Are the power cord and adapter included?
It better be in order to work!
With that said and IMHO, the CPU on this will be a test of patience for anything beyond basic office tasks. The Passmark is:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N3000+%40+1.04GHz&id=2583
– which is lower than a Raspberry pi 4.
It is not Windows 11 compatible.
(Note that I am not staff. I just volunteer to help out on the forums.)
Yes, they’re included.
Since this is for my 88 yo father, he won’t need that kind of power. As well, just the thought of getting him a Win 11 device sent him into a tailspin. He finally learned Win 10 (sorta). This will replace the 2010 Win 7 desktop thats seen much better days. Thank you for the review. I definitely won’t buy this for my personal use.
– which is lower than a Raspberry pi 4.
Not to mention, the RPi 4 has DDR4 RAM! In fairness, the N3000 isn’t terrible when used in its intended place (11 inch netbooks with good battery life), but it has no business in a desktop computer of any sort. They could have subbed in a i3 chip from the same era for the same cost and quintupled the performance. This device makes no sense as anything other than a thin client.
My guess is that these were intended as such when they were originally released.
As for a low powered i3 of the era – a bit over quadruple the performance, albeit at 15w TDP, not 4w.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-N3000-vs-Intel-i3-6100U/2583vs2623
Well I was comparing the i3-6100H in my head when I said “quintupled”…and at 35W it’s still within the thermal envelope of a UCFF PC like this. But yes, even the slowest, most efficient i3 makes this thing look like a Speak-N-Spell.