Zbox ID81

[sm625]

It is on newegg for just over $200, no ram, no hdd, and no OS.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16856173041

A Celeron 857 is a 1.2GHz dual core sandy bridge chip.

It says it has USB 3.0.

Power consumption is on par with AMD-E450

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nettop-performance-review,3211-7.html

It beats the E-350 at 3DMark06 but not the E-450. It is in the right ballpark though.

It slaughters the E-450 in most benches and when it loses it only loses by a tiny bit.

 

[Dman8777]

It's too bad they don't have a cheaper version of the ID82 without HD/Ram. 420$ for that with a slow HD and 2 GB ram is a bit much imo.

 

[PCTC2]

It's too bad they don't have a cheaper version of the ID82 without HD/Ram. 420$ for that with a slow HD and 2 GB ram is a bit much imo.

They do, it's just OoS. The ID82-PLUS has the HDD and RAM. The ID82-U does not have RAM or HDD for ~$350

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883218020

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?...0e84810a6e13b4

I have a ZBOX-ID40-PLUS and I like the size. Gets a little toasty even with an Atom but I use it as my linux terminal. Toss in a SSD and you're golden.
As for the Celeron over the Core i3, with the Celeron it doesn't have the Intel HD 2000 graphics even. The Celeron graphics have 6EU but lack QuickSync. The Core i3 has Intel HD 3000 graphics with QuickSync and the Core i3 has hyper threading. Just depends on your use case.