Bay Trail
This week Colorful has introduced a uniquely designed motherboard, created specifically for the professional miner. One of the first things most will notice is this doesn’t look like most motherboards we see on the market. Instead of conforming to any particular form factor, the C.J1900A-BTC Plus V20 breaks that mold and gives us a markedly rectangular shaped board with a total of nine full-length PCIe slots. Eight of the slots can be used for installing mining graphics card of choice while the blue slot in the middle is where the Celeron J1900 SoC resides on its own PCIe card. The SoC itself has a DDR3 SO-DIMM slot, a mSATA slot, and regular SATA for storage; it also contains the board’s connectivity like networking, USB...
QNAP TS-451+ SOHO NAS Review
QNAP is one of the leading vendors in the COTS NAS (commercial off-the-shelf network attached storage) space. They have a wide variety of hardware platforms to choose from, ranging...
34 by Ganesh T S on 10/29/2015
Intel PPSTCK1A32WFC Bay Trail-T Compute Stick Review
The success of UCFF PCs have made vendors realize that small and power-efficient computing platforms are here to stay. ARM SoC manufacturers, finding that the tablet market had reached...
103 by Ganesh T S on 4/22/2015
Intel at MWC 2015: SoFIA, Rockchip, Low Cost Integrated LTE, Atom Renaming and 14nm Cherry Trail
After day zero at Mobile World Congress already boasting some impressive releases, Intel tackles their platform on day one on several different fronts. As part of a pre-briefing, we...
37 by Ian Cutress on 3/2/2015_carousel.jpg)
Dell Updates Education Solutions with New Chromebook 11, Latitude 11, and Venue 10/10 Pro Offerings
Today Dell announced a collection of product updates with a focus on education, with the announcement of a new Chromebook 11, Dell Latitude 11 Education Series, and Venue 10...
25 by Jarred Walton on 2/12/2015
Toshiba Chromebook 2: A Feast for the Eyes
Chromebooks are often viewed as a low cost alternative to Windows laptops, and as such they are frequently a victim of the race to the bottom, where the manufacturers...
66 by Jarred Walton on 2/11/2015
ECS LIVA X Review: A Fanless Bay Trail-M mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. ECS first took...
35 by Ganesh T S on 1/16/2015
Zotac ZBOX CI320 nano Review: A Fanless Bay Trail-M mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
44 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2015
QNAP TS-853 Pro 8-bay Intel Bay Trail SMB NAS Review
QNAP has focused on Intel's Bay Trail platform for this generation of NAS units (compared to Synology's efforts with Intel Rangeley). While the choice made sense for the prosumer-targeted...
58 by Ganesh T S on 12/29/2014
GIGABYTE GA-J1800N-D2H Review: Dual Core Bay Trail-D at $69
Our recent review of the HP Stream 11 by Brett Howse, featuring a dual core Bay Trail-M, made me wonder about the utility of such a desktop system based...
39 by Ian Cutress on 12/26/2014
HP Stream 7 Review: A $119 Windows Tablet
Late last month, we published our yearly holiday guide for people interested in buying tablets. We took a look at what we considered to be the best tablets running...
157 by Brandon Chester on 12/19/2014
GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXBT-1900 Review: A Bay Trail UCFF PC
Over the last couple of years, the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) has emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Intel kickstarted the category with...
35 by Ganesh T S on 10/24/2014
The Battle of Bay Trail-D: GIGABYTE J1900N-D3V and ASUS J1900I-C Reviewed
All the recent talk of Haswell-E and high-end refreshes has obscured the more casual computing market. The Bay Trail platform uses Intel’s Atom based Silvermont cores and competes directly...
60 by Ian Cutress on 10/17/2014
ECS Reveals LIVA Product Roadmap
The PC market is warming up to the ECS LIVA 'nettop' that we reviewed back in July. The fanless nature and low cost, as well as 'good-enough' performance serve...
3 by Ganesh T S on 9/4/2014
ASUS EeeBook X205: The $199 Windows Alternative to Chromebooks
When ASUS introduced the first EeePC back in 2007, it became a huge hit and essentially ushered in the era of the netbook. Using Linux as the core OS...
35 by Jarred Walton on 9/3/2014
Habey Releases MITX-6771, J1900 Thin Mini-ITX with Long Life Cycle Support
Habey’s main focus in the PC market is towards industrial computers, with Ganesh having reviewed the BIS-6590 and BIS-6922 fanless systems last year. Industrial oriented components by their nature...
7 by Ian Cutress on 8/23/2014
QNAP Launches x53 Pro Bay Trail NAS for SMBs
The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in great detail. QNAP took the lead over other NAS manufacturers in opting for the 22 nm Atom SoCs. While...
18 by Ganesh T S on 8/10/2014
More Fanless Bay-Trail: ASRock Releases Two Pentium J2900 Motherboards
When we looked at AMD’s Kabini platform, AMD in its press materials pitted their high end APU against the Pentium J2900 in terms of price and performance. The only...
24 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2014
QNAP TS-451 Bay Trail NAS Performance Review
The launch of the QNAP TS-x51 series was covered in detail last month. Its introduction has revitalized the premium NAS market for SOHO and power users by providing a...
57 by Ganesh T S on 7/28/2014
ECS LIVA Review: The Nettop Rises Again
Nettops and netbooks, as a class of products, have been on the decline over the last few years. However, the introduction of SoCs based on the new Silvermont Atom...
55 by Ganesh T S on 7/18/2014
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