The new ‘Pinnacle Canyon’ NUC kits start at $129
A brace of new NUC (Next Unit of Computing) became available for pre-order from Amazon a couple of days back. These latest additions to Intel’s three-year-old range of barebone PCs are the same Braswell-powered models we told you about in May: the $172 NUC5PPYH and the $129 NUC5CPYH.
While the former is powered by a quad-core Intel Pentium N3700 chip with a base clock of 1.6GHz and a burst frequency of 2.4GHz, the latter packs a dual-core Celeron N3050 processor with a base clock of 1.6GHz and a burst frequency of 2.16GHz. Both models are identical in all other regards, and pack four USB 3.0 ports (including one for charging), an HDMI 1.4a port, VGA port, TOSLINK optical digital audio output, SDXC card reader, gigabit Ethernet port, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0. Further, both models support a 2.5-inch SATA III SSD/HDD and a single SO-DIMM memory module. Although both SKUs were available for pre-order initially, the NUC5CPYH is now listed as “currently unavailable” on Amazon.
For those unfamiliar with the Braswell line, allow us to bring you up to speed. The Braswell family includes low-cost chips based on the 14nm Airmont architecture. They are meant to replace Intel’s Silvermont-based 22nm Bay Trail-D SoCS in the entry-level desktop segment, and feature a couple of key improvements over the latter in that they support more USB 3.0 ports and up to 8GB of DDR3L-1600 RAM.
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