ASUS VivoMini Revealed

ASUS did reveal the ASUS Chromebox officially earlier this year, where that particular model would definitely have kept the ChromeOS crowd happy with a relatively affordable portable computing device. However, perhaps it is time to move on to bigger and greater things, which is why ASUS intends to cater to the PC market with a comparable device that they have called the “VivoMini”.

The ASUS VivoMini happens to be a tiny and barebones PC which will run on the Windows platform, although it would be worth noting that running Linux on it is also very possible. Expect the ASUS VivoMini to come with a Haswell Celeron processor alongside its $149 price tag. If you are willing to invest more money, then you will be able to see some upgrades being made to the i-series CPUs not too long after launch.

Since this will be a barebones PC, it would mean you would have to shell out more dough for other components that you would like it to “dance” with. The VivoMini will feature a Gigabit Ethernet port (WiFi cards are supported as well, a quartet of USB 3.0 ports to keep up with the times, HDMI and DisplayPort out, 1/8″ audio out (headphones/PC speakers), an SD memory card slot, Intel HD graphics and a pair of PCIe slots – where one of them is one half length and the other is full length. Do be prepared to pony up for your own storage space and RAM though.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers
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