We grabbed our power consumption figures by putting some load on the system using PCMark 7. For all systems we left them to idle for a bit and then took a typical idle measurement before putting them under PCMark 7 load and grabbing the maximum power consumption after a few loops of the test.
The NUC made some dramatic power consumption gains over the older Atom D525 models consuming a tiny 12W at idle and 23W at the highest load power draw. 23W really is nothing and for a unit that packs more performance than some Atom systems these are fantastic figures. The mSATA probably further helps reduce power draw by avoiding the high power consumption of some mechanical drives that mini PC vendors use.
It’s not for me personally atm. It’ll be a long time before I warm to something like this. If it goes from strength to strength and drops in price it could be viable.
Yeh that is basically what it needs. About a 30% price reduction to make it more attractive. I’d take a normal desktop system or laptop anyday.
These are turning out to be quite popular in the corporate space. More then enough power to do most tasks and support depts. love these as it is easy to just swap out when one goes wrong, resulting in little user downtime.