Nice find

Decent spec for the cash. Heat

Great little machine. Could be overkill for a KODI machine but for anyone wanting a cheap OC especially if they have memory and SSD laying around it would be brilliant. Tempted myself but I really don't need any other computers

Blimey that's amazing price for an i3 NUC style PC.... hot hot hot

For the versatility that this offers, it's an amazing price.

More info here about the dual bay drive arrangement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uesKTOuytXo
General review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptao_MROXC4

'71 people are about to buy this!' - haha the power of hukd lol :smile:

I was annoyed at missing out on the recent Dell PowerEdge T20 £70 deal, so this might do instead. Shame it doesn't have PS/2 ports so I can use it with my KVM.

Cor, only 38 in stock. I guess people will have to move fast...

There's a comment on Youtube review saying a max of 1TB 3.5" hard drive limitation so check for yourself. The dualbay allows 2 x 2.5" drives or 1 x 3.5" drive

Wow, great price

Can't see how that could possibly be the case. They're not like Flash drives where the file system changes as you go up sizes. It's always NTFS. :neutral_face:

It measures 190 x 190 x 56.2 mm (a NUC or Brix, at just about half that size, is a so-called palm top rather than a small desktop, so to speak). I suppose technically you could build your own using a 170mm x 170mm M-ITX motherboard, a smallish case, a more powerful desktop CPU and a larger power brick, or else larger case/internal PSU. Not criticising the product, though, it sips little energy, great that you can just slot in a full size desktop 3.5" hard drive if you have one you're not using, and great discounted price compared to a similar 4th gen NUC or Brix!

​yeah hopefully just an error .... I find it very hard to believe it won't support over 1b drives.

No they sold out last night.

Have tried USB-PS/2 adapters before (5+ years ago!) without much success.
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OC?

thanks. thought they had lots in stock :disappointed:

Is the processor good enough to use as a normal desktop for browsing, movies, word processing etc?

Me too - they had >20 left when I checked last night, thought I'd have no trouble ordering this morning...

PC probably

Brilliant for the price. Just can't think of a reason to get one.

OOS :disappointed:

pretty good CPU, especially at this price
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-4030U+%40+1.90GHz

Well that saves me making a decision :smirk:

ah, of course. My guess was 'other computer' but your suggestion makes much more sense.

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Easily. Pretty much any Intel processor these days would handle tasks like that just fine

balls, missed it

from what I can see it doesn't appear to have native h265 decoding, it must do this in software; it will handle up to 1080p apparently at roughly 60% CPU utilisation (not sure of the benchmarking for this). For KODI I think it's more forward looking to find one that has hardware support for this; beware though, I've found recently that there are 10-bit h265 files which aren't handled by the hardware of some chipsets (e.g. Cherry Trail doesn't do it in hardware, it does 8-bit h265 though). General x264, AVI, etc. should be quite ok though.

Purchased, hopefully will go under tv to play MS Flight sim, assuming the graphics card is up to the task

Anyone received their box yet and have any feedback?

No. Nor will I any time soon. It's with Yodel :disappointed:

And mine, not good news, do they deliver saturdays if at all?

Have you checked your roof?

Mine arrived this morning via Yodel, surprised but happy. Will give it a try later

Received mine as well this morning - the network card is a Realtek 8821AE Wireless AC for those wondering... it also seems to be a low-end card as maximum AC speed is 433Mbps.

Installed some memory in mine and it keeps bleeping, I guess it does not like it, have ordered a 4 gig piece from amazon. Delivery tonight. Looks a nice bit of kit though

You need DDR3L 1.35V memory - it won't work with standard DDR3 1.5V memory.

Thns, thats what I have ordered. Shame as I had couple of sticks of the other type lying around

Hmm. Have a weird problem. Set it all up fine, installed windows 7 & latest drivers. However, as I went to plug in my Logitech K400 it will only work when the keyboard is behind the PC (which is where all the ports are on this). I put this down to network interference but took it into another room with only the monitor - it did the same there

Does the same with a K400r - with or without Setpoint drivers installed.

Edit - used a non powered USB hub so that the dongle was at least facing the front and it works, but pretty laggy. This is with ethernet (wireless disabled)

I don't have any problems with my K360 keyboard and Anywhere mouse - all connected to a single dongle on the rear.

Mine now up and running. Nice, only gripe is button on back, is there a way to turn this on without having to use the rear switch?. will it wake on lan

By the way it's possible to use a 2.5" SSD with a 3.5" hard drive for storage if you use a USB/SATA adapter for the SSD - you can boot Windows 10 from it if you install "Windows 10 To Go" (a regular Win 10 install won't boot) - instructions here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/196817/how-to-create-a-windows-to-go-usb-drive-without-the-enterprise-edition/

For best performance use a USB3/SATA3 adapter with UASP. You then have fast booting from the SSD and a large hard drive for storage.

You can also copy an existing Windows installation to a USB drive so it runs as a Windows To Go installation using this tool here:

http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/index.html

does it come with keyboard and mouse?

That looks interesting, thanks for sharing 8-)

No.

Best to use an SSD with a USB3 adapter that supports UASP. This is the one that I am using:

StarTech.com USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable w/ UASP - SATA to USB 3.0 Converter for SSD/HDD - Hard Drive Adapter Cable

Thanks, have ordered one