INTEL NUC BAREBONES THAT FITS IN YOUR HAND!!!!

Raikiri said:
No I'm not, actually.

However, once you add a 64Gb SSD, 4Gb ram and an OS these are about £430. Compared to £499 for an i5 Mac Mini (about 50% faster).
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Now is not the time for apple fans!

CraigN said:
Nath can you confirm about the power supply?

I want to know if the PSU brick is included or not? Some info i have found says nothing power related is included, some other says its just the country specific plug to brick cable that is not included.

If it comes with the brick i can use a power cable from an old dell laptop.
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PSU is the power brick type yes mate :)
 
I like it, but no usb 3 is a bit of a deal breaker to me. It will tell down the line (usage wise).
It wouldn't have cost that much more to have a usb 3 hub instead of usb2. For the sake of a few dollars they're allowed what would have been a great product to become something that's just 'decent'.
 
eddyr said:
I like it, but no usb 3 is a bit of a deal breaker to me. It will tell down the line (usage wise).
It wouldn't have cost that much more to have a usb 3 hub instead of usb2. For the sake of a few dollars they're allowed what would have been a great product to become something that's just 'decent'.
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I did some research to find out why there was not USB 3.0 Ports, it got to do with the power that is required, for ie : USB2.0 using 500mA and USB 3.0 uses 900mA to run the devices, so since the power of the device is very low, the best option would be USB 2.0 if not you would be increasing the power needed by 800mA given 2 ports.

if some can filling in anything that i have missed out, but regarding what i am sayin i am just a bit confused when i was looking at the thunderbolt i am sure that draws at lot more power that USB 3.0

That being the case, thunderbolt needs to supply even more current, so I dunno.
 
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I had no idea such things existed, that's awesome! Just had a look at the Apple mini mac too, very nice piece of kit. How loud are the CPU coolers in these things? Replaceable?
 
MoRT489 said:
I had no idea such things existed, that's awesome! Just had a look at the Apple mini mac too, very nice piece of kit. How loud are the CPU coolers in these things? Replaceable?
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I doubt they'll be very loud at all, the mac mini isn't. Can't really replace them though as they use coolers similar to laptops.
 
opstrat said:
i like,

is this intels "rasperry pi"
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No... This is magnitudes faster, it's a fully fledged platform. The R-Pi is a toy or for geeks who simply made the wrong purchase decision :D

I MUST RESIST, my htpc is more than perfect but we all like a bit of new bling.

The only thing that will swing it for me is the power consumption. My next upgrade must consume no more than 10W
 
I bought one.

put 8gb RAM in it, 128GB OCZ msata ssd and a intel wifi card i pulled from an old broken laptop.

Using it with my TV and windows 8. replaced my media center machine and streams anything i want using a logitech wireless kb and mouse and a WD 500 gb USB hard drive for a bit of storage.

left it on over XMAS while i was on holiday and used trminal services to jump onto it to kick off a few downloads.

Is practically silent and works perfectly. very impressed.
 
Raikiri said:
No I'm not, actually.

However, once you add a 64Gb SSD, 4Gb ram and an OS these are about £430. Compared to £499 for an i5 Mac Mini (about 50% faster).
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Its still £75 cheaper though and add to that the NUC built has an SSD compared to the mac's 5400RPM HDD I personally think that will give more real world performance benefit than the 3.1GHz CPU in the mac vs the 1.8GHz one in the NUC (although branded as i3/5 they are actually the same CPU family, dual cores with HT, its just the i5 has turbo and higher clock) unless your planning to use your micro PC for folding or something.
 
I was considering building a matx/itx box for my son's birthday next month so he can use switch based software on a large TV as it is easier for him to focus on. I wanted something small and quiet and this looks like a fantastic option. I wouldn't even notice it under the telly and it would be easy to pop next to portable with an external HDD with his DVDs ripped onto it.
 
I only just learnt about these this morning (Thanks to Custom PC mag!) and didn't even know they existed before!

Now that I have seen it of course I really, really want one, but just wish they were a bit cheaper.

Prices will drop I'm sure, but I want one NOW! :)
 
its a £250 barebones that fits in the palm of your hand and is very powerful for its size.

it is priced very very well actually.
 
Thinking of fitting out a classroom of 30 PCs with these, 4GB ram + 64gb SSD, should come in at less than £270 (ex vat yay) per unit + monitor, quite looking forward to trying one out :)

Should save what these are worth in electricity in no time considering the classroom being replaced is currently sucking down juice for Pentium 4 Ds and horrible foxconn motherboards :p
 
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