OnLogic Karbon 700: Passively-Cooled, Up To 8 Core / 16 Thread Industrial & Rugged PC

The performance potential of the Karbon 700 with a Coffee Lake Xeon opens it up to a lot of different possible workloads / applications.

Throughout all of these different workloads tested, the Karbon 700 was doing an excellent job at keeping the processor and other components operating efficiently to the extent that any thermal throttling was at a minimum while operating at normal room temperatures.

Those interested can find more Karbon 700 benchmarks via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.

In addition to having tested Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 19.10, a variety of other Linux distributions were also benchmarked on the OnLogic Karbon 700 without issue. Coming up in the next week or so will be those results of a multi-distribution comparison from the Karbon 700 for those curious. But long story short, with none of the modern Linux distributions tested were there any compatibility woes or problems.

Over the weeks of testing thus far and continuing to run the Karbon 700 in our labs, there haven't been any technical shortcomings encountered. As with industrial-grade PCs, the only downside to report with the Karbon 700 is the price. The Karbon 700 pricing starts out at $1301 USD for the Celeron Coffee Lake CPU and 4GB of RAM + 32GB NVMe SSD storage. If opting for a faster Xeon CPU, more RAM, and additional storage among other configuration options the price can quickly approach the $2,000 USD threshold. But that will get you a fan-less and incredibly rugged PC. More information on the Karbon 700 can be found via OnLogic.com.