You’ll need to remove four small screws to completely take out the board from the case. The Wi-Fi antenna can be seen on the left of the enclosure. There are also a few through holes on the bottom right, and an unused 10-pin connector on the left of the board, but I can’t really guess what these are for. We’ll find a battery for RTC as well as the 32GB FORESEE NCEFEH58-32G eMMC flash on the bottom of the board. You’ll need a small plastic tool to unclip the bottom of the case, which comes out rather easily. The power button and IR receiver are on the front panel, two USB ports and a micro SD slot can be found on the side, with the rear panel featuring an headphone jack, the Ethernet port, HDMI output, a micro USB port, and the power jack. The power supply included takes 100 ~ 240V 50/60 Hz input, and outputs up to 5V/3A. Most of the times Intel mini PC only come with the power supply, but the package also included an HDMI cable. Kingnovel sent me the parcel with DHL, and I received in a simple cardbox marked with “Wintel Box”. One noticeable difference is the presence of an IR receiver which can be used in Android, but not in Windows… The Android firmware includes the Google Play Store and Kodi 15 alpha. Misc – Power Button, power LED, small battery for RTC, IR receiver.USB – 2x USB 2.0 host, 1x micro USB OTG port.Storage – 32 GB eMMC (16, 64 and 128GB as options) + micro SD card slot.SoC – I ntel Atom Z3735F “Bay Trail” quad core processor 1.33 GHz (Burst freq: 1.83 GHz) with Intel HD graphics.Hardware-wise the box has mostly the same boring specifications as almost any other Intel Atom Z3735F products on the market:

Today, I’ll go through the specs first, take some pictures of the device, and tear it down to have a closer look at the hardware, and in a separate post I’ll quickly check out Windows 8.1, before spending a bit more time on Android 4.4 to see how well or bad Android runs on Intel platforms. Kingnovel sent me their K8 mini PC, better known as Wintel W8, based on Intel Atom Z3735F, and that can dual boot Windows 8.1 with Bing or Android 4.4. Last year, we were promised dual boot mini PC based on Intel that would run Windows 8.1 or Android 4.4, but finally companies decided against shipping a dual boot firmware, and simply loaded Windows 8.1 on their machines.

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