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Tronsmart BJ19 Mini PC (NUC Equivalent, Celeron J1900) - $89.99 USD (~$121.58 AUD) Delivered (Courier) @ GeekBuying

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Was looking around for an upgradable and cheap NUC like box. The ones on the ebay specials with Futu and PC-Byte are the latest NUC's that have the Celery Dual Core N3050 - performance is pretty sub par with it being as good as a low end Atom. Found this from Geekbuying using the previous gen Quad Core Celeron J1900 with much higher performance for much less.

like the NUC, you have to BYO RAM/Disk/OS (which I have some around at home from other upgrades). It takes a 2.5" SATA drive (hdd or SSD) and uses laptop DDR-3L's for up to 8GB of RAM. edit - can confirm it also has an extra mSATA interface of supposedly "up to 128GB" on top of the WLAN card. Can use this as the boot drive and stick all the movies on a 2TB 2.5" drive if that is the preference.

Specs:
Intel Celeron Quad Core J1900 Processor
Intergrated GPU
Built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Gigabit LAN
Bluetooth 4.0
Stylish design,upgradable storage
Multi-language supported for multiple regions and dialects around the world
USB 3.0 Interface

Comparing the N3050 in the latest NUCs vs the J1900:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Celeron-N3050-vs-…

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  • +17

    Celery Dual Core

    can i get this for my new diet?

    • +2

      New type of Organic processor.

      • +2

        So crunchy you can carve it

    • +1

      soon will be on Boost juice menu nationwide!

  • out of curiosity do any of these nuc type devices come with duel gig ethernet?

    • +10

      Some do, but not at this price point.. it's quite… challenging.

      • +1

        i see what you did there…

      • +1

        Touché

    • En garde!

    • I was looking for similar and the closest I could find was something like this:
      https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AJEJG1A

      But they seem to be relatively expensive compared to other NUCs and it doesn't look like they ship here.

    • They do, but range is limited to twenty paces.

      Would gigabit for LAN, plus USB 100Mb for WAN do the job?

    • I'm a big fan of the fanless yumcha MiniPC's, dual HDMI & 10/1000, I have a few with the i5-5200u, the i5-4258u is faster (and cheaper) but a gen behind.

      There's also a J1900 based model with dual 10/1000.

  • cheap hackintosh

    • can't be done, cpu not supported for a start.

  • Does this have integrated infra-red for media remote controls?

    I bought a new Intel NUC for $180 recently that does, works well as a KODI media player. This would be even better.

    • Yes it does, in the interfaces list it states IRx1

  • +2

    Great device and price if it suits your needs.
    As a media player though, the n3050 or n3700 do hevc hardware decoding and have built in infra red receivers.
    If you don't need them then this is a good buy, comparable to the $250 NUC5JPPYH.

    • +1

      The NUC5CPYH N3050 costs $179 on Mwave website.

      • CHOICE20 will also get it for you from PC Byte on eBay for $180 delivered.

      • Correct, but the tron mentioned in this deal compares almost perfectly with the N3700 based NUC5PPYH which is $249 from CPL. NUC5CPYH gets trounced performance wise but has other benefits as a media player.

      • Oh with $40 amex credit thats brings it down to $139 nice spotting!

    • so you think this cheapo tronsmart cant play hevc x265?

      • Probably only in Software for x265. Hardware support for HEVC comes in on the newer Braswell processors.

      • +1

        I have a Gigabyte Brix j1900, same CPU. It will play 1080p 10bit hevc at high bitrate under Linux fine as long as it isn't doing too much else at the same time. It does do it all under cpu.

  • From the reviews it seems that WOL doesn't work. Might have been nice for a wake as needed server.

    • Whats the idle power consumption?

      • Dunno, comes with a 19V 2A PSU I think but that's worst case. I'm more concerned about HDD wear.

        • That should be easily be fixed in software settings.
          My media external drives spin down when idle long enough. Maybe not possible with some usb drives?

  • +2

    check out the Vorke V1

    I picked it up for 160 USD

    in comes fully packaged with Win 10
    Celeron J3160
    DDR3 4GB RAM,
    64GB SSD, Both Extendable
    RAM can be extended to 8GB, and a 2.5" drive can be added as storage within it
    Gigabit LAN
    USB2.0 x 2
    USB3.0 x 2
    Headphone out&Mic-in x 1
    VGA x 1
    TYPEA HDMI x 1

    • Sounds like good value with the faster CPU + ram + ssd.
      Geekbuying + coupon code "VORKEV1"?
      Is Win10 genuine or supplied by a KMS hack?

      • how legit the Win 10 is I'm not 100% sure

        So far no alerts to say it isn't. Updates occurring as expected.

        Works quite nice as a HTPC

        • If you perform a full system scan with Windows Defender and it complains about Service_KMS.exe or HackTool:Win32/AutoKMS that would suggest its not legit.

        • @nige0090: there is always vl or msdn key

    • I looked at that but I had spare 4gb, 128Gb msata and spare Windows 8.1 licence from a couple of previous upgrades to laptops so thought this was a good deal. The other is good value of you don't have the spare parts around.

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