Anyone know anything much about mini pc's?

pondering on getting one to use as a media center and come across the likes of this,

 

Why not DIY with a raspberry pi?

 

not really looked into them tbh, also prob loose patience hahaha

 

Looked into it, its a PITA from what i can tell. Micro pc's using windows are easy to use, setup etc because they are based on windows. RPI needs to be setup then expanded etc

 

Minix are ok, so long as small disk and 4GB RAM are enough for the intended use.

 

Had quite a few Gigabyte Brix over the years - they tend to be full on i5 / i7 pc's though so might be out of your budget.

They are very good - although a bit noisy when on 100% CPU

 

seem to be about £200 without operating system, i can get windows for not huge amounts so might be viable

 

If you just want it for a media centre buy an Android box say an Octacore one with about 4gig ram?

 

Have you seen this at eBuyer for less than a ton?

Not a lot of memory (or internal disk), but it did tempt me!

mb

 

was exactly that that started me looking (you get the ebuyer offers email as well then haha)

from speaking to folks the spec is a bit weak

 

I bought a NUC from quiet pc . It has I5 intel processor twin hard drives Bluetooth, HDMI and 4 usb sockets. It's very fast quiet. I had problems with stability at first, this was down to poor design bios which intel released an updated version. Since then it's been perfect. I use it for my online cycle training, Zwift, Trainer Road, Bkool, BigRingVR etc. All these simulators work fine. Dimensions 100*100*50mm

 

thast the kinda thing im after