Somehow comes with a full install of Windows 10 Pro for that price. Atom processor 4GB of ram, 64GB of storage. Tiny little thing.
I was in the process of updating my HTPC, and saw this deal and decided to go for it. Arriving tomorrow. Excited to see how it does in the HTPC role, connected to my big external storage drive with all the family videos and photos.
We have a bunch of whatever the state-of-the-art Intel devices would’ve been about two years ago at my work that we were going to try to use to create some homebrew multimedia signage. Turned out to be severely underpowered unfortunately. We shelved the project and I haven’t really done anything else with them. They were so so so slow with Windows; I think we managed to get Linux to boot but it wasn’t a whole lot better.
I would SEVERELY check your expectations if you think you need to transcode your video.
Some of our Synology NAS devices have Atoms. They are sufficient for serving data and stream of pre-encoded video, but they can’t handle transcoding worth a damned.
You might want to search there based on what function you want from it. Some mentioned that they are low powered for anything transcoded but could handle other tasks okay. The one you linked appears to be a new model, but still based off an Atom chip.
Sounds like I might be fine for most/all of what I’m doing. Stuff is mostly bog standard iPhone recorded videos stored on an external drive connected via USB 3.1.
I’d like to stream Netflix/Amazon via the stick, but it’s not a big deal to switch over to my AppleTV.
I finally got around to setting this up. So far, I’m really pleased with it. Hooked up to my 4K TV, it’s worked great for playing all my home videos and the digital movies that you get when buying discs nowadays. It’s not the fastest to boot and can’t really multi-task well, but doing a great job of what I intended it for. Does well for youtube and netflix, too, though I primarily use my AppleTV for that.
Amazing that you can get something like this for $130.
The two USB ports are perfect: 1 for my wireless mini-keyboard trackpad thingy and 1 for my external hard drive with all the home videos.