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Just as a PSA, there are zillions of _very_ nice $300-$350 15w TDP Broadwell x86 boxes, with 4-8GB RAM, 64/128GB SSD, bundled WiFi, and dual gigabit ethernet po

Just as a PSA, there are zillions of _very_ nice $300-$350 15w TDP Broadwell x86 boxes, with 4-8GB RAM, 64/128GB SSD, bundled WiFi, and dual gigabit ethernet ports on aliexpress. I don't know why there are so many broadwell boxes on offer, but these are a stellar deal for the price, and are fully solid state, super flexible, extremely fast anything x86 boxes. For example: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Fanless-i5-Mini-PC-Windows-Barebone-PC-Broadwell-Intell-Core-i5-5200U-2-7GHz-4K-HTPC/32366202925.html http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Fanless-i5-Mini-PC-Windows-Ba... I initally looked on Amazon and found the fitlet-i, which is nice for a 4.5w TDP AMD box.. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/specifications/fitlet-models-specifications/ http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/specifications/fitlet-mod... .. but these aliexpress deals are far better, and easily 3x faster if you can afford the 15w TDP budget.

maaarghk 11y ago
Oh wow, nice. I've been buying quite a lot of stuff from AliExpress recently, it's great. But for some reason I've never noticed these. I imagine they would make pretty great media servers/homebrew set-top boxes. Does anyone have any idea what those connectors hanging about on the inside (last image) might be?
- codinghorror 11y ago
  for a traditional SATA drive. It has two M.2 ports for internal SSDs.
  - maaarghk 11y ago
    Great, so could fire a (multi-)terabyte drive in there and use it as a set-top box. Thanks for posting, yet another project to go on the unending list.. :)