Excellent price for a Brix plus 1TB drive and 4GB ram, I saw this a few days ago when looking around for alternative to fire stick. Great price for a complete Brix. Would make great HTPC or possible nas soultion/both. I understand some find specs hard to understand. It is a fully functional computer just without an OS. This comes with a 1TB drive and 4GB ram as a kit, please don't link barebones units saying 'look its cheaper'.
I think some people are missing the point about hot deals, if you keep slagging people off about how good something is then we wont have any hot deals, this is for a guy that wants a brix, not some guy that wants an old laptop, or a lame android chromebook with a windup on the back.
Pardon me, I am curious why would you want your dad to go under the tv?
Great deal.
:-)
Gowlande to davening
19 Jul 171#3
As an alternative to fire stick, he doesnt have a home computer either, so this acts as great HTPC.
jisongkun
19 Jul 17#4
112 on eBuyer
Gowlande to jisongkun
19 Jul 173#7
Yes no drive or ram!
popoyaya
19 Jul 17#8
I'd have thought it's rather an important spec to mention.
davening
19 Jul 171#9
You fixed up your wording and the joke doesnt make sense now. ;-)
BTW might it do doubleduty as a nas server.
I better look at specs.
spannerzone
19 Jul 171#10
I think that because it's a low end CPU they don't want to make a big deal out of it... they don't even call it a Celeron N3150 on the Gigabyte's site as Celeron is usually assoicated as crap even though that's not always the case.
It's not terrible for what it's intended to do but it won't be any better than a 8 year old Core2duo CPU on many tasks... but probably fine for video playback and simple chores and it's very low power consumption,.
ukez
19 Jul 17#11
3150 is like 6w , AES NI too.. it's a shame it doesn't have dual LAN ports.
Gowlande to ukez
19 Jul 17#14
Could you not just buy a cheap gigabit switch or usb 3 ethernet adapter, a 5 port probaly stack nicely with this. You could make a minature server cabniet.
tek-monkey to ukez
20 Jul 17#33
Was thinking the same!
mikedigitales
19 Jul 17#12
Nice little PC to stick under a tv or something similar - heat!
Gowlande to mikedigitales
19 Jul 171#15
Is! Great value considering the cost of ram and drive.
45ure
19 Jul 17#13
ANy reason this wouldnt give me ATMOS sound over the HDMI in kodi ?
jaydeeuk1 to 45ure
19 Jul 171#16
It won't decode atmos.
Wont do HDR before anyone asks either.
captainbeaky to 45ure
20 Jul 17#35
You can bitstream HD audio over HDMI on the N3150 chipset including Atmos. These mini PCs make great little media players but if you're using Windows you'll need to turn off all the "enhancements" in the Intel Video driver for best picture quality.
zizzles
19 Jul 171#17
That money would buy a used laptop with those specs ( With an OS) . it will do everything that box can and also be immune from crashing in a power cut
If you ever wanted to use it as a laptop then , guess what?, it's a laptop too
spaghettihooha to zizzles
20 Jul 171#34
What a ridiculous comment. Did you use the above reasoning to vote cold?
CaptainSocks to zizzles
20 Jul 17#40
And used.
forcedv
19 Jul 17#18
Shame it's not the projector version
Gowlande to forcedv
19 Jul 17#20
Now that would be an awesome deal.
Gowlande
19 Jul 172#19
An OS is free, windows 10 works just the same without a license key or there is 101 different linux distros.Most uses for this would be HTPC or nas, where you might be using something like freenas any way.
Why a used laptop? This is fit for purpose, consume a lot less power, fits discreetly anywhere and is new not a cruddy old laptop so has warranty.
CampGareth
19 Jul 171#21
I think the point is it could be a gateway. AES-NI would be great for accelerating VPNs, dual NICs on PCI-E would make for a more reliable setup than USB 3.
There are similar boxes coming out of china that are geared for that, 4-port NICs attached to a J1900 with storage and RAM on board for ~£100. I am tempted but the Espressobin looks like a better deal on power consumption and price grounds.
Gowlande
19 Jul 17#22
Ah okay, I presume flash storge? I guess this is good if you were after the hdd and for just htpc purposes/home nas but not really home lab.
foes4you
19 Jul 178#23
I think some people are missing the point about hot deals, if you keep slagging people off about how good something is then we wont have any hot deals, this is for a guy that wants a brix, not some guy that wants an old laptop, or a lame android chromebook with a windup on the back.
reddit
19 Jul 17#24
I've been using a Beebox N3150 for a while, which is essentially the same as this.
Use it principally as a video box but quite capable as a basic Windows PC.
