By Desire Athow
We’ve had our fair share of ultra-small personal computers, from very well-known ones (HP’s 260 G1 for example) to the downright anonymous (like the Pipo X7). These tiny machines have shrunk further, and have also come down in price significantly making them even more attractive to the dwindling number of customers still interested in so-called Wintel computers – devices powered by Intel processors and using Windows.
Intel saw that niche a few years ago and, just like it did for netbooks and Ultrabooks, decided that a framework was necessary in order to make it a success. This is how NUC (Next Unit of Computing) came to life but unfortunately its birth coincided with a platform shift that saw customers move to smartphones and tablets as their main devices.
The NUCBU01201 (also known as the XPC Nano Ultra Slim NC01U) shares a lot of features with its rivals but has a couple of interesting capabilities that set it apart.
This device is built by Shuttle, a Taiwanese manufacturer that was popular back in the late 90s and early 2000s thanks to a range of small form factor (or SFF) cube-shaped chassis designs and computers, and the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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