Giada Ultra Mini PC i50

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Pros:

Compact design, Comes with VESA mount kit, USB 3,0, Decently sized 500GB hard drive, Bluetooth, 802,11 Wi-Fi, No bloatware.
Incredibly small and light; sips power.
Spacious hard drive, Speedy for its size, Slim case.

Cons:

No optical drive will limit your media experience to digital downloads, Limited feature set.
Could use a faster CPU and GPU; slight fan whine.

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Last revision on April 27, 2012

Reviewers Liked

Compact design, Comes with VESA mount kit, USB 3,0, Decently sized 500GB hard drive, Bluetooth, 802,11 Wi-Fi, No bloatware
Incredibly small and light; sips power
Spacious hard drive, Speedy for its size, Slim case

Reviewers Didn't Like

No optical drive will limit your media experience to digital downloads, Limited feature set
Could use a faster CPU and GPU; slight fan whine
Plastic case looks and feels cheap

Expert reviews and ratings

The Giada Ultra MiniPC i50 nettop will prove a good companion if you're looking for a compact home entertainment PC to watch Netflix streaming or a solution to stream your iTunes downloads, but there are better, more full-featured systems out there...

By PC Mag on September 27, 2011

Perhaps you’ve heard about our concept for the Velcro PC: a computer so small, light, and unobtrusive that you could literally affix it to the back of your HDTV. That concept might have finally arrived in Giada’s i50 PC. Similar to the...

By Maximum PC on August 01, 2011

This svelte PC is pretty fast for a compact desktop. Giada Ultra Mini PC i50: Slim and Speedy Giada Ultra Mini PC i50 Review, by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal June 15, 2011 The Giada Ultra Mini PC i50 is a slim, lightweight compact PC with a relatively...

By PCWorld on June 15, 2011

We're testing four nettops: Arctic Cooling’s MC001-BD, ASRock’s CoreHT 252B, Giada’s i50, and Zotac’s Zbox AD03BR-PLUS. All of these tiny, quiet systems take a very different approach to compact computing, and we fill you in on what makes them...

By Tom's Hardware UK on October 10, 2011

über den Giada i50 fällt wirklich nicht leicht. In vielen grundlegenden Bereichen zeigt der Mini-PC eine ordentliche Leistung, doch bleibt es leider nicht immer bei diesem ersten Bild.Beispielhaft kann man hier die Verarbeitung nennen, welche...

By HardTecs4U on October 28, 2011

Aujourd'hui, la Ferme accueille encore un Mini PC Giada, le petit i50. Un modèle plus haut de gamme, avec un joli i5-430 UM en guise de processeur, épaulé par 2Go de mémoire. Le compagnon idéal d'un bureau ou d'une...

By CowcotLand on October 14, 2011