Small Form Factor and its multitude facets
The all humble Mini PC or Small Form Factor has skill-fully replaced the CPU tower of the yesteryear.
Versatile: These pyxie sized CPUs offer great portability and power while being not too heavy on your pocket. Perfect for home theater, offices, space saving workstations. The best part, they are customizable. Gaming and industrial PC to a small unit at the grocery store, the mini PC is reigning everywhere.
Mobile: And what’s even more interesting is that these are mobile! Yes, you could just carry the small palm sized Mini PC with you and use it with your favorite peripherals.
Customizable: These tiny PCs are usually come as small boxes with i3, i5 or i7 processors – Barebones- that’s what it called. Thereafter, you are the boss. Choose the processor, storage and peripherals the way you wish and depending on where you would use it.
Upgradable: They are perfect for upgrades at any stage – if you wish for a higher specification. Remember, they are Barebone Mini PCs so doesn’t take much effort to remove the lid and shove in additional storage or upgrade its memory.
Gaming: The high-end barebones offer great comfort to gamers. These support discrete graphic cards. So long as, the graphic card can physically go into these Mini PCs they can be installed for high-power gaming.
Optimization: Carry heavy storage units with all the movies, music or e-books, or carry around with the with more RAM and lesser storage. Rely on live streaming or cloud storage. All you need it the access to the peripherals. You are all set to flaunt your palm sized magic by converting it into a home theater. Once it the party is over, mount it on a monitor and its work time.
Intel rightly called their version of Mini PC – NUC – Next Unit of computing. With all these customizable features and versatility, the Mini PC has the prowess to move into the next generation computing machines. For further reading my earlier blog Mini-pc Small is beautiful provides the features in detail.
Heard of Heavy duty Mini PC?
Yes, the Mini PC as a design has not left any terrain unexplored.
The embedded systems like our MX1-10FEP has been specially designed for exposure to harsh environments. It is best suited where there is exposure to temperatures as low as-40 degree Celsius and equally as efficient in temperatures as high as 70 degree Celsius.
Its fan-less embedded box offers aims at factory automation and provides high performance and expandability. Connectivity is not an issue with comprehensive I/O and wire to wireless interfaces, examples being like the triple display support, dual Giga LANs, dual COM ports, dual SIM card slots, and also multiple PCIe expansion through PCIe x16 slot, PCIe Mini card slot and M.2 slots.
Wondering what about data security at such extreme conditions?
Not an issue with the Industrial Embedded systems MX1-10FEP which offers has an advanced power protection through its design. Its extensive power input supports 9V to 48V, and also benefits from reverse power protection, OCP, OVP, static charge protection up to 15KV air discharge and 8KV contact discharge, and 3KW surge protection under -40⁰C to +70⁰C (harsh environments).
Have you used a mini PC and feel it has revolutionized the way legacy CPUs and desktops felt? Tell us how you liked it?
