I had not heard much about these uSFF PCs and nabbed one of these off ebay for the 8500T and Windows 10 LTSB Enterprise edition thinking I was going to transplant to my Alantic case that had been vacated of the P8Z77/i3770K build that was inside. However after throwing in a SATA SSD loaded with Linux I had I started to change my mind as the HP is a shade less than 1.2L and has a credible amount of connectivity inside and out. Ended up putting the Windows(2016 LTSB) loaded M.2 back in after messing with it under Linux and hearing that it was reasonably quiet(laptop level with the similar cooler). There are still some things the Intel iGPUs are supported much better on and I needed Win10 for getting into VPN at work(another topic) anyway here's the rest of the story.
Prodesk with adapter which can be trimmed in size greatly with a GaN design, can almost fit the PC portion in the IO shield area of a regular mobo.
Similar footprint area wise
The original plan
The box came with VGA but these HDMI 2.0a option boards are readily available on ebay, made the swap in about 5 mintues plays 4kx60 no problem using VLC and hardware acceleration on Linux, 2400g can't do that due to VLC/ffmpeg issues, MPV will work.
Came with 1x8GB stick, added a second
Beside the SATA drive bay there's 3xM.2 including the short Wifi(Intel 9560), pic taken before I loaded the original SSD back in
The Wifi/BT antennas, there is a punch out for a regular antenna under the cover and another on the right side so a traditional dual antenna setup can be used.
Oval speaker on the left, thermal sensor to the right of that, full port specs in link
https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c06043924.pdf
Prodesk with adapter which can be trimmed in size greatly with a GaN design, can almost fit the PC portion in the IO shield area of a regular mobo.
Similar footprint area wise
The original plan
The box came with VGA but these HDMI 2.0a option boards are readily available on ebay, made the swap in about 5 mintues plays 4kx60 no problem using VLC and hardware acceleration on Linux, 2400g can't do that due to VLC/ffmpeg issues, MPV will work.
Came with 1x8GB stick, added a second
Beside the SATA drive bay there's 3xM.2 including the short Wifi(Intel 9560), pic taken before I loaded the original SSD back in
The Wifi/BT antennas, there is a punch out for a regular antenna under the cover and another on the right side so a traditional dual antenna setup can be used.
Oval speaker on the left, thermal sensor to the right of that, full port specs in link
https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c06043924.pdf
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