Mini PC i53 Core i5 3317U 2.6GHz 4GB RAM 500GB HDD HD Graphics 4000 Gigabit LAN Bluetooth 802.11n - No Monitor

bad PC, speed is low... not as needed for i7

I've had this little box for 2 weeks at this point. It works great. It is basically a laptop without a screen, keyboard or DVD drive, and also comes with nothing installed on the hard drive except FreeDOS, and as such I think is a shade overpriced at $550. It's excellent on power usage. Uses 10W when on but idle, about 20W when watching a video clip, and 30W when playing a high end game with heavy graphics.Intel's embedded graphics used to be extremely slow. A 350MHz Pentium II computer with an Nvidia Riva TNT card (GEForce predecessor) outperforms a 1000MHz Pentium III with Intel's embedded graphics, that's how bad Intel used to be, and not much changed on that front for 10 years. This computer has Intel's HD Graphics 4000. Appears to perform a little better than low end and older Nvidia and AMD cards, such as the Radeon HD 5450. That's a big improvement over past Intel graphics offerings. And Intel looks to be fulfilling their talk of supporting Linux. Works perfectly in Linux. Google Earth in Linux is reasonably fast and smooth.I also installed Windows 7, and LOTRO to further test the graphics. I used the latest graphics driver (version 15.31.3.64.3071). For the rest of the necessary Windows drivers, most especially the LAN interface, have to install the ones that Giada provided on an included CD. I looked for downloads in case the drivers on the CD were out of date, but didn't find any. (Bit annoying that they put all this on a CD when the computer doesn't come with a CD drive.) It mostly works, but had a few crashes, and saw corruption of the graphics. Would sometimes see polygons smeared all the way across the screen, or flickering around some point, and sometimes had grainy flashing snow in place of textures. The game is still playable, but the graphics issues detract considerably. Don't see such problems with LOTRO on PCs with an Nvidia or AMD graphics card. Perhaps these problems are caused by bugs in the graphics driver, and future Intel releases will fix them. Until they do, stick to Linux. This problem with the graphics in Windows is why I am not giving this computer 5 stars.

Is replacing 2 old boxes to run as backup manager PC, security cameras control, and Image DB manager software.Performance is honest and enough.It laks a firewire connection in my case.