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welcome to my unboxing of the sapphire Edge HD 3 or cube to however you want to interpret that mini pcs so sapphire is no stranger to computer technologies especially ones built by AMD they've been doing graphics cards for AMD going back as far as like dinosaurs and they've also got some AMD motherboards but as far as all-in-one PCs go this is by far the most impressive product that I think they have yet released although I haven't seen one in person yet I have seen the marketing materials this is why I'm like skipping right to the like the part where the box opens and I think the thing out because I want to check this thing out in person before I say almost anything about it so inside we find some packing materials look at that foam they're all they're pretty like serious business about foaming it up in here making sure that your your PC arrives in one piece because and this is this is good foresight on their part because this is one of sapphires first things that they're shipping with a hard drive inside right so they're all like yeah normally video cards no big deal it gets shaken around a little bit what's gonna get damaged well a hard drive can so they've got a nice foam layer going on on all sides of this thing it feels very adequately protected in my personal opinion ok there's your driver disc don't you bother with that download the latest off the sapphire website quick installation guide so this covers quickly installing thanks to other things user manual so it's only six pages it's gotta be pretty straightforward here I've got some specs got some FCC things going on okay cool got like a sapphire product registration form it's got a power cord hey look at this we've got a an HDMI cable looks like it's even gold-plated that's handy because I needed an HDMI cable obviously the HDMI cable is not the point of the product but you know it's in here I might as well use it right there you go gold-plated HDMI action going on in there cool looks like it's about a meter all right we got a stand it's a little screw on the bottom it's rubberized on the bottom so it's not gonna go anywhere cool cool Oh check this out we also have an HDMI to DVI adapter that is single-link DVI guys because HDMI is pin the pin compatible with single-link DVI so you're not going to be going above 1920 by 1200 at 60 Hertz just remember that I mean there's probably not many scenarios where you would be doing that with this anyhow but there you are okay so you got a power cord you have your different power cord and finally let's get to it here it is I'm very excited about this don't laugh at me I'm talking to slick not the audience so there it is this is the Edge HD 3 here's our power button here's our hard drive activity LED here on the front we have two USB 3.0 ports there you go for that up got like a soft touch finish I realized like looking at it that it probably looks kind of just like dusty but when I go like this you can see it comes very very clean so it has it has a good way of like masking that so once you once you wipe it down once then it should be pretty much good to go so that's kind of nice I personally love these like rubberized grip II grippy feels on the bottom here we can see that looks like your hard drive right there next to the ventilation holes there's the screw on the bottom for attaching it to the stand if you should see fit and on the back we find our i/o so we have VGA just in case you still need it HDMI 2 USB 2.0 ports gigabit ethernet power as well as headphones and microphone ports so what makes this guy special is the real question here I'm just going to go ahead and attach it to a little stand a few things would be the answer here and number one is the fact that it uses AMD's e450 pee-yew so at APU if you guys do or don't recall I'm gonna say it anyway an APU is a combination CPU and graphics processing unit so what it means is you have DirectX 11 graphics power in this unit it is capable of running DirectX 11 titles I wouldn't expect to be running them on the highest details or the most demanding DirectX 11 titles but it can run DirectX 11 features so there you go so stuff like dirt 3 yes it will run off of this slimline PC which is very very cool it's got 4 gigs of memory the graphics card is equivalent to what would be called a Radeon 63 20 yes just double check sorry I have a hard time remembering which HD graphics core goes with which APU sometimes so inside here also for the CPU component of the APU is a 1.6 gigahertz dual-core I mean look at this form factor it's ridiculous yeah I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do the iPhone size comparison for those of you who think that I'm showing off that I have an iPhone I mean come on get real it's an iPhone 4 that's not the point the point is everyone knows how big an iPhone is so if I hold something up to an iPhone everyone knows how big it is so there you go that's the thickness comparison against the iPhone and here is the size comparison against the iPhone so this thing is just tiny considering the fact that it contains a full PC inside so it's got oh you know what I miss something I missed it because I didn't actually see it hold on a second guys we found it cleverly disguised is the Kensington compatible locking slot you see it looks just like a ventilation hole except slightly larger very convenient because if you're looking for a place whether you know you're good airport or in a coffee shop you need like a check-out terminal PC whatever else if you're looking for a low-power PC but you don't want someone to run off with it because it doesn't weigh much and it you know is very very small and can easily like you know I'm assuming I had a pocket here yeah hide it in a coat pocket or something like that you could easily run off with it if it isn't locked down speaking of low-power sapphire claims less than 30 watts under load for the whole PC holy crap so stay tuned on my NCIX comm channel where we're actually going to put all of their claims to task but that sounds very impressive especially because under a typical usage scenario you wouldn't come even close to that load power consumption because you're not even going to be loading the graphics core that's built into the APU one other thing about this particular unit is that it does not come with an operating system or rather I should say it doesn't come with a Windows operating system it comes with free dos or something like that so you're gonna have to source your own Windows operating system you know you can buy OEM copies online you don't have to buy the retail copies which are more expensive and like a big-box store buy just grab an OEM copy for around 100 bucks and you should be good to go or if you already have a retail Windows license then you can go ahead and reuse it on this machine as long as you're not still using it on the machine that you already have so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Edge HD 3 or cute whichever you 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