Treat Your TV to a Mini PC This Christmas

Wednesday, 01 December 2010 at 03:32

Choosing is a stressful job. You have your kids to which inevitably means fighting over the last (insert this years popular toy here) with a fellow shopper at the mall. You need to something for the wife, or feel the wrath and you need to give yourself a little gift-age. This could be the perfect all in one, please everyone gift!

Produced by SkyBow this 1600 Yuan ($240) ‘Net-top’ uses an Intel Atom N330 dual core 1.6 Ghz CPU , has 1Gb of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive. So more than enough power to stream music or video from your local collection or the web, and plenty of room to store movies and pictures of the festive season!
Video playback is pretty astonishing thanks to the Nvida ION GeForce 940 chipset, and is more than capable of 1080p HD video decoding.
If we just left it there the spec is fantastic value for money, but there’s more, a lot more.

There is a total of six, thats correct 6! USB 2.0 ports! 6! There is also a HDMI out for use with newer TV’s and a VGA for use on older models or computer monitors. There is also ann ethernet plug and a fiber optic connector for better sound transfer (I’ve not seen one of those since my Mini Disc!).

An SD card reader and micro phone and head phone jacks make up the rest of the connectivity. So you have everyone covered: The kids are happy they can watch movies, play flash games and listen to through the TV, your significant other is happy because the kids are happy and your happy as you have a new ‘toy’ to play with!