So i'm a massive fan of small pcs or small tower pcs just for example like this
mac mini that we have right here this is the m1 mac mini and it's quite small for what it is
however could you get a pc what is smaller and it still do your everyday needs well pantera think
they've got the solution with this pico pc that we have right here it's absolutely tiny compared to
this mac mini but how good really is it and what can you actually use it for well let's explore.
So the guys at pantera have sent me one of their prototype pico pc their new model this dinky
little thing that we have right here i'm gonna be leaving a link below what you can see right
now i'm gonna be leaving some more links to their campaign also in my description of this video so
do check that out after watching this video of course but let's have a look at what this pc is
all about so it is really really tiny you can see it here in my hand it's dead small and i can just
flip it around really easily also at the same time as well it is super super light i would recommend
chucking it up in the air like i am doing here but you can see it is a very very small little
dinky pc however who is this for well what this has been designed for is for people who basically
have maybe got a games console or even say a smart phone or tablets and things like this but there
are some tasks what you just can't really do on a smartphone or a tablet unless you get yourself
a really expensive tablet like an ipad pro to do all your needs but this is where this little pc
steps in what it is it's mobile and it's small and in fact look at this unboxing video that i
have right here this is the actual pouch that i got with it you can see it's really really tiny
and then if i start to like unzip it here look inside we've got some cards and everything and
you know vip passes and also a little instruction guide as well you can see it all just fits in this
nice little case here i've got my power cable and i've also got my pico pc and i can just zip
it up again afterwards just put it away and then i can just take it on the road with me it is really
small and it is really really dinky it is great for this so this little pc is for those people
who just need something a little bit more better to run say windows or let's say ubuntu or you know
something what your tablet or your smartphone can't do it but you need it in a small factor
form because at the end of the day if you were to go into the shops and buy yourself say a computer
desktop you're going to get a massive giant tower and basically what this is is just a small little
solution what you can just take around with you you could even probably take yourself a small
mini keyboard and mouse but let's have a quick look at this actual picker pc and let's see what
we've actually got on it so let's start with the front so on the front we have the actual power
button a little black square we have there and we also have two usb 3.0 ports as well and we also
have a tf card reader for a micro sd card what can also go in the very very front so that is really
really handy let's turn it around to the back now and get a closer look so on the back here we do
have a usbc port but what that actually is that is actually the power that comes for this actual
pico pc because it's so small just only requires usbc to power it on however also on the back we
do have another usb 3.0 port we've also got a usb 2.0 port so if you just want to plug in your
keyboard for example your mouse i can go in that port instead there's also a headphone port so if
you want to plug in your headphones or speakers that's really good and then there's a hdmi port
and that hdmi port on the back actually supports 4k video footage what i'll test in a moment and
show you guys because it's really really amazing that this little pc can actually output at 4k on
a big monitor or on a tv if you want to take this out and about with you other features
inside it include a wi-fi card so this allows you for 2.4 or 5 gigahertz wi-fi if you wanted
to connect to that also at the same time as well there is an option of different amounts of ram
and storage so inside this actual little pico pc that i have right here i've got eight gigabytes
of ram it can be configured up to that but the actual kind of base model what it comes with what
the starting price will start at comes with four gigabytes but you can configure it up to eight
also the same with storage it starts at 64 gigabytes but you can configure it all the way
up to one terabyte of storage in this palace there's also that micro sd card slots you can add
additional storage actually inside this this model here i've got is 256 gigabytes and then
also finally the actual processor inside this actual pico pc is actually an intel gemini lake
j4125 what is a four times core processor running at two point seven gigahertz it is a seller one
processor but we will do a little benchmark on this in a mo also at the same time as well
it does come pre-loaded with windows 10 on it and i've been told by the guys that it can also
run and is ready to run windows 11 when it does come out some point next year i believe was it
this year i can't remember but whenever it does come out it will be ready for windows 11. but you
can also install other operating systems on it if you wanted to do so you could install ubuntu
if you want to you could even do dual kind of hard drive sort of boot up if you want to do two
