newpersn Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Anyone else got one? Did it come in a annoying box which you hear the Intel sound when you open it, Or turn the lights on in the office and it goes off again... We showed our year 7s who didn't believe that its a computer.
Dkeen94 Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Ive been looking to purchase 2 of these, what specs did you go for?
tmcd35 Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Open the box? Breathing in a 10 meter radius of the bloody thing would set it off! - Someone thought it was funny attaching it to the inside of a desk draw
newpersn Posted March 25, 2015 Author Posted March 25, 2015 Ive been looking to purchase 2 of these, what specs did you go for? We went for the i3 4GB ram and 120SSD These are to replace 2 classroom (teacher) Computers. Open the box? Breathing in a 10 meter radius of the bloody thing would set it off! - Someone thought it was funny attaching it to the inside of a desk draw Dont give me ideas
sted Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 ive got an i5 one with 16gb ram 180gb intel msata and a 2.5" 750gb drive at home (its the efs (extra fat size)version). Its more than fast enough for my needs (watching tv and hyperv)
gshaw Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Open the box? Breathing in a 10 meter radius of the bloody thing would set it off! - Someone thought it was funny attaching it to the inside of a desk draw I've got one in my drawer that does exactly that, drives everyone nuts Was also working on some the other day and left one of the boxes open, meaning the sound went off randomly throughout the day like we were haunted by an Intel-branded ghost
Sagima Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 You don't need to open the box - if the sun shines near the thing the noise goes off! The box was entertaining for about 10 minutes and now hearing the intel noise sends shivers down my spine. I'm still amazed that none of them have been nicked
newpersn Posted March 25, 2015 Author Posted March 25, 2015 You can pick a Barebone from ebuyer for 250. Add ram and hard drive and that's it. They also come with the vesa mount. We used our supplier (stone). Overall cost is less then the SFF desktop with the same spec.
jamesfed Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 Got 3 here now - mighty happy with them as well, a few of the light sensors have been put in 'strategic' locations around the school
Chris_ Posted March 25, 2015 Posted March 25, 2015 You can pick a Barebone from ebuyer for 250. Add ram and hard drive and that's it. They also come with the vesa mount. We used our supplier (stone). Overall cost is less then the SFF desktop with the same spec. Don't forget to add on the OS license (if using Windows)!
newpersn Posted March 26, 2015 Author Posted March 26, 2015 Don't forget to add on the OS license (if using Windows)! Thats why we get them from stone. All part of the deal.
Oddbod Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 Fantastic little boxes for network monitoring screens. The publishing firm I was contracted to bought 24 of them for the Samsung flat panel screens they had fitted to the ceiling columns…
Oddbod Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 The annoying boxes pcbs got scavenged for retrofitting to the wheely bins… (snigger)
Snuffkins Posted March 26, 2015 Posted March 26, 2015 We attached one to our office door. Admittedly that got pretty annoying, pretty quickly. Then it appeared in my drawer after a couple of days off...
googlemad Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 The only issue with them is if you mount them behind a monitor it becomes a bit of a spaghetti junction on the desk with all the cabling and then unfortunately there is a power brick too to hide!
NB9457 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I cable tied the PSUs to the desk legs, worked quite well surprisingly! And to occur the mass of wires, more cable ties and shorter cables
newpersn Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 I now got 1 in the classroom as the teachers computer and better. ( i got a happy member of staff) Few bugs: As above, Cables are messy behind the screen Display port didnt like the VGA Spilter - I brought a mini HDMI and using both DP and HDMI to output to screen and projector. Think thats it...
robjduk Posted May 15, 2015 Posted May 15, 2015 Computers are quite good and we put our box in the fridge.
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