For video it is excellent but if you want smooth 4K then you have to use 2 sticks of RAM as dual channel is required.
Anything else it just eats for breakfast, within the limits of the SOC, so no 10 bit playback.
kyeung to reddit
19 Jul 17#26
Hi mate, so this can play/stream 4k media contents like Youtube at 4k 60fps?
neik
19 Jul 17#25
Links please!
ParsleyLion
19 Jul 171#27
Looking at the specs this box only has one SO-DIMM slot.
reddit
19 Jul 172#28
It has HDMI 1.4, which means 4K is limited to 30.
However it will still play 60fps content (at least from local files) at the maximum of 30.
chrisgw3
19 Jul 17#29
Hi, will this decode x265?
Cheers.
kyeung
20 Jul 17#30
Thanks for confirming.
Not bad deal but too under powered to meet my needs. Voted hot for deal as it comes with HDD and RAM which is around 50 quid already.
amour3k
20 Jul 171#31
It's cute. :-)
kxun
20 Jul 17#32
The older version 3000 costs £8 less, is there a noticeable improvement from Celeron 3000 to 3150?
cjed to kxun
20 Jul 171#37
Celeron N3000 passmark = 917, Celeron N3150 passmark = 1674, so it's nearly twice the CPU performance
paul_merton
20 Jul 17#36
If this had an SSD in it, would it be completely silent, or is there a fan somewhere?
robodan918
20 Jul 17#38
this is cheaper than the barebones version
good find
not useful to me but I can see how it could be a basic htpc
GwanGy
20 Jul 17#39
Now that ROKU/sky have invalidated PLEX on nowtv .. this looks like quite a compelling alternative.
having the ram and disk included for that price is great ....
Gowlande
20 Jul 17#41
I wish I had a use for it, as think it's cool and is a terrific price. But I'm always sat at my desktop or using my tablet. Nothing in between.
NostromoXP
20 Jul 17#42
I got a further £5 off by topping up £100 on Amazon and then using the credit to purchase this (with a £29.85 payment as the price has increased by 0.70p).
Cheers OP.
reddit
20 Jul 17#43
Yes but just 8 bit.
reddit
20 Jul 17#44
Don't take the Atmos etc passthrough as a given though.
The hardware itself is certainly capable but it will require the right Intel drivers, if they exist, which may well not be the case.
So check before you buy to make sure if this is a requirement.
Of course AC3/DTS will be standard.
captainbeaky
20 Jul 17#45
HD audio passthrough has been available for a while now on these Braswell machines. Whilst originally only enabled in Windows using a beta driver, Intel have now included in latest official release
reddit
20 Jul 17#46
For their NUC's though, which might not work on other boxes.
Wotan
21 Jul 17#47
Tempted tp get this as a plex server, since i managed to drop the laptop I was using for it last night. CPU would just about transcode a 720p stream. Hmmm
GNKelly07
23 Jul 17#48
Has now been reduced further to £112.32 for those with it as a pre-order
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Would make great HTPC or possible nas soultion/both. I understand some find specs hard to understand. It is a fully functional computer just without an OS. This comes with a 1TB drive and 4GB ram as a kit, please don't link barebones units saying 'look its cheaper'.
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Great deal.
:-)
BTW might it do doubleduty as a nas server.
I better look at specs.
It's not terrible for what it's intended to do but it won't be any better than a 8 year old Core2duo CPU on many tasks... but probably fine for video playback and simple chores and it's very low power consumption,.
Wont do HDR before anyone asks either.
If you ever wanted to use it as a laptop then , guess what?, it's a laptop too
Why a used laptop? This is fit for purpose, consume a lot less power, fits discreetly anywhere and is new not a cruddy old laptop so has warranty.
There are similar boxes coming out of china that are geared for that, 4-port NICs attached to a J1900 with storage and RAM on board for ~£100. I am tempted but the Espressobin looks like a better deal on power consumption and price grounds.
Use it principally as a video box but quite capable as a basic Windows PC.
For video it is excellent but if you want smooth 4K then you have to use 2 sticks of RAM as dual channel is required.
Anything else it just eats for breakfast, within the limits of the SOC, so no 10 bit playback.
However it will still play 60fps content (at least from local files) at the maximum of 30.
Cheers.
Not bad deal but too under powered to meet my needs. Voted hot for deal as it comes with HDD and RAM which is around 50 quid already.
good find
not useful to me but I can see how it could be a basic htpc
having the ram and disk included for that price is great ....
Cheers OP.
The hardware itself is certainly capable but it will require the right Intel drivers, if they exist, which may well not be the case.
So check before you buy to make sure if this is a requirement.
Of course AC3/DTS will be standard.