partitions actually on the little hard drive insiders if you really want to go on that route so
if you're liking the sound of this pico pc already make sure to check out the kickstarter links i'm
putting below again and it will also also be in the description but let's cable this up now
and let's do a bit of a test with it now i'm going to do a benchmark first of all
then afterwards i'm going to try a bit of office on it and then after that i'm also going to try
doing a bit of xbox sort of a game cloud sort of streaming onto this and we're also going to play
some 4k footage on a 4k monitor from youtube and see how good that is so first of all i ran
a pc benchmark on this machine and to be deadly honest if you look at the results here they're
not the strongest in the world in fact you can see actually to be honest they're a bit weak
but remember what this machine is for it is not designed to be a gaming rig what it's designed
for is actually to be able to just basically do your kind of word documents on it browse the web
do those tasks that are a little bit more hard to do say on your tablet and on your smartphone
and also just come in a great small size so for that this has got enough power inside it so next
of all let's um boot up office so i've installed office 365 already i'm just going to load up word
for example and let's just see let's just type in hello here i'm just going to type that in
and let's just fiddle around with it a little bit and change some colors and the font may be around
and as you can see here i can click around some of the different sort of menus and that all works
absolutely fine so yeah word is working absolutely fine office 365. so next of all let's move on to
powerpoint and let's see how well powerpoint runs on this little pico pc that we have right
here so again just opening it up here it's going to have a blank slide and just type in something
here there's a test and yeah that's a do a suggestion sort of slides that we've got here
and there we go that's applied that theme and again fiddling around with the menus
everything just seems absolutely fine so finally let's just do a quick test now in
excel and see if excel will work fine i'm sure it will but let's just do a little test then
so as we can see here excel opens up absolutely fine we've got a blank spreadsheet open let's
do a little bit of maths here let's put five and five and let's just write a little sum out here
and there we go that's working absolutely fine and again i'm just filling around with the menus
everything seems totally good with this pico pc so as you can see this little mini pc just for
doing your standard sort of office 365 sort of jobs is absolutely fine as well browsing
the web is something that is no problem if we can basically open up word powerpoint in excel
browsing the web is going to be nothing on this basically it's going to be absolutely fine
just don't open up say more than say 10 tabs for example because it might strain the cpu a
little bit but that's not what this is designed for it's not designed to be a powerhouse it's
designed like i said to be a pc to take out on the road with you so next of all let's do a test
of doing a bit of gaming on this so i actually have got an xbox controller and i've connected it
up to this uh pico pc here i'm just going to play a bit of halo 3. let's see how good i am on this i
cut it's been a long time driving a warthog and as you can see i'm not the best player in the world
but it works and it works absolutely fine this is like i said this is on the xbox gaming cloud
so this is streaming straight to the pico pc right now so you can play those kind of games and just
in case you just didn't notice guys this is my portable little screen that i've got a little um
15 inch screen and this is perfect for the pico pc so yeah i can take this on the go with my pico pc
at the same time so it's absolutely fantastic so finally with the pico pc let's now do a test of 4k
footage so what i'm going to do is i'm going to connect this up to my 4k 32 inch monitor
and then also crank up the speakers and try and find like a 4k video on youtube and see how well
that plays on this piko pc so i found this sample so let's have a listen to see what happens
so as you can see guys this is a great mini pc and like i said for something just to take out
an about with you to do a bit of casual gaming on and also at the same time as well to maybe
write up a word document or for example just browsing the internet with multiple tabs open
on a kind of traditional kind of windows setup this is absolutely fantastic
the other great thing what you could do with this i guess is that you could connect this up say to
your tv and have this as a little media sort of server to stream to if you wanted to do that a
lot of smart tvs out there they are great and they are smart but they're a bit slow if you get what i
mean so one of these sort of processes in it even though it's just a celeron processor can handle
that job really well and as you can see it can push out 4k with no problems on one of these but
like i said guys if you want more information about this pico pc make sure to check out the
links that i'm putting down below and also i'll be putting them in the description
but do check out this kickstarter because i do think this is a really really cool pc
so yeah go and have a look well guys it's time to leave now but if you have enjoyed watching
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