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Foxconn Nano PC nT-i1500 Barebone Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2012-04-02

Foxconn has brought us to the table the latest generation of Intel Atom CPUs, by using the small Nano PC chassis which features about the same layout inside as the barebones we have tested from them in the past. The system power consumption is very low, temperatures are good in load and the noise generated is decent. Only thing that needs to be fixed to make this product fully functional is the VGA driver which in its current state offers low performance in both 2D and 3D environments, and Intel does not offer any support for x64 OSes.

A Closer Look Part III

The top side of the case also features a Kensington lock; before removing the top side of the case, make sure that all 4 small screws are removed, each one located in a corner:

After carefully removing the top cover, we can expose the internals of the Nano PC:

An add-on card can be installed in the supplied mini PCI-E slot, located near the card reader unit:

Near the card reader, we will find the microphone and headphone jacks:

The tiny speaker is an independent module, with the 1.2W, 8 Ohm ratings:

Near it there are the Power and Sleep buttons, soldered onto the PCB:

Only one SODIMM slot is offered and we can install DDR3 1066 up to 4GB, but on the market we can also see available 8GB modules of the same size:

The small fan is not noisy at all; when the computer is powered up for the first time, we will see that the fan does not start up right away and usually it takes a while, depending on the load levels of the system:

Comment from KingKong75 @ 2012/12/23

I really like the design of this nano-pc.
It is really small and the perf is correct.
I install Windows Server 2012 as a backup server

Foxconn is pretty new in the pc market (with their own brand).
Currently they don't support 64 bit OS (no 64 bit drivers available).
It seems they support only Windows 7 32bit
Hopefully, Windows Server 2012 recognize almost all the devices (not the soundcard, nor the wifi device).

Intel does not support the GPU (gma 3600). What a shame.

I downloaded their last firmware, but there is no information about the firmware (only flash file).
I did hardly the flash (yes, you must create your own dos bootable usb device to flash).

Anyway, hopefully as a server, it works pretty well (i don't need the soundcard nor the wifi). I regret only there is no sleep mode on Windows Server 2012 (Microsoft think it is a nonsense to have sleep mode on a server

).

My verdict is :

hardware : 9/10
software/drivers : 1/10

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