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  • Gigabyte Brix / Zotac ZBox good enough as note book alternatives ?
11/23/2013
tomixornot
Good for simple site recording with Sonar ?
Or for small gig setup, running soft synt / drums.
 
You have to add your own memory, hdd and display. Only USB 3 ports.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=brix&N=-1&isNodeId=1
11/28/2013
tomixornot
Just an update, from tomshardware.
 
Zotac updated the ZBox with Haswell
 
http://www.zotac.com/products/mini-pcs/zbox/intel/product/intel/detail/zbox-iq01-1/sort/product_name/order/DESC/amount/10.html
 
If I have some free time, I'll probably compare notebooks with similar processor and see how the Brix/ZBox stack up in pricing.
11/28/2013
Cactus Music
Interesting, Is there a processor in there? Seems it doesn't include much. I see the words i3 in the title but they don't say much about the CPU. 
I guess it's size is it's best attribute. 
Would make an interesting replacement for a laptop for giging. I was looking into using a tablet with a touch screen. This would have a lot more horsepower for sure and all you need is to add a touch screen monitor. Looks like half rack size too, would go beside my little reverb box. 
11/29/2013
tomixornot
Processor is included. Memory and storage is not.
 
Currently, Zoltac's top of line ZBox has an Intel Core i7-4770T (quad-core, 2.5 GHz) (Up to 3.7 GHz, Turbo), according to the spec, with Intel HD Graphics 4600.
 
Gigabyte Brix.. (i7-4770 "R" ? up to 3.9 GHz.. )
 
http://youtu.be/oR-BLMSYMJU
 
 
4/15/2014
tomixornot
Just an update : Brix Pro
 
http://techreport.com/review/26166/gigabyte-brix-pro-reviewed
 
Downside : loud fan and only USB 3 ports.
4/16/2014
Mesh
Other than the actual small size of this unit (portability/space saver), I don't see the advantage of using this. For just $200 - $600, you can easily get a desktop (or laptop) with monitor and everything else included in it.  
4/16/2014
Old55
They're probably pretty quiet without too much tweeking. 
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