The “Minions” are micro PCs which we use for encoding of the master release at the events.

At the moment we got for of these little helpers.

They feature a Desktop Core i7 CPU on a very very small form factor.

On the downside they get very loud so you want to place them somewhere outside the lecture hall.

We run debian and ffmpeg on them.

Specs

Features Intel® 4th generation Core™ processors

Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics 5200

Supports 2.5” thickness 7.0/9.5mm Hard Drives (1 x 6Gbps SATA3)

Ultra compact PC design - 0.79L (62 x 111.4 x 114.4 mm)

1 x mSATA SSD Slot

2 x SO-DIMM DDR3L Slots (1333 / 1600 MHz)

IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi / Bluetooth 4.0 Mini-PCIe card

HDMI plus Mini DisplayPort Outputs (supports dual displays)

4K resolution output (4096 x 2304 via HDMI)

4 x USB 3.0

Gigabit LAN

Headphone jack with S/PDIF

VESA mounting bracket (75 x 75mm + 100 x 100mm)