The Chinese company Apples continues to churn out mini PC and at this time comes the announcement of Star Cloud PCG62 model. Just like t...
The Chinese company Apples continues to churn out mini PC and at this time comes the announcement of Star Cloud PCG62 model. Just like the previous model, although the latter is based on a cubic, metallic houses, rather compact, with two conspicuous antennas external Wi-Fi that recall both those in competitor devices - coff, coff, Minix.
Important, indeed crucial, considering that the system is completely fanless and therefore it is obvious a heat dissipation system that fruit fundamentally a passive air recirculation. From this point of view we must always consider that the Skylake processors, even more if under loads of important work, can develop a good amount of heat - you have to see if and how the company has succeeded in developing a passive system to keep the components internal under certain values of temperature to avoid throttling phenomena.
The rest of the data sheet with the presence of connectivity in the form of 100/1000 Mbps Ethernet, a module Wi-Fi 802.11 ac / b / g / n dual-band 2.4 and 5 GHz and Bluetooth 4.0. The interfaces are in the form of an HDMI 2.0 port, a DisplayPort 1.2 with native support to 4K at 60 FPS. Follow the traditional 3.5 mm audio jack, a micro SD port, two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports. We must consider that, to act as a chorus to the model Star Cloud PCG62, apples also having the model Star Cloud PCG62-U, which is the twin brother with the same hardware and design features but with Ubuntu Linux 4.16 operating system; the Star model Cloud PCG62 instead comes with Windows 10.
The two models are expected to arrive at the price of about $ 159 (converted price) with availability for the end of the year. Curious to find out what mini PCs are available in the market? Take a look at our guide on the best mini PC and best Android mini PC Windows.
