more than two channels. Maybe I just didn't go about it right or had the wrong interfaces to work with. I sometimes needed a few channels.
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Your machine is screaming for a lightweight Linux distro,This might take a while...
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Laptop purchased new in 2019 for £130 including the extra 240GB SSD...
Coda Spirit 13.3 32GB Laptop, Intel Celeron N3350 1.1GHz, 4GB LPDDR4, 32GB eMMC, 13.3" Full HD IPS, No-DVD, Intel HD, WIFI, Bluetooth, Windows 10 Home 64bit + WD Green M.2 SSD 240GB 7mm SATA Gen 3
CODA SPIRIT | 13.3 Inch Windows 10 Intel® Celeron® FHD Laptop, 4GB RAM
CODA SPIRIT is the ultraportable 13.3-inch laptop made for free spirits. The Windows 10 Laptop with 32GB of internal storage and a stylish, sleek design.
How Good (or Bad) is a $100 Laptop? The Coda Spirit Review
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This thing is very thin and light, the screen is also OK, performance was atrocious with Windows 10. Let's see how we get on with 11. I will debloat it as much as I dare with https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
Try PCLinuxOS. It should be able to work for you.
Yes you can i got Mathaudio running on Linux Unintu sort of emulating windows OS add on. Only issiue was how to run high resolution files lager than 48khz. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...q-users-tips-tricks.30525/page-7#post-1983449
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