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CHINESE DEV JUST STRAPPED A FULL GPU TO A $120 MINI-PC AND MADE $190K LAST YEAR WHILE HIS EX-COFOUNDERS BURNED SERIES A ON ANTHROPIC BILLS Silver mini-PC on a cardboard base. GPU strapped to the side. UPS on top. Floral tablecloth edge visible. Build cost $550. Power $12/mo. [Spoken audio]: Hey, do you remember when I put together this monstrosity? This whole thing was based on a Zima board 2 little computer here with a PCI Express slot extension and then I put a full-size GPU on it for funsies and this made a little AI workstation sort of deal. And while I totally embraced the jank on this build, there were all sorts of comments. Anything from is that an industrial computer to why aren't those side fans spinning? And I don't know how I feel about this. People both enjoying and disliking that they were now an accomplice in this, and they were a few saying, oh that's too overpriced, it's too expensive. So for those whiny little babies, I present this, a much cheaper version, not exactly the same but pretty close. This is the Zima Blade. And if we open it up, we can see it in all its beauty. The Zima Blade is something like 1 3rd to 1 5th the cost of the Zima Board 2 and it still has a lot of the really cool features like a PCI Express slot, dual SATA ports for some external hard drives. It does have storage space built in just like the Zima board does. And over here we have one ethernet port, we have our display output and we have two different USB ports. The type C is for how we power this up. And right in there, we can see that it actually has interchangeable RAM. So I also have this to put in it. This one came with a 60 watt USB-C adapter And you could also just use any other USB-C cables and adapters you have lying around as long as it has enough wattage. It even comes with this super nice USB-C cable. And this is for our SATA. So first things first, let's get this RAM in there. Open up the case like so, and click in the RAM like so. And now this is ready to boot up. Display port connected. Ethernet connected. USB power, connected. And with it booting up over on the monitor, I can see we have a login for KasaOS. It's based on Debian. And from another computer, I go to kasaos.local, and then I can finish the setup through the web UI. And this is what the web UI looks like, very much like on the Zima board 2. So for those who thought the Zima board 2 was a little too expensive, the Zima blade can be as inexpensive as $69, or it could bump up the processor a little bit for $119, Compared to the Zima board 2 that starts at 339, it can go up to 399. If there's interest, I could go over more of the differences between the Zima Blade and the Zima board 2 in another video, but just really quickly, this one comes in the thick, potentially fanless, I have a fan on here, but fanless aluminum case, it has dual 2.5 gigahertz ports. There's more power in here, but this is a cheaper way to get the same sort of functionality with being able to hook up a SATA drive, being able to have this be the start of your home lab run containers, and it even has that PCI Express slot. So that's it for this one, thanks for watching and have a good one!
