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bigmik

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Posted: 11:53am 31 Mar 2014

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Gday Lads,

New INTEL i7 NUC PC

Palm sized and has 24 USB ports and slot load XLAD drive

Regards,

Mick

Edited by bigmik 2014-04-01

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hitsware
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Posted: 12:14pm 31 Mar 2014

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Neat but still somewhat pricy .......
For now I'll go with something like :

http://www.mitxpc.com/proddetail.asp?prod=JBC200C9K-2500-B

Reminds me of my imagined all USB system :)Edited by hitsware 2014-04-01

bigmik

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Posted: 08:59pm 01 Apr 2014

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Lads,

OK, I only had one byte (sorry HITSWARE)

It is of course an APRIL FOOLS joke.. I put a winking emoticon there as a hint.

An Intel NUC with 18 USB3 ports and 6 USB2 ports and a slot Bluray writer in a box about the size of a hard drive??? Yeah I would like to see that...

I am not sure if you have this in the USA but every April 1st we (In Aus at least) try to trick our friends and family (but it has to be done before noon)

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Posted: 09:29pm 01 Apr 2014

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I was beginning to wonder myself, on that thing.
Here in NZ, we have April Fools day, but honestly - I did not think of it as being an April Fools day joke!

EDIT: ...and my 1000th post!!!! Yay!Edited by Grogster 2014-04-03

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atmega8

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Posted: 10:02pm 01 Apr 2014

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Can' t see The joke here.

Ok, so you reach your 1000 th post.
Congretulation

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Posted: 10:17pm 01 Apr 2014

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Do they have April Fools day in Germany?
It quite possible makes no sense to you, if you don't observed that particular day, where we purposely try to trick each other over what is a true thing, or something totally made up.

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bigmik

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Posted: 11:07pm 01 Apr 2014

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Lads,

Salesmart, run by a friend of mine, has chaged the page now.. It showed a picture of an INTEL NUC similar to what is shown there now but had a dvd slot and 12 usb3 sockets...
with description saying another 12 usb on the back...

Not only impractible but would need a 500w supply to run them all.

Pretty Obvious it was a joke but if the original (April fools joke, obviously) page has now been pulled and replaced with his correct page, the joke would be lost to you, unless you saw the original one... I will try to get the original picture off him to repost it here..

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Mick

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JohnS
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Posted: 11:23pm 01 Apr 2014

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It looked a lot more interesting than the real item!

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Posted: 11:24pm 01 Apr 2014

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At least this one wan't an April Fools! . . . .

bigmik said Grog, Zonk, WW,

What are all you blokes going to do when Geoff decides that he wants to change all the PIN configurations around in the production release?

He might even swap GND and 3v3 around..

Mik

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James_From_Canb

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Posted: 11:39pm 01 Apr 2014

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Does anyone remember the April Fools day stories that This Day Tonight used to run? My favourite was the story about Telstra blowing dust out of the phone lines to improve the telephone sound quality. Straight faced and almost believable.

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bigmik

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Posted: 11:48pm 01 Apr 2014

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Lads,

OK, Here is the picture from the original page I posted... There was a bit of blurb too but this tells 1000 words

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Mick

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Posted: 12:40am 02 Apr 2014

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We invented the April Fools;-)

I stay at home on 1.April..

Grogster said Do they have April Fools day in Germany?
It quite possible makes no sense to you, if you don't observed that particular day, where we purposely try to trick each other over what is a true thing, or something totally made up.

hitsware
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Posted: 05:28am 02 Apr 2014

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Well I am the fool :)
I've thought alot about having a system
with nothing but flashdrives.
It looked like that one was made to order ...

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