Looks good to me. I tend to use them as headless devices so I’m sitting on my debit card!
Father-in-laws old Core 2 Pentium finally started playing up, it’s done very well considering but time for a new one. All he does is office type tasks and printing some photos but it has to be W10 as he won’t cope with a big change, otherwise that Pi would have been ideal.
Looked about and saw a Gigabyte Brix Intel Celeron N4000 on E-Buyer for £110. Not going to pull the skin off a rice pudding but it won’t need to and the price is right. Looked a bit further and Gigabyte are bundling a USB Keyboard & Mouse Set and a 120GB 2.5″ SATA SSD! Thank you very much, bite hand off.
It has:
- 1 x SO-DIMM DDR4 slot.
- Intel IEEE 802.11ac, Dual Band Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 4.2 NGFF M.2 card.
- HDMI plus D-Sub Outputs (Supports dual displays).
- 4 x USB 3.0 (1* USB Type-C™).
- Gigabit LAN
- Headphone and mic jack.
With an 8GB sodimm, next day delivery and W10 / O2019 from E-Bay it’s cost £149.
Windows 10 installed a bit slower than normal thanks to the weedy Celeron and you couldn’t call it snappy but then I’ve been spoiled with quad+ AMDs and NVMe drives. You get used to Word loading as fast as you can take your finger off the mouse button, waiting a second or two, sheesh.
Can’t wait to see his reaction when I turn up with a 3″ x 4″ box to replace the old tower :wacko:
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