Sapphire Mini PC Offer Updated and Upgraded

Sapphrie may be best known for its collection of desktop video and motherboards, but it has other business outlets as well, such as the market for mini personal computers, which it has just supplied with a new product.

Sapphire has long been a provider of low-end, mainstream and high-end video cards and motherboards to users from all around the world.

This is shown all the time, by such things as the introduction of the AMD FM1 Pure Platinum A75 Motherboard.

This once, however, the company did not unleash some new board of any kind, at least not on its own, as Sapphire's sight set upon the mini PC market instead.

The outfit unleashed the EDGA-HD about five months ago, with today marking the coming of a new and improved version dubbed EDGE-HD2.

Its most notable improvement over the previous-generation system is that the central processing unit is the Atom D525 dual-core, clocked at 1.8 GHz, not the D510 1.66 GHz model (also dual-core).

Other than that, the newcomer features 2 GB of DDR3-800 RAM (random access memory), as well as a 2.5-inch hard disk drive with a storage capacity of 320 GB (the EDGE-HD had a 250 GB HDD).

Furthermore, the NVIDIA ION 2 GPU (graphics processing unit) is present, complete with 512 MB of VRAM.

Needless to say, connectivity and I/O options are implemented, the list including HDMI, D-Sub, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, among other things.

Finally, when it comes to the software side of the equation, Sapphire threw in the Windows 7 Ultimate Edition and Free DOS.

All the components are packed inside a slim and lightweight case, consume 30W and amount to a total weight of 530 grams.

Consumers can take a look at the Shuttle R4 Series Barebone Mini PC Foxconn Nettops or similar offers from Onkyo if they wish to make comparisons.