Stealth Brings Out Silent Fanless Mini PC

[exfileme]

This fanless PC packs an Intel Core i7-3520M CPU.

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[memadmax]

At a 2 grand price point, I don't think so...

 

[PepitoTV]

I was actually pretty excited about this until the price...

 

[winggndm]

Reminds me of the DEX7150 from aopen, but I could be smoking.

 

[eodeo]

"I was actually pretty excited about this until the price" Exactly. For ~500$ its an excellent little machine. For 1k$ its only for those who really don't have space, for 2k$ its for the computer illiterate.

 

[Guest]

$2200 for a PC with mobile CPU, no discrete GPU, only 4 GB of RAM (in 2014!?) and only 128 GB of storage? Is this some kind of a joke?

 

[JackDiesel]

You can build your own fanless mini-itx PC for half that price.

 

[zipspyder]

Talk about markup price...yikes!

 

[detrohutt]

Must cost about $1000 to make it "rugged".

 

[K2N hater]

Though heatpipe cases are a bit hard to find I can see a desktop APU would smoke that mobile i7 for like... 1/3 of the cost.

 

[mortsmi7]

This was made for where you need a computer to work 24/7 365 and not have to worry about it. $2000 is a small price instead of having to buy a new computer every six months because your work environment killed it.

 

[arossetti]

Wow! A silent HTPC contender at 2 - 3x the price of what you could build a similar system for!

Thank you - no.

Epic Fail.

 

[egmccann]

While the cost is up there, I think the people complaining are looking at the "small" part versus the "rugged" part. Yeah, I'd love this - at a far lower price point, and without "ruggedizing" features - for home use, personally, but just like enterprise vs home drives/equipment/etc, I can see the reason for the pricing. It should be a set-and-forget somewhere for years. It's not meant to be a home PC.

 

[Montago]

'there's also less power consumption'...Less than what ?

 

[Paul Tarnowski]

Yeah, try to keep a normal desktop PC or laptop running the CNC in a carpentry shop and suddenly the price doesn't seem so high. I can guess it'll also be picked up by police, fire, and first responders that need the ruggedization out in the field. This is not a consumer toy.

 

[John Andrews]

I think the people complaining about the price are missing the point of this computer, it is not a home consumer type product but meant for certain industries where wear and tear on the computer will be significant and those applications would need a higher level of reliability. If you look at Stealth's website you'll see these types of computers are meant for military, oil/gas, manufacturing, etc. type of places.