MintBox 4 (regular and pro)?

[Omnimaxus]

Hope this is the right subforum to ask this in.

Is there any word on when MintBox 4 will come out?

This is for the regular and pro editions of MintBox.

It's been a long while since this hardware line was updated.

[deepakdeshp]

The website talks about mintbox 3 only. So I feel that's what we have to depend on for Mintbox 4 announcement.

[Omnimaxus]

The website talks about mintbox 3 only. So I feel that's what we have to depend on for Mintbox 4 announcement.

Thanks for replying, but I was hoping for a little more of a concrete reply here.

Perhaps someone from the Linux Mint team will respond, and offer some insight.

[SMG]

Is there any word on when MintBox 4 will come out?

There are no plans of which I am aware.

If you are not already doing so, I recommend following the Linux Mint Blog to keep up-to-date with the plans of the Linux Mint team. Any kind of announcement would be made there.

[Pierre]

in the meantime - just make your own using these:
- an Lenovo ThinkCentre M720Q / M70Q // M700 / M900 series of mini PCs.

[Omnimaxus]

Is there any word on when MintBox 4 will come out?

There are no plans of which I am aware.

If you are not already doing so, I recommend following the Linux Mint Blog to keep up-to-date with the plans of the Linux Mint team. Any kind of announcement would be made there.

Thank you.

[Omnimaxus]

in the meantime - just make your own using these:
- an Lenovo ThinkCentre M720Q / M70Q // M700 / M900 series of mini PCs.

The M900 does look nice ...

[scjet45]

Mintbox 4 is a hardware pipedream, Linux Mint needs decent (x86_64) hardware-building backers for this, (maybe Odroid/Hardkernel, LattePanda, ..., ?).
But yes, the Lenovo mini's are nice, but for several $hundred less, grab a (DIY):
https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/ , with a mini-Cube case.
It'll run Linux anything, and/or *BSD/Unix anything, OOTB.

[MurphCID]

I am leery of those "fanless" systems since I worry that they will overheat if you do any sort of gaming on them.

[scjet45]

I am leery of those "fanless" systems since I worry that they will overheat if you do any sort of gaming on them.

Well, if you're going to AAA+ "game", then you're gonna need more than any SBC can provide anyway, (unless you don't care about quality), -and that will mean fans. or liquid-cooling, ..., even for a big Desktop.
That said, and even for any multi-core heavy rendering/encoding cpu tasks, other than Gaming, SBC's can easily do that too, (without any fans), albeit, will take longer.

But for any and ALL avg. desktop/laptop use, SBC's, these days, are more than up to the task.

[MurphCID]

I am leery of those "fanless" systems since I worry that they will overheat if you do any sort of gaming on them.

Well, if you're going to AAA+ "game", then you're gonna need more than any SBC can provide anyway, (unless you don't care about quality), -and that will mean fans. or liquid-cooling, ..., even for a big Desktop.
That said, and even for any multi-core heavy rendering/encoding cpu tasks, other than Gaming, SBC's can easily do that too, (without any fans), albeit, will take longer.

But for any and ALL avg. desktop/laptop use, SBC's, these days, are more than up to the task.

That is good to know, my gaming is limited to Civilization type games, and such like. I know my windows desktop pumps out a LOT of heat when I am gaming.