It’s called Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen and it’s already available on YouPin, Xiaomi’s crowdfunding platform in China, where it costs about 134 euros more or less to change.
More interesting products to swell the huge and prolific catalog of Xiaomi, which a few days ago internationally launched its response to Amazon’s Kindle in order to continue covering needs with and portfolio of electronic products that misses virtually no market lineneither that of the mini-PCs that accompany their laptops.
So, we now introduce you to Xiaomi Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen hand in hand with our colleagues GizmoChinawhich is not actually a Rubik’s Cube-like toy but rather a complete computer in the shape of a square cube and of tiny sizewhich does not lack enough power for an infinity of useful applications.
Obviously its name gives it away, and it is that the casing and its design is inspired by a Rubik’s cubeputting all the components in a plastic square of only 62 x 62 x 44 millimeters and 145 grams of weightwhich in the end are dimensions similar to those of any toy of this type.
This is all that the Xiaomi Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen offers us
The new mini-PC de origin Xiaomi it is more powerful than you expectbecause it has to start with an electronic heart Intel Celeron J4125 with quad-core processor up to 2.7 GHz, made with 14 nanometer lithograph and that also integrates UHD Intel 600 graphics.
In addition, the new Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen mounts DDR4 RAM and an M.2 solid state drive of variable capacities according to the chosen configuration, thus being able to enjoy reading and writing speeds of up to 500 MB/s that give it the possibility of start up in just 10 seconds.
Xiaomi presents on YouPin the second generation of the ‘mini-PC’ Ningmei Rubik’s Cube, tiny in size but with enough power to turn on in just 10 seconds and work without blinking an eye in a lot of activities including multimedia applications.
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Regarding connectivity, we will find one HDMI portothers two USB 3.0 portsand slot memory expansion microSD and the headphone jack standard 3.5-millimeter jack, plus a port Gigabit Ethernet and various wireless protocols.
Obviously, yes we will have wifi and dual-band 2.4G/5G capabilities, plus Bluetooth LEwhich will allow us to connect practically any type of wireless peripheral, including keyboards, mice or speakers, among many other basics.
Regarding energy, food is provided by a standard of new invoice as the Type-C USBso you will have no problem getting a compatible charging cable.
A good design exercise, the interior of the Xiaomi Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen.
Xiaomi Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen, availability and prices
You see that it really is a small computer but thuguseful for certain types of user and many applications in the smart home, above all, that will be available in two versions 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage or 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of memory.
Both models of the Ningmei Rubik’s Cube 2nd-Gen can be bought now in china from the platform of crowdfunding YouPinat prices ranging from 989 yuan (about 134 euros) of the mini-PC basic up to 1,199 yuan (163 euros more or less) if we want the one with the highest capacity.
Do we accept it as an alternative already assembled to the Raspberry Pi?