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Shuttle XPC Slim DX30 Barebone Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2017-02-22

XPC Slim DX30 is one of the latest passively cooled Mini-PCs from Shuttle, which does sport the Intel Celeron J3355 Apollo Lake dual-core SoC. The barebone can be equipped with no less than 8GB of DDR3L SODIMM RAM, a M.2 SSD, one 2.5’’ HDD/SSD while the wireless connectivity is assured by the manufacturer thanks to the preinstalled M.2-2230 WLAN card with Realtek RTL8188EE Controller. The product does feature a lot of interfaces so it can be used at home, in offices but also for industrial applications; in all cases, the overall power consumption is very small thanks to the technological process of the new Intel cores.

A Closer Look Part II

The power adapter was manufactured by Asian Power Devices Inc. and is rated on the output 19V at 2.1A:

The PSU cable ends up with a jack plug:

Next, we do have the VESA mounts available:

The driver disk is also supplied with the product but we can always download these from the manufacturers’ website:

The Shuttle XPC Slim DX30 comes with a refreshed design, but still resembles the shape of an external optical disk drive (1.3 litre steel chassis); versus the previous versions of the case, the DX30 does come with a decorative silver stripe, which integrates it perfectly in both home and office environments:

In the frontal area of the unit, we can easily spot the microphone and headphone jacks, the Power and HDD activity LEDs, one central Power button, a SD card reader but also two USB 3.0 ports:

In the back, there are tons of interfaces available; we will enumerate these from left to right:

-WLAN antenna port

-connector for external power button/Clear CMOS and 5V DC voltage

-4x USB 2.0 ports

-PS/2 Combo port

-RJ45 Gigabit LAN port

-COM1 Port (supports RS232/RS422/RS485)

-COM2 Port (supports only RS232)

-DisplayPort video output

-HDMI video output

-DC-IN Power input

-perforation for the second Wi-Fi antenna

On the left and right sides of the unit, we do have available ventilation holes, but also Kensington Lock ports:

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