What is a nettop?

Technical progress is not slumbering. To keep up with the times, you need to be aware of all the new products appearing on the market, even if you do not plan to buy them yet. After all, who owns the information, owns the world. About computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones already know everything. But what is a nettop, has not yet completely figured out.

The very word - tracing paper from the English "nettop", formed from the constituent parts of the words "InterNET" and "deskTOP". If you try to translate what you have received, it will look something like a desktop computer. In fact, it is a stationary analog of a netbook.

Why not everyone knows what nettops are, it's easy to explain. In our country, most technological novelties do not come immediately. There are many reasons for this and it is pointless to understand them. While this technique is not very popular with us, so the information about it is quite scattered, and sometimes even confusing to the consumer. For example, many people identify nettops with monoblocks.

A monoblock is a scheme of a stationary PC. In it, the system unit, monitor, microphone, speakers and webcam are structurally integrated. Usually, the keyboard and mouse are selected separately. In fact, it is an LCD monitor, in the case of which there is a system unit.

Then what is a nettop? This is a small-sized personal computer, released by Intel during the announcement of Atom processors. It is projected that these processors should be To become a base for nettops. Initially, nettop was created to work mainly with Internet applications.

If very simple, then the nettop can be called a miniature system unit. It is easy to attach to the back of the monitor, hang on the wall, etc. (As to whom it is convenient). That is, this is a separate compact device that works exclusively from the network.

To understand what nettop is, remember the ASUS Eee Box or Acer AspireRevo. They are typical examples of such a computer.

The basis for this technique is a processor with energy-efficient microarchitectures (in other words, energy-efficient). It can be Intel Celeron, Intel Atom, VIA C7 or VIA Nano. The central processor can be single- or dual-core (1.2-1.6 GHz). The hard disk is designed for 80-500 GB. Video and sound cards are integrated, there is a DVD-drive, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB ports.

If you are interested in what is a nettop assembled in Russia, then you can pay attention to ARUTEK MediaBox, AxiomPC Micra, Wexler VisION and some others.

Nettop power, except for work with different network services and on the Internet, is enough for an amateur Bots with photos, listening to music, watching videos and undemanding (fairly simple) games. The newest models, however, are already equipped with chipsets, the built-in graphics of which allow you to watch movies in FullHD format. Already there is even a game nettop Alienware X51. But such models, of course, are expensive.

Now nettops are not only based on Intel Atom processors. The buyer can choose the processor at his own discretion. Today, they are increasingly being purchased for use as home servers.

What is a nettop from the position of user convenience? This compactness, minimum of wires, lightness, aesthetical simplicity of installation. Nettop performance is certainly lower than conventional PCs, but this is offset by their very small size and rather low power consumption.