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No experience with egu on them. But they are phenomenal linux boxes. Ive got 5 running my homelab with those exact specs. Stick an ssd in there and golden. Its a bot of a pita but not hard.
Otherwise (i do this on one of them) boot off an external thunderbolt ssd
Nice, I’ve also thought of installing PFsense on it and using it as my home router. But that seems like kind of waste of its potential. It’s perfectly sized for that purpose though.
I’ve got one running in a Proxmox cluster. Getting it setup was a bit particular (due to the T2 chip if I remember correctly), but it’s be working flawlessly. I use the quick sync feature of the iGPU for my jellyfin container.
If you were going to buy something new, I think there are more cost effective boxes of about the same size and spec, but if you’ve got it already, you should definitely start playing with it.