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more welcome to a video about one of the most bizarre products that I've
encountered in quite some time the Gigabyte brick Series in General Uses
the low power consumption and heat output of fourth generation Intel Core
Series processors to achieve a stunningly tiny form factor without
compromising performance to nearly the extent we would have seen in the past
they've got everything from extremely slim bricks to the big fat bricks Max
that could accept four 2 and 1 half inch hard drives to Bricks Pro which can be
outfitted with Intel Iris Pro Graphics to deliver a pretty darn satisfying
gameplay experience at 720p in modern games making it kind of perfect as a
home theater PC that can handle some light gaming or as a steam machine but
today we don't have any of those bricks we have the bricks projector which uses
a similar size chassis to the bricks Pro but instead of using that extra space
for powerful hardware and a beefy heat sink it actually crams a 90 Len LED
backlit wvga that's 854x480 projector with 1.4 WT stereo speakers
inside the casing so let's take a quick tour of the device on the front we've
got two USB 3 ports and a headphone or or optical audio outjack as well as the
lens for the projector on the sides not a whole lot other than the speaker
grills and an intake ventilation hole for the projector component that lives
inside the top of the unit then at the back we find the main Affair in terms of
I/O with HDMI out mini DisplayPort out
gigabit Ethernet two more usb3 ports power in a Kensington lock and finally a
discrete input for the projector itself that's mini HDMI giving it the
flexibility to allow it to be used with any other device that supports HDMI such
as a a notebook or like a a PC within a
boardroom or something like that Gigabyte conveniently includes an HDMI
to Mini HDMI cable since most people won't have one of those lying around
which I think is a nice little inclusion all right thanks for watching guys I
think ah gotcha now we're not done yet let's
crack this baby open removing the four screws from the bottom and using the
little handle we can pull off the bottom then remove one more screw to completely
open up the bricks projector the 1.7 GHz
dual core core I3 4010u processor with
its hd4400 Graphics is soldered so we
won't be changing that but once we're inside we can upgrade the included n
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 mini PCIe module and we can add up to 16 gigs of ddr3l s
in memory and an MSA SSD it should be noted that this is a barebones unit so
RAM and storage are not included by default the internal guts also give us a
look at how this bad boy is being cooled the projector lamp is cooled by that
fresh air intake that I showed you guys on the side with a copper heat sink
attached by thermal pads then the air exhausted from that heat sink goes
directly into the intake for the CPU Cooler which has a larger fan on it that
uses a blower design to pump the air through a shrouded aluminum heat sink
then right out of the chassis everything else inside is is passively cooled all
right so back to the outside the integrated projector it's really nothing
special it's got no Keystone adjustments or other projector like settings so you
just have to fuss with it to get the image right and without a very dark room
you aren't going to be getting a usable image much bigger than 35 to the low 40s
in terms of diagonal inch sizes but it
should be noted that Acer's entry-level Pico projector the c120 is 200 bucks and
that gets you 10 extra lumens but is otherwise pretty much the same in terms
of raw spec if you really want to get something better in a compact projector
you're probably looking at something more like a GP series from Ben Q those
perform much better but they're around $500 so while the brick series is
supposed to sell based on compactness in general Gigabyte has a model that is
available for $250 less than this one with exactly the same specs as this one
that's half the size of this one but does not include the projector so the
big selling point for this particular bricks is obviously the versatility of
it it could live in an office boardroom and save the hassle of having a separate
projector or operate as a PC in a dorm
with a normal monitor hooked up most of the time via those normal outputs but
with the ability to Chuck it on the included little bendy tripod which is a
$5 value you can get them for five bucks and then point it at the wall with the
lights off when you want to watch a movie or something like that so
with that in mind I would love to see you guys comment on this video and let
me know what you would use a Mini PC with a built-in projector for or tell me
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