Re:My Next Mac Mini
by arachnophobe on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:32AM
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I've used a gigabyte Brix n2807 - it's slightly larger than other Brix models as it takes a 2.5" drive (using an old laptop drive to save costs). It's not powerful, but it runs Kodi and Windows 10 okay. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth don't work (or didn't when I first tried) with Linux out of the box. Up to 8gb LPDDR. No power brick.
£80 on offer a couple of years ago.
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Re:My Next Mac Mini
by arachnophobe on Saturday January 28, 2017 @09:35AM
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Forgot to mention - fanless.
Well, I've checked the current offerings and I can't find any that doesn't have "19 V DC" as the power supply description. I guess I'm statistically irrelevant in their market.
Re:My Next Mac Mini
by arachnophobe on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:48AM
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Digging around behind the tv and it's a oversize plug and thin wire rather than a laptop style plug-cable-transformer-cable-computer set up. Not quite the mains-to-box set up you're after.
:)
Getting further off topic, the only other piece of hardware I know of where they bother is the Playstation. The XBoxes use ugly power bricks, just like the Wintel boxes.