Well they’re all done now and the Asus is a lot less fuss but just as many unknown devices in DM. One foible is Asus turn off the TPM chip by default, which they do with their motherboards, and I can’t understand the reason why. Neither of them respond to wake-on-lan even though the settings seems to be correct, one for another day when they’re on the production network.
Performance wise, yes it’s nippier than the i3 but they both boot in a few seconds so it’s not really worth considering. Is it worth the extra £40? I’d say so but not worth the extra £240 (8%) it would add to the whole project. That’s been spent on uplifting the monitor, keyboard and mouse sets where it really will be noticeable.
More funds being released soon so the next job is getting the network hardware ready, that needs to be in for the integrated security systems to function. Hopefully Openreach will be in soon too to get the new fibre line installed. It’s all going to be VOIP and the main phone number is working already.
