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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 1146339" data-attributes="member: 83973">In the UK, Ebuyer are selling the HP G260 mini PC for £99 currently - <a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/702840-hp-260-g1-desktop-mini-pc-k8l27ea-abu" target="_blank">http://www.ebuyer.com/702840-hp-260-g1-desktop-mini-pc-k8l27ea-abu</a>This uses an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#.22Haswell-ULT.22_.28SiP.2C_22_nm.29" target="_blank">Intel Celeron 2957U dual-core 1.4 GHz CPU with a 10 execution unit GPU</a> (15W TDP), so quite powerful for HTPC use. It comes with Win 8.1 Bing edition on a 32GB M2 SSD (8GB is a recovery partition, so C: drive is about 20GB), and the internal 2.5 drive bay is empty (but you need to buy a special SATA cable form HP to use it).It's fan cooled, but mine is very quiet. 4 x USB3, 2 x USB2, DisplayPort (so need cheap adaptor for HDMI e.g. <a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/227491-startech-com-displayport-to-hdmi-video-converter-dp2hdmi2" target="_blank">http://www.ebuyer.com/227491-startech-com-displayport-to-hdmi-video-converter-dp2hdmi2</a>), VGA and Gigabit Ethernet ports.Fitted with 2GB ram as a single SODIMM, so I've added another 2GB SODIMM to take it to 4GB and allow it to run in dual-channel memory mode which boosts the performance.Note: no built-in WiFi or Bluetooth.Installed MP 1.12 + TV server - quite impressed so far, especially for the money <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 1146339, member: 83973"] In the UK, Ebuyer are selling the HP G260 mini PC for £99 currently - [URL]http://www.ebuyer.com/702840-hp-260-g1-desktop-mini-pc-k8l27ea-abu[/URL] This uses an [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#.22Haswell-ULT.22_.28SiP.2C_22_nm.29']Intel Celeron 2957U dual-core 1.4 GHz CPU with a 10 execution unit GPU[/URL] (15W TDP), so quite powerful for HTPC use. It comes with Win 8.1 Bing edition on a 32GB M2 SSD (8GB is a recovery partition, so C: drive is about 20GB), and the internal 2.5 drive bay is empty (but you need to buy a special SATA cable form HP to use it). It's fan cooled, but mine is very quiet. 4 x USB3, 2 x USB2, DisplayPort (so need cheap adaptor for HDMI e.g. [URL]http://www.ebuyer.com/227491-startech-com-displayport-to-hdmi-video-converter-dp2hdmi2[/URL]), VGA and Gigabit Ethernet ports.Fitted with 2GB ram as a single SODIMM, so I've added another 2GB SODIMM to take it to 4GB and allow it to run in dual-channel memory mode which boosts the performance. Note: no built-in WiFi or Bluetooth. Installed MP 1.12 + TV server - quite impressed so far, especially for the money :) [/QUOTE]

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