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A mini PC (or miniature PC, nettop, or Smart Micro PC) is a small-sized, inexpensive, low-power, [citation needed] legacy-free desktop computer designed for basic tasks such as web browsing, accessing web-based applications, document processing, and audio/video playback. [1] [2] [3] The word nettop is a portmanteau of network and desktop.
A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s [1] [2] and sold at a much lower price than mainframe [3] and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.
Several notable technical, economic, and political attributes characterize minisupercomputers. First, they were architecturally more diverse than prior mainframes and minicomputers in hardware and less diverse in software. Second, advances in VLSI made them less expensive (mini-price). These machines were market targeted to be cost-effective ...
The Mini IT8 has been praised as an "affordable and compact" alternative to NUCs, a similar line of barebone computers produced by Intel. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of August 2022 [update] , GEEKOM has released the following three mini PCs in addition to the Mini IT8: the Mini IT8 SE, [ 2 ] MiniAir 11, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and Mini IT11.
A stick PC is a device which has independent CPUs or processing chips and which does not rely on another computer. It should not be confused with passive storage devices such as thumb drives. A stick PC can be connected to a peripheral device such as a monitor, TV, or kiosk display to produce visual or audio output. Stick PCs generally have ...
The MK802 is a PC-on-a-stick produced by Rikomagic, a Chinese company using mostly two series of systems on a chip architectures: . AllWinner A1X SoC, based on an ARM architecture, composed of an ARMv7-based Cortex-A8 1 GHz processor, a Mali-400 MP GPU, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and a VPU CedarX capable of displaying up to 1080p video.
eMachines M5405 laptop. eMachines was founded in September 1998 by Lap Shun Hui as a joint venture of South Korean companies Korea Data Systems and TriGem. [1] The company sold PCs at prices ranging at $399 or $499, not including a monitor.
PC Today (Later Cyber Trend) was a monthly mobile computing and technology computer magazine published by Sandhills Publishing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, US. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] History and profile