<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi, fellow Deniers of the Death of Desktops,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">For those looking at the Acer modular PC and groaning "Awwww" because it's not available yet, you might want to consider the <a href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/desktop-computer-reviews/intel-nuc-core-i5-nuc5i5ryk-review/">Intel NUC</a>. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">It's a tiny box with big grown-up PC power. And it's quiet. Actually it's effectively silent. Mine is an arm's breadth away and I can't hear it at all. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">And it's cool - thermally and socially. Hipsters pass by, stroke their mini-beards and say "Wow".*</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I have one running 24x7 as a downloading machine, FTP server, media server, and it's the perfect box to use for operations (like massive file copies or media encoding) that will take hours. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I use VNC to monitor and control it from my desktop, laptop, tablet and phone so no intrusive monitor/keyboard/mouse have to be plugged into it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">My NUCKY (named after my favourite gangster in 'Boardwalk Empire') has an i5 CPU. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">I stuck in 16GB of RAM and a 1TB hybrid SSD/HDD. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">It has the same specs as my laptop, but for some odd reason it often outperforms my i7 (3.9GHz) 32GB RAM desktop for media editing/encoding.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Mark</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">* This is a lie. I wouldn't let hipsters near my computers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 September 2015 at 11:29, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">What a jolly neat idea.</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"</font>BUILDING YOUR OWN PC rig used to involve a lot of rigamarole... Now, it’s as easy as stacking a bunch of coasters on top of one another. </div><div><br></div><div>Acer just announced a little modular desktop computer, the Revo Build Mini PC, that starts out as a little 5x5x2-inch box running on a lower-end Intel Celeron or Pentium processor with integrated graphics. </div><div><br></div><div>Also in the base brick are 8GB RAM, 32 gigs of solid-state storage, and plenty of I/O on the back and around the side of the unit: 3 USB ports, HDMI-out, DisplayPort, Ethernet, and an SD card slot. </div><div><br>"But that’s literally just square one. From there, you stack pre-made blocks to cover your extra storage, power, graphics, and A/V needs"</div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Read more</div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/09/acers-little-modular-pc-snaps-together-like-legos/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2015/09/acers-little-modular-pc-snaps-together-like-legos/</a></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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