welcome to my unboxing of the sapphire Edge HD3 or cubed however you want to
interpret that Mini PC so Sapphire is no
stranger to computer Technologies especially ones built by AMD they've
been doing graphics cards for AMD going back as far as like dinosaurs and uh
they've also got some AMD motherboards but as as far as all-in-one PCS go this
is by far the most impressive product
that I think they have yet released although I haven't seen one in person
yet I have seen the marketing materials this is why I'm like skipping right to
the like the part where the Box opens and I take the thing out because I want
to check this thing out in person before
I say almost anything about it so inside we find some packing materials look at
that foam they're all they're pretty like serious business about foaming it
up in here making sure that your uh your PC arrives in one piece because and this
is this is good foresight on their part because this is one of Sapphire's first
things that they're shipping with a hard drive inside right so they're all like
yeah normally video cards no big deal it gets shaken around a little bit what's
going to get damaged well a hard drive can so they've got a nice foam layer
going on on all sides of this thing it feels very adequately protected in my
personal opinion okay there's your driver disc don't bother with that
download the latest off the Sapphire website quick installation guide so this
covers quickly installing things to other things user manual so it's only
six pages it's got to be pretty straightforward here got some specs got
some FCC things going on okay cool got
like a sapphire product registration form got a power cord hey look at this
we've got a an HDMI cable it looks like
it's even goldplated that's handy because I needed an HDMI
cable obviously the HDMI cable is not
the point of the product but you know it's in here I might as well use it
right there you go goldplated HDMI
action going on in there cool looks like
it's about a meter all right we got a stand with a
little screw on the bottom it's rubberized on the bottom so
it's not going to go anywhere cool cool oh check this out we also have an HDMI
to DVI adapter that is single link DVI guys because uh HDMI is Pinto pin
compatible with single link DVI so you're not going to be going above 1920
by 1200 at 60 htz just remember that I
mean there's probably not many scenarios where you would be doing that with this
anyhow but there you are okay so you got your power cord you got more different
power cord and finally let's get to it here it is ooh
I'm very excited about this don't laugh at me I'm talking to Slick not the
audience so there it is this is The Edge
HD3 here's our power button here's our
hard drive activity LED here on the
front we have two USB 3.0 ports there
you go cover that up got like a soft touch finish I I realize like looking at
it that it probably looks kind of just like dusty but when I go like this you
can see it comes very very clean so it has it has a good way of like masking
that so once you once you wipe it down once then it should be pretty much good
to go so that's kind of nice I I I I personally love these like rubberized
grippy grippy feels on the bottom here
we can see that looks like your hard drive right there next to the ventilation holes there's the screw on
the bottom for attaching it to the stand if you should see fit and on the back we
find our IO so we have VGA just in case you still need it HDMI two USB 2.0 ports
gigabit Ethernet power as well as
headphones and microphone ports
so what makes this guy special is the
real question here I'm just going to go ahead and attach it to a little stand a
few things would be the answer here and number one is the fact that it uses
AMD's E450 Apu so a Apu if you guys do
or don't recall I'm going to say it anyway an APU is a combination CPU and
Graphics Processing Unit so what it means is you have direct X11 Graphics
power in this unit it is capable of running direct X11 titles I wouldn't
expect to be running them on the highest details or the most demanding direct X11
titles but it can run direct X11 feature
so there you go so stuff like Dirt 3 yes it will run off of this Slimline PC
which is very very cool it's got 4 gigs of memory the graphics card is
equivalent to what would be called a radon 6320
yes just double check sorry I have a hard time remembering which HD graphics
core goes with which apus sometimes so inside here also for the CPU component
of the Apu is a 1.6 GHz dual core I mean
look at this form factor it's ridiculous yeah I'm going to do it I'm going to do it I'm going to do the iPhone size
comparison for those of you who think that I'm showing off that I have an
iPhone I mean come on get real it's an iPhone for that's not the point the
point is everyone knows how big an iPhone is so if I hold something up to
an iPhone every one knows how big it is so there you go that's the thickness
comparison against the iPhone and here is the size comparison against the
iPhone so this thing is just tiny considering the fact that it contains a
full PC inside so it's got oh you know
what I missed something I missed it because I didn't actually see it hold on
a second guys we found it cleverly disguised is the Kensington compatible
locking slot you see it looks just like a ventilation hole except slightly Lar
larger very convenient because if you're looking for a place whether you know
airport or a coffee shop you need like a checkout terminal PC whatever else if
you're looking for a low power PC but you don't want someone to run off with
it because it doesn't weigh much and it you know is very very small you could
easily like you know I'm assuming I had a pocket here you know hide it in a coat
pocket or something like that you could easily run off with it if it isn't
locked down speaking of low power Sapphire claims less than 30 Watts
underload for the whole PC
holy crap so stay tuned on my ncixcom
channel where we're actually going to put all of their claims to the test but
that sounds very impressive especially because under a typical usage scenario
you wouldn't come even close to that load power consumption because you're not even going to be loading the
graphics core that's built into the Apu one other thing about this particular
unit is that it does not come with an operating system or rather I should say
it doesn't come with a Windows operating system it comes with freed dos or something like that so you're going to
have to Source your own Windows operating system you know you can buy OEM copies online you don't have to buy
the retail copies which are more expensive in like a big box store but
just grab an oem copy for around 100 bucks and you should be good to go or if
you already have a retail Windows uh license then you can go ahead and reuse
it on this machine as long as you're not still using it on the machine that you
already have so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the edge HD3 or CED
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