The GMK NucBox2 mini Computer system has experienced a substantial characteristic up grade from the NucBox I looked at previously this month.
At a hundred twenty five x a hundred and ten x 50mm (4.nine x 4.three x 1.nine inches), the Nucbox2 is at least two times the dimensions of its predecessor and heavier at 426g (.94 lbs .). Nonetheless, there appears to be a heck of a ton more squeezed into its little form element.
The initially matter I found is that the NucBox2 has ports on both of those the front and rear of the mini Computer system. At the rear, there is a power jack, two HDMI ports, two USB ports, and an Ethernet port.
On the front, in addition to the power swap, there are two USB Sort-A ports, a USB Sort-C, and a three.5mm headphone jack. On its right-hand aspect, there is a TF card slot. Regrettably, there is no have circumstance provided in the box.
Inside, the NucBox2 there is an Intel Coffee Lake i5-8259U eighth era main i5 processor jogging at 2.3GHz up to three.8GHz frequency. Its graphics card is an Intel Iris Plus 655 with 6MB of cache.
There is a 256GB reliable-condition generate that allows enlargement up to 1TB, or if you use a SATA HDD, you can broaden up to 2TB
The NucBox has 8GB of DDR4 RAM, expandable up to 32GB. It is pre-set up with Windows 10 Residence construct 19041.804. But it also supports Linux and Ubuntu installs.
At 19dB the supporter is substantially quieter in use than the NucBox and does not often cause. I stood the NucBox 2 on its aspect to make sure it experienced sufficient ventilation as the supporter grille is underneath the NucBox.
The two HDMI ports will join to two screens at 4K resolution and the NucBox2 has the common Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stacks if you do not want to bodily join to your mouse or keyboard.
In use, general performance is good, quicker I feel than the NucBox. The NucBox2 is quieter too than the NucBox.
Even heavy load apps appear to be to perform jointly with no challenge. I configured a wi-fi keyboard, Bluetooth mouse, and touchscreen watch to minimize the cables tying me to the NucBox2, which was one more bugbear of mine with the past model.
Even however the NucBox2 is greater and heavier than the NucBox, I located it less cumbersome in use — likely owing to the port slots on the front of the device.
The GMK NucBox2 at this time has a $one hundred on-site price cut coupon on Amazon, reducing it to under $four hundred.
GMK advised me that all eligible purchases from GMK alone will be transported from its US warehouse. One more offer for ZDNet readers on the GMK web page, use the code: NHONZAPY to get $a hundred and forty off.
All in all, the GMK NucBox2 is a outstanding mini Computer system with a host of likely use cases at house or perform. Use it to obtain box sets to look at offline (it really is truly moveable), as an impression storage program, or to give additional oomph to your favorite online games.