For the price this little thing is pretty great. Printing sucks as driver support is horrible, but for browsing and playing HD video, it’s really not bad. Runs very cool with little power on hardware that is a glorified smart phone. Also VERY light weight. Not bad for a basic always-on machine. Can run most Windows for x86-64 apps with the FREE Windows 11 upgrade. For ~$75 including tax, you could do a lot worse.
Fixed, it has integrated graphics.
How were you able to fix all those machines so fast??
You think it would make a good Plex server or run Old Windows Media Center downgraded to win 7?
I run my old tower on 7 with media center to run my HD HomeRun prime cable card tuner and it’d be nice to have something that could run it without much power draw though that box sleeps when it’s not busy.
No Windows Media Center - ARM chip, and 7/Vista had no solid release for this platform
For W7, 4th gen is the newest that offered native support. Official support was discontinued in 6th gen but can still be done.
For Plex, 7th gen and newer will offer better hardware decoders.
Maybe look at a mini PC from the likes of Dell, HP, or Lenovo? Of the three, I personally lean towards HP as they were all DDR4 in 6th gen (G2) and can even be BIOS modded to boot NVMe on the 4th gen (G1). Some 6th gen Dell models were still DDR3 and some Lenovo models only supported SATA on the M.2 slot.
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Integrated graphics is Qualcomm Adreno 618 GPU.
It is ARM based and CANNOT be downgraded to Windows 7. Minimum in Win 10 Home (installed) and can be upgraded FREE to Win 11. Windows 11 allows (most) x86/x86-64 apps to be run in emulated mode, albeit a bit slow. Many apps are available ARM64 native (Chrome, Firefox, VLC, Zoom, PuTTY, Notepad ++, and 7-zip just to name a few).
I’m tempted to pick this up, push it to Windows 11, install VLC (ARM64 version), shove in a terabyte microsd, and use it as the video player in our Sienna.
My only fear is forgetting to turn off the box before turning off the minivan- but at the same time it’s an ARM device, should I be less afraid of it being powered off unexpectedly?
You said things that I do nut understand.
tl;dr I’ll likely purchase this, put it in our minivan as a *not-so-*Home-Theater-PC to have a sizable video library for road trips.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh. Ooooooooooooooooh.
In case anyone comes along later, researching if it works- YES! And you can put pixelated indie games on it. It took a few attempts to get the QC710 running windows 11, but for the past two winters & summer road trips, it’s been more used than the Switch while we’re away from home.
Sorry for the massive necro.