mini PC
Mini PCs are miniature PCs and a powerful alternative to laptops, notebooks and desktop PCs because they can be equipped with larger screens and ergonomic keyboards. They are offered as compact, fully equipped personal computers, but can also be configured by the user on a barebone basis. The high compactness of Mini PCs is based on the ITX form factor for the motherboard, which is small as Mini-ITX at 17 cm x 17 cm, Nano-ITX at 12 cm x 12 cm and Pico-ITX at 10 cm x 7.2 cm, and on the volume, which is only 1.5 l for many Mini PCs.
Mini-PCs are as powerful as desktops or laptops; they are equipped with multi-core processors that handle multiple parallel threads, solid-state drives( SSD) that can have storage capacities of 1 terabyte( TB) and more, and memory of several gigabytes( GB).
Mini PCs use modern operating systems such as Android, Windows 7 or 8, or Linux. Since they use passive cooling, they are completely silent. Like other computers, mini PCs can be equipped with powerful graphics processors and graphics cards, as well as familiar interfaces such as Serial ATA( SATA), USB 2.0 and also USB 3.0, LAN ports for Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI interface for TVs and the COM port. In addition, can be equipped with DVD drives and with flash card readers.
Mini PCs support a wide variety of image, video and audio file formats and are often designed as home servers and run Windows Home Server. For home applications, they are equipped with Bluetooth and have jack pl ugs for headphones and microphone plugs.