bottle shape "DG-CANPC"
Small PC with built-in battery characteristic of bottle shape
"DG-CANPC"
"Diginnos DG-CANPC" is a displayless PC with Windows 10 installed.
It is sold at Dospara stores throughout the country and mailboxes
on Doppara mail order sites, and the price by tax is 26,800 yen
for models with Windows 10 Home and 31,800 yen
for Windows 10 Pro models.
The main feature is the body design of the bottle type.
The shape of a cylinder like a water bottle is about 66 x 181 mm
(diameter x height), designed to be fitted to a common bottle holder.
It weighs as much as 470 g, and it's about the same weight as
a 500 ml size plastic bottle. Moreover, 3,800 mAh battery is built
in the main body, it can also be used in mobile environment.
It is supposed to be used as a car PC in the third wave diginos.
The main body is about 500 ml PET bottle size
SoC is Atom x7 - Z8700 (4 cores, 1.6 GHz, with built - in video function), DDR 3 L 4 GB memory as memory, 32 GB eMMC internal storage. As you can see from the fact that Atom is adopted, it is almost the same specification as a stick type or low price Windows tablet. Wireless related support IEEE 802.11ac compliant wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.0. It is a pleasant point that it supports not only low-priced bands but also 5 GHz band wireless LANs.
The connection interface is aggregated on the back of the main unit, and stereo mini jack, HDMI, USB 3.0 × 2, microSD card slot are lined up vertically. Also equipped with a one million pixel web camera on the front of the main unit. It is supposed to be used for video chat, so that the angle of the camera can be adjusted upward by about 45 degrees.
Aggregate connection interface on back of main
Web camera part moves upward
Bundled items. Includes AC adapter, HDMI,
earphone jack extension cableunit
A big fan sound. Video chat is sufficiently practical:
Since the main body does not have a display, separate display is
necessary to use as a PC. Also, as a matter of course,
you will need a USB connected mouse and keyboard for
the main unit setup.
Although it is preferable to have both a mouse and a keyboard,
it is possible to set up the mouse by using a combination of
soft keyboard and keyboard by using Tab.
Once setup is completed, it is useless to usual PC. Since Bluetooth
is also equipped as mentioned above, Bluetooth mouse and keyboard
can also be used. However, the sound of the cooling fan is very large,
and clear sound and sound are transmitted to the ear even
from the position close to the keyboard.
It is a level that consciously considers fan sound even
in places like a noisy office, so when using it at home,
people who care about the sound seems to need
ingenuity such as installation place.
On the other hand, video chat using the web camera of the main body imagined that it was very difficult to use just by paying attention
to the fact that the manufacturer himself "built-in microphone
picks up driving sound of the cooling fan" If you actually
video chat, you do not care about fan sounds than you thought.
Of course, it is not that we can not hear any sound at all,
and the sound of the fans is also firmly on the chat, but since
the partner's voice reaches firmly and firmly than the fans,
we can talk properly with the partner without any discomfort.
In the first place video chat may be easier to pick up surrounding
sounds, so comfortable video chat is more convenient
than the phone exchange with the person you are out.
The benchmark test is measured with "winsat formal" command and
PCMark 8's Home (accelerated). winsat formal overall 4.1, PCMark
8 measurement result was 1,557, moderate result as Atom loaded
machine. Actual usability is also equivalent to Atom, there is
not much problem if it is writing comprehension and simple
browsing degree, but when you open multiple tabs and try to
edit material with many images, you feel the weight at once.
The built-in storage is eMMC 32GB, and the initial free capacity
is about 16.1GB. Since Office is also not installed, it is a bit strict
capacity to install and use these software.
Rather than using Chromebook, it would be better to use
it as browser + α. Measurement results of CrystalDiskMark
are also suitable for eMMC.
Storage: Equipped with a 6-hour drive battery.
In order to use it on the go requires ingenuity:
By using a battery built-in model, I measured the battery driving time
with BBench.
The setting was set for BBench's default of 10 seconds of key input
and web visit every minute, when we measured with the Bluetooth
keyboard connected, the battery was measured in 6 hours 17 minutes
It became empty. With a result that is nearly as good as 6 hours
nominal time, even if I do not say it all day, I got a little
If you are out, you can bring it out without worry of charging.
That said, the question is whether or not to use this machine in
the mobile environment.
Since this machine does not have a display as described above,
the display is indispensable for use on the go.
When it is used in a car, the car navigation system may be a model
compatible with HDMI input, but otherwise it is necessary
to bring in a display separately.
Rather, I felt that this product is suitable for use at a fixed location
such as home or office rather than mobile use. Because the main body is cylindrical type and it is vertically long design, it is possible
to minimize the storage area of tables etc as much as possible.
If you are using it as a TV PC, you can put it on the side or the back
side of the TV, and it is a great merit that you can set it up in the office etc. without taking up the desk area. Mobile battery also has sufficient merit if it is used in such a way that it is not necessary to turn power back on when reconnecting the PC used in the work desk to the TV.
It features Web camera and battery. Expecting a successor with higher specifications: Although the unique design attracts attention, there is no big difference from a stick type Windows terminal when considering only with specs. How much attractiveness to differentiation factors
such as built-in battery and web camera is attractive point of
this machine.
It's truly difficult to use in places without a display,
but it's a merit that stick type terminals do not have easy web chat
with built-in webcam.
As mentioned above, I hope to make use of the merit of the cylindrical shape that requires less footprint, and I hope to have a successor
model that improves specs by all means. For users who use
PCs in non-mobile environments such as home or office,
notebook PCs can be overspecified if there is an external display,
so I'd like to expect PCs with specs that can be used
without any display.
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