Answers of your Questions Part IV
There had been another very interesting question about the different processor types. Here is the answer from Cornelia Kühling:
What is the difference between ESPRIMO Qs Core i3 processor vs Core2Duo or vs Atom?
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor is more or less the predecessor of the Intel® Core™ i3. Both focus on performance but still with good energy efficiency. Intel® Core™ i3 is the latest processor and therefore it offers the most performance vs the Core™ 2 Duo or the Intel® Atom™.
Intel® Atom™ is designed for price sensitive buyer an its perfect e.g. for browsing the web. But Intel® Atom™ has not the performance of a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo and of course not of the Intel® Core™ i3 which was built into the ESPRIMO Q1510.
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In our office we have Esprimo-like Mini PCs with Intel Atom processor inside. And guess, they are that slow. You can get and drink coffee while its booting and registering. Before we got other performent models we had to work with them for a while. It is nearly impossible to do complex work with Intel Atom processor based PCs, like Programming, Processing and Rendering. So i am with you. The choice for the i3 was right. It has 2 cores (4 threads) which are very performant but energy saving too. I never believed before, that this is possible.
While i was benchmarking the Esprimo i often was amazed of its performance. It's even better then my Vaio notebook i am doing my daily work with.
I guess you couldn't go with anything slower to support 1080p playback? Maybe ship the Esprimo with the full HD sticker, or is that only for displays?
Verena thanks for the answer.
Tell me though, are there any plans of new versions of Q1510? I mean it's a new hardware, so let's not get ahead of ourselves but I wonder how it will be managed in the future? Fujitsu will start selling completely new product, propose some upgrade possibilities or develop Q1510 ver. 2.0 with the same design but different specs?
Now the specs are OK and like Netbuzzr said - their sufficient for many business tasks. But what about in 3-4 years from now?
@RobertGrinde: I already posted this logo and told why it's not printed on the ESPRIMO.
The FULL HD logo which you posted is designed for FULL HD camcorders and FULL HD televisions. ;)
For displays there are also the black / white logos like the one in this post.
For computers there is actually no offical badge for playing Full HD media. ;)
But Fujitsu could create an own badge which displays the ability to play Full HD media :)
and again: many thanks to Cornelia Kühling for this information about the different cores :)
Woohoo - i can expand the esprimo up to 8gb memory size. that's quite a lot :) Maybe i should give it a try and install cubase on the esprimo. when i recorded music on my old pc there were many problems if i played back too many tracks at once. i hope that the esprimo can handle it far better. The only problem i see leads me to another question: What is about the onboard sound? can it handle music software like cubase, reason, ableton live and so on? For live recording it's very important to reach the lowest possible latency. can the onboard sound deal with it?
@Szymon: Here is the answer from Fujitsu:
IT industry is a fast moving business. E.g. every year, Intel brings new processors to the market. So we are evaluating constantly with our technology partners, designers and focus groups these new technologies and discuss what makes sense for a product for a certain target group and what not. This process is pretty similar for the design e.g. here you can see the design evaluation from the 3rd to 5th generation of the ESPRIMO Q series: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4317185&id=167362752421&fbid=408101297421#!/photo.php?pid=4317186&id=167362752421&fbid=408101312421
Well the processor is not everything, the storage capacity is also important, and 500GB won’t take you that far. If you want to transfer some HD video from your camcorder the little "Q" will be able to store about 10 - 20 hours of HD video, depending on the compression. It can even be as little as one hour if you are transferring uncompressed HD video. For normal users this might be enough, but for enthusiasts that store a lot of raw footage it's not the ideal solution. Of course we need to take the size of the little “Q” in account but as HD camcorders are becoming cheaper and available to more and more consumers it worth a thought.
Here you can see a quick pic of my fileserver, good luck fitting this into the little "Q" :D
And if you are into overclocking the processor, heat is going to be difficult to get rid of with the little "Q". Some of you already think the fan is making too much noise, but for me it is dead silent. If you would want to overclock it your options are a bigger heat sink or a faster fan, or both! And I don't think you will fit any of them in the little "Q".
In this picture you can see a much larger heatsink that would allow the processor to spin faster than it’s made for. I don’t think I’ll be able to fit it in the little “Q” :p
I'm sure the Intel i3 is the best available processor for the Esprimo Q1510. I surely know how annoying it is to use a device which lacks the performance designed for the use of it. For example if you would see any kind of throttling while watching FullHD materials, I'd say the device ain't working like its meant to work.
As you can see from the stats, it beats the alternatives clearly and is therefore also cost-effective choice compared to i5 for example, plus the noise caused by cooling will be much lower with i3.