Puget Systems – the company that developed mini computers Echo I and Echo II, introduced the new PC from this line: the new computer with assumable name Echo III. New desktop has compact black corpus Lian Li PC-Qo8 with the following dimensions: 33.2 x 27.9 x 40.6 cm.

Dimensions of Echo III

Dimensions of Echo III

The new little black box runs on Intel Core i5 or i7, mounted on Zotac H55ITX-A-E mini ITX motherboard with Intel H55 chipset. It has one PCI-E x16 slot and support up to 8 GB DDR3 memory. Puget Systems managed also to find space for a closed loop liquid cooling system, thus making it new computer not only small but also noiseless.

The Echo III mini-PC has 10 USB 2.0 and one RJ45 Ethernet ports, HDMI and optic audio outlets. There is an option for Wi-Fi adapter and Blu-ray disk drive.

Sounds like a powerful big desktop PC, but of course the price of cosines is not so small – basic configuration of Echo III with quad-core Intel i5 processor, 4 GB DDD3 memory, GeForce 250 video card and 500 GB HDD is about 1500 USD.

The eMachines company presented their new EZ1601-01 nettop with some very original design solutions. First impression is that this is actually a desktop PC with monitor, keyboard, mouse. But than you realize that there is no desktop itself and it is the design of the nettop that makes it as comfortable to work on as on a desktop.

ez1601-01

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