News - Intel launches Bay-Trail NUC computer starting at US$140

[HEXUS]

There's no memory, storage or OS included in that base price.

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[sykobee]

The story fails to clarify that Bay Trail means Atom. Don't expect anything special out of this - it might make a useful PC for the guest room.

[abychristy]

Things like these are best given to a library or kids.

[kajjot]

I think this is great for running netflix on your TV.
Could also set up xmbc player and other steaming services.
Although it should be cheaper to have any appeal for users as at that price+ram+hdd it will cost same as a prebuilt PC with higher specs.

[iamlorro]

The story fails to clarify that Bay Trail means Atom. Don't expect anything special out of this - it might make a useful PC for the guest room.

Thanks for clarifying - the price is another give away.

Hopefully the trend of "atoms" powerful enough to actually do something continues- remember the old Celerons?

[3s-gtech]

Confusing that this Bay Trail platform 'Celeron' has the designation *2*** where the Atoms on Bay Trail platform are *3***. It's like it's a Clover Trail part.

Having seen the reviews, this should be more than up to most media centre duties. Very appealling as a digital signage platform - doesn't need mega power for Xibo.

[aceuk]

this should be more than up to most media centre duties.

It's a shame it has Intel HD graphics since this means it has the 24 fps bug.

[mtyson]

Its £110 delivered in the UK at the moment: http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/new-...ivered-1804983

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Last month you could an ENTIRE Acer Revo RL80 based system for £120:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer...ebuyer-1744785

Acer Revo RL80 Nettop PC
- Intel Celeron 1007 1.5GHz
- 2GB RAM + 500GB HDD
- Intel HD
- Wifi
- Free DOS

The Celeron 1007u is IB based:

http://ark.intel.com/products/72061/

It means it is much faster than the Celeron N2820 which is Bay Trail based:

http://ark.intel.com/products/79052/...up-to-2_39-GHz


The Bay Trail CPU used here is the dual core version - Bay Trail is a quad core.

The IGP in the Celeron 1007u has 6 EUs and the Celeron N2820 has 4 EUs which means the latter is slower(both use IB HD graphics and not the later generations EUs found in Haswell).

Also,the Celeron 1007u has a 1600MHZ dual channel DDR3 controller and the Celeron N2820 has a 1066MHZ dual channel DDR3 controller,meaning the IGP in the former has more bandwidth too.

Edit!!

It seems there is only one RAM slot meaning,the IGP performance is even worse now:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/systems/6...tarting-us140/

[Denis_iii]

Will it outperform Intel P4 3Ghz?

Why can't I logon to hexus using email address!!! :-)

[bennyo]

Last month you could an ENTIRE Acer Revo RL80 based system for £120:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/acer...ebuyer-1744785

Acer Revo RL80 Nettop PC
- Intel Celeron 1007 1.5GHz
- 2GB RAM + 500GB HDD
- Intel HD
- Wifi
- Free DOS

The Celeron 1007u is IB based:

http://ark.intel.com/products/72061/

It means it is much faster than the Celeron N2820 which is Bay Trail based:

http://ark.intel.com/products/79052/...up-to-2_39-GHz


The Bay Trail CPU used here is the dual core version - Bay Trail is a quad core.

The IGP in the Celeron 1007u has 6 EUs and the Celeron N2820 has 4 EUs which means the latter is slower(both use IB HD graphics and not the later generations EUs found in Haswell).

Also,the Celeron 1007u has a 1600MHZ dual channel DDR3 controller and the Celeron N2820 has a 1066MHZ dual channel DDR3 controller,meaning the IGP in the former has more bandwidth too.

Edit!!

It seems there is only one RAM slot meaning,the IGP performance is even worse now:

http://hexus.net/tech/news/systems/6...tarting-us140/

That was a great deal, I'm tempted by the NUCs but these celeron based systems seem better value as they include hard drive and ram. I've noticed the sandy bridge i3 versions of the rl80 are dropping slightly, now down to £229 on ebuyer. I will keep an eye on them to see if they drop more.