Spoken English and Mini PCs

Spoken English and Mini PCs

I have been watching and listening to YouTube guys presenting various small form factor Mini PCs. 

They are flooding the market and this glut provides an opportunity for YouTube advertisers to go into frenzy mode.

Their naming architecture is bizarre.

Mixture of N and S series and Venus and Magic and Magician instead of Vanilla or Testing editions(Linux terminology).

No imagination at all.

Products are so diverse and Apple is getting a very bad economic hit.

One can get 10 of these mini PCs and make FreeNAS Server at the cost of an Apple Mac. 

Microsoft has infiltrated this scenario surreptitiously and advertising the phrase  "it come with an operating system".

Bare bone system which costs less is my wish and I have two NUCs with me and being a Linux guy I won't buy one until Linux kernel 13 is out which would be end of 2025 and more likely mid July 2026. 

By that time sales for left over systems would be the reality.

There would be enough specimens to pick.

My picks are Minisforum and Geekom.

Acemagic has a place.

Another company that would be hit as badly as Apple is FrameWork computers, simply because Laptops would become thing of the past due to bulk, battery problems and high price.

This eGPU or external GPU to prevent heat throttling is also a bad advertisement for laptops. My old laptop is already in the attic and I take it out to recharge the battery. Unlike modern batteries the battery discharges even without booting.

The market is volatile and certainly the advertising campaign would become ineffective.

They are running short of buss words like generation I, 2 and 3.

Space saving, budgeting and futuristic won't work.

My amusement is that these guys are killing the Queen's or King's English.

S is pronounced as C.

G is pronounced as J.

N and M are not nasal but guttural.

It is all French to me.

My problem is when I want to write down the Model Number I have to listen to the presentation several times and I still get it wrong.

I advice these guys to display the name tag of these gadgets unobtrusively, while talking, so that the sales depend on whether the buyer gets the model number correct to his or her hea

It will be helpful when ordering through eBay or Amazon.

Less and less people would pop into a high market store to buy a mini PC.

What a turn around.

I used to walk length and breath of Tottenham Court Road to buy a Sony Portable cassette player. 

I could buy three mini PCs today for one Sony Portable.