<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Kirk Bocek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t004@kbocek.com" target="_blank">t004@kbocek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><br>
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On 11/15/2016 9:11 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:<br>
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"the compact PC starts at $699". Ouch! But also way overkill.<br>
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With the right content[1] and the right GPU, an Atom does just fine.<br>
Bought my last two IONs for about $100-120 IIRC.<br>
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I agree. As I said, lots of other smaller, cheaper options. But the Nvidia thing made me post this.<div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Looks like the 'base model' doesn't even include Xeon/NVidia:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(43,45,50);font-family:"guardian textegyp",serif;font-size:18px">"As for the price, the compact PC starts at $699, which probably gets you an Intel Core i3 configuration without discrete graphics. HP didn't say how much a Xeon/NVIDIA setup will be, but it's likely well over double that."</span> </div><div><br></div><div>That along with the lack of HDMI makes this pretty much a non-starter for media playback, which, to be fair, isn't the target market.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div></div></div>