Sapphire Announces the EDGE HD4 Mini PC

[Cristian_25H]

Building on the success of its EDGE HD series, hailed as the smallest fully featured PC in the world, SAPPHIRE Technology, a world leading manufacturer and supplier of PC graphics cards, mainboards and professional graphics solutions has just introduced a new model, the SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 mini-PC, based on the latest mobile processor technology from Intel.

The SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 shares the same slim, stylish outline as the earlier models but delivers increased performance as a result of incorporating the latest Celeron 847 processor from Intel. Like the earlier models, it is slimmer and smaller than most wireless access points, in fact around the size of a paperback book! Its stylish design and simple pedestal mount make it equally at home next to a TV or a business monitor whilst occupying the minimum of desk or shelf space.





Despite its small size, the SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 is a fully featured PC for home, education or business use. In the home, its compact size is a welcome replacement for a bulky traditional PC whether for browsing the internet, children's homework or home office tasks, with many applications accelerated by state-of-the-art technology. Built in HD video capability enables the smooth streaming of video content over HDMI to a TV or monitor and the stylish design is just as at home in the living room as in the study.

For business, the industry standard Intel processor in the SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 accelerates Office tasks and many business applications, whilst occupying a fraction of the desk space of a regular PC and consuming many times less power. In education, it is more than capable of running the multiple applications required, and its small size allows easy transfer to different locations as needed. In both cases the built in networking by cable or wireless is easily configured, and inclusion of the socket for a Kensington lock ensures security against unauthorized removal.

In addition to the Intel Celeron 847 processor, specifications of the SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 include 4 GB of DDR3 memory, a 320 GB hard drive and built in wireless connectivity as well as high speed LAN port, one USB 3.0 and three USB 2.0 ports. It provides high resolution graphics output with a full HD (1920 x 1080) HDMI interface (with an HDMI cable and HDMI-DVI adapter also supplied) as well as a VGA monitor output and it has built-in audio with mic-in and line-out sockets.

The SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 Mini PC is ideal for integration into an office or education environment. The end user or system integrator has a free choice of keyboard or mouse, which can be either wireless or USB connected. The new SAPPHIRE EDGE HD4 is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 or 8, Vista or Windows XP. All appropriate drivers are supplied on CD.

The SAPPHIRE Mini PC family now offers a choice of Intel CPU or AMD APU based solutions and is a top scorer in power efficiency. Consuming less than 30W even under load, the members of the SAPPHIRE Mini PC family use around 10 times less power than a typical desktop PC, and less than most notebooks, making them amongst the Greenest PC solutions available. Power and space savings alone can justify switching to the SAPPHIRE Mini PC series for many businesses.

[hellrazor]

Why does it look like it's sitting in a pile of shit?

[tacosRcool]

Originally Posted by hellrazor

Why does it look like it's sitting in a pile of shit?

interestingly enough if you quickly looked at it, it would seem so

[lemonadesoda]

Why do they make cases like that? Small and thin, yet unstable, pointed up-end like that. And with thick heavy cable connectors (VGA) at the top! etc. etc. It is impractical nonsense. And the "foot" takes up all the deskspace "gained" by being so small/thin. Build a small cube with grippy rubber feet.

[3870x2]

Why do they insist on making these look like a wireless router?

[Frick]

Originally Posted by lemonadesoda

Why do they make cases like that? Small and thin, yet unstable, pointed up-end like that. And with thick heavy cable connectors (VGA) at the top! etc. etc. It is impractical nonsense. And the "foot" takes up all the deskspace "gained" by being so small/thin. Build a small cube with grippy rubber feet.

Originally Posted by 3870x2

Why do they insist on making these look like a wireless router?

I think they look quite nice, BUT when you start to connect things it gets ugly. All systems that has this form factor should come with VESA mounts as standard.