![]() ![]() ![]() Also, Task Manager invariably shows 100% CPU usage - even when it doesn't seem troubled by it - so clearly it's working flat out. Though I don't own one of those to benchmark against it, using Windows 10 on this thing certainly feels very similar to my experience of recent £300-400 laptops.Įminently usable, in other words - lag here and there, takes noticeably longer to open applications than a mid-spec PC does, and once in a while it chokes for half a minute. Doing some research while waiting for the thing to arrive, I read some claims that the N4200 performs on a par with some of the Core i3 chips that we see in cheap laptops. Not big numbers, but not terrible numbers either - not for £188. (There's also space to fit an extra laptop-sided drive of your choosing inside). The numbers: quadcore, clockspeed that shifts between 1.1 and 2.4GHz depending on load, paired with 4GB of DDR3 and, on this model, a 128GB SSD plus bonus, confusing extra 32GB drive. ![]() Inside it contains an Intel Pentium N4200, aka an Apollo Lake - the latest iteration (and reportedly last gasp of) the Atom ultra-mobile, system-on-a-chip range that powered netbooks and, indeed, lesser versions of teeny-tiny PCs like this. Similar boxes from other firms are available, and I'm using this one as an example rather than the be-all and end-all of this sort of thing. The box in question is a VOYO V1 Mini PC. And, as I'm looking at today, teeny-tiny boxes that just about fit into the back pocket of your trousers or can slip behind your TV.Ĭan a $235/£188, 12x12x3cm box really work as a PC? And, more pertinently, can it possibly be any kind of games machine? The concept is heading off in all sorts of directions, from patently ridiculous laptops to transforming tablets to all-in-one giant touchscreens to surprisingly games-capable laptops to yes, big boxes under your desk but also small boxes on top of your desk. By which I mean 'a big box that sits underneath your desk' is an increasingly inaccurate definition of PC. ![]()
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