H1 Hardware Specs

CPU: 2 x 1.6GHz Intel Atom 330 CPU, 533MHz FSB.

Chipset: Nvidia Ion 450MHz 9400 GPU , 1100MHz Shader Clock,

Memory: 1 x 2GB DDR2 200-pin SODIMM RAM (800MHz) Included.

Ethernet: Realtek 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN

WLAN: Integrated Mini PCI Express 802.11n Wi-Fi Card with 3dB antenna

Audio: Realtek ALC662 Audio Codec (5.1 Channel HD audio, 7.1 Channel Suport over HDMI) Digital SP/DIF Output

Rear I/O: 4 x USB 2.0 Port, HDMI (w/ 7.1 Audio), DVI, Gb LAN, Optical Audio Out, Coaxial Audio, Audio In/Out, 19.2V DC Input.

Storage: 40GB Intel X25-V Solid State Drive with Read Speed of 175 MB/s  and Write Speed of 40 MB/s.

Additional Features: Direct X 10.0 Support, PureVideo HD, Blu-Ray Playback, HDCP, Wake on USB, Wake on LAN.

Power Standard: 19.2 V DC Input, 90W AC Adapter (External Brick). Can be supplied with 12V DC Input (PicoPSU) and 60W AC Adapter on request.

Power Deluxe: 19.2 V DC Input, 90W AC Adapter (External Brick)

Power Consumption 30W at Peak, 21W on average.

Size: 25.0 x 16.8 x 2.2 cm.

Weight: 486g with SSD, 506g with HDD.

OS: Ubuntu 10.04 or Windows 7 Home Premium

The H1 motherboard is extremely efficient. The Intel SSD and RAM are visible along with the Mini PCIe WLAN module.

Pictured on the right is a thick copper heatsink and low profile “blower” fan. The copper tubes take heat from the processor to vents on the side and the fan blows air over them.

It’s the same way laptop computers are cooled and it allows us to produce such an incredibly small PC but it does mean that when the CPU is under load, the fan will kick in and can be noisy. If silence is important to you, you are better served with our quieter D2 or our fanless PCs

Computer Shopper Magazine Reviews Aleutia’s H1 (August, 2009):

“The H1 is roughly the size of a car stereo, and will happily fit under a monitor stand or on a shelf. You’ll have to make sure you don’t block the perforated metal vents on the case, though, as the H1 relies on passive cooling. This also means there aren’t any noisy fans, so if you need a quiet PC, this is ideal.”
Read the Full Review at: http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/labs/260281/aleutia-h1-hotel-pc.html

Etchshadow User Review (September 19, 2009):

“Asking around lead some friends to recommend the Aleutia H1, and wow, shiny. Small, fanless (unless you get the dual core deluxe edition), able to play 1080p HD videos, low power usage, and rather cheap for what it is! I went for a slightly meaty version – the deluxe dual core edition with wifi, plus 4GB of RAM (base is 2GB, but it was a cheap upgrade and more RAM is always nice). No drive, since the original plan was to boot via PXE from my server running under the stairs. This little lot cost a grand total of £338.10, including delivery and VAT. Possibly could have got it cheaper if I had built my own and been quite selective about what went into it, but frankly, I doubt I’d have saved much money, it probably would have taken much more time and effort, and at heart I’m a software guy – to me hardware is “the black box that runs my software”.

Having ordered it on Wednesday and read the “Hand Built to Order. Ships 4 Days from Order Placed.” section, I then settled down to wait out the curse of online shopping – you can probably find exactly what you want but must endure delayed gratification. So I was incredibly pleasantly surprised to receive an email from the Founder of Aleutia on Thursday thanking us for the order, saying that it would be with us on Friday, and asking what our plans were for it!

Actually dealing with, and hearing from, Real Human Beings in the course of an online purchase (having become so used to the facelessness of Amazon and friends) was really nice – receiving the goods about 5+ calendar days sooner than expected wasn’t too bad either!”

Read the Full Review at: http://etcshadow.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/shiny-new-mythtv-box/

Kristian Sotiroff (London), User Review, June 29th, 2009 (Standard Edition with 4GB RAM, 8GB Drive):

The new box is going great. I’m not too used to using ubuntu (I prefer centos) but once I worked out what the aleutia password is then it was plain sailing to get mythbuntu installed and then run it as a remote frontend. I’ve finally plugged it into my 37″ HD telly via HDMI and it looks brilliant.
My previous setup was a Silverstone lc11m box with a Zalman cpu cooler running centos 5 & mythtv v0.21 outputting via s-video to the tv. It probably ran at less than whisper level, but any noise during a quiet movie is too much. And the hard disk vibration got a bit annoying. So I plan to pack it under the stairs and use it as a backend only.
Very happy with the new box.