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Intel releases specs for upcoming Apollo Lake NUC mini computer

12/04/2016 at 9:33 PM by Brad Linder Leave a Comment

Intel’s first tiny desktop with an Apollo Lake processor is on the way. This summer we saw leaked documents indicating that the chip maker was working on a new Intel NUC mini computer with an Apollo Lake processor.

Now Intel has published official product specifications for the NUC NUC6CAYB board with a 10 watt Intel Celeron J3455 quad-core processor.

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As expected, Intel will offer a barebones NUC6CAYH model with no memory, storage, or operating system, and a NUC6CAYS version that comes with 2GB of RAM, 32GB of eMMC storage, and Windows 10 software.

The NUC board measures 4″ x 4″ square, but that’s just for the board itself. The computer case will be a bit bigger.

The system supports up to 8GB of DDR3L-1600 or 1866 memory and has USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, a 2.5″ drive bay for a hard drive or SSD, an SDXC card reader, HDMI 2.0 and VGA ports, and a mini TOSLINK jack for 5.1 channel or 7.1 channel audio

Intel says the computer can handle 4K/60fps content when connected to a display via HDMI or 1920 x 1200 pixel 60 Hz output over VGA.

There’s also a 3.5mm headset jack and a digital mic array header for use with Cortana and other voice software.

Intel’s new NUC features Gigabit Ethernet and features an M.2 2230 card with 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2.

via NUC Blog

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2GB RAM… Come on, 1 month to 2017 and 2GB Ram ?

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It’s up to 8gb.

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Two different models, the one that comes bare supports up to 8 GB of RAM, the other has 2 GB but it’s soldered and cannot be upgraded further (classic low-end device with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of slow eMMC storage).

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As far as I can tell from the spec sheet, the CPU is soldered for both models, but the 2GB RAM is a removable SO-DIMM that just happens to come pre-installed.

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My bad, it looks like you’re right.

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HDMI CEC would be a nice addition. Kodi on odroid c2 is working great for me. I have not found any 4k or h265 file that it can’t play. $42 for the board and $8 for the micro SD card. I can see the NUC and windows being good for paid streaming. Personally, I would rather own a separate streamer and odroid over a NUC.

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http://www.notebookcheck.net/f…

Apollo Lake supports HEVC Main10 hardware decoding up to 8K resolution, same as Kaby Lake & VP9 Profile0 hardware decoding up to 4K resolution.

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As far as I understand, Apollo Lake does HEVC 8-bit, not 10.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/…

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This review says that it is 10 bits HEVC compatible using KODI 17:
http://androidpc.es/blog/2016/…

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Cost from Intel will be like $400 when Chinese models will be $100 max.

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Exactly, Intel is at least double on the sales price consistently. However, if Intel gets good at the hardware game and produces reliable, highly integrated products, they can target enterprise (which is typically happy to pay for reliability and support).

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It looks to me like the UP Squared will be about the same size, but better with LPDDR4, lots of ports for expansion/storage, onboard eMMC in various amounts, Apollo lake Celeron, Atom, and quad core Pentium options, and of course GPIO connections.

I’d take an UP board over the price premium for the NUC name.

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Anyone else freaked out a little by the built-in DMICs?
With Windows leeching so much data through telemetry and without it having the permission systems of mobile OSes it’s a little worrying.
Although having said that I guess laptops have always connected microphones too.
Still, weird to see it on a desktop.

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You could disable them through device manager.

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Not if I want some legitimate apps to use them. I’d have to re-enable every time a Skype call would come in, and knowing the registry a couple of on/off cycles later and something would be corrupt and require a restore point.

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I was envisioning you would use whatever alternative device(s) you would otherwise use on a desktop if the built in device wasn’t included. So if a plug in device, you could unplug it when not in use (or be like me and only have the headphone portion always plugged in, and leave the mic portion unplugged unless needed). If Bluetooth, you could turn it off when not in use.

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It needs those sliders that laptops have for covering the camera. I wish products were designed for physical add-ons to block microphones and cameras. I want the addon, but understand that most people don’t.

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One of my laptops has a dime attached to a piece of scotch tape, so I can just flip it out of the way when I want to use the camera. That was actually my wife’s idea.

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No USB-C 3.1 port but it has USB 2.0? At this point this is just stupid.

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