 Welcome to my unboxing of the Sapphire Edge HD3 or cubed however you want to interpret that mini PC. So Sapphire is no stranger to computer technologies especially ones built by AMD. They've been doing graphics cards for AMD going back as far as like dinosaurs and they've also got some AMD motherboards but as far as all in one PCs go this is by far the most impressive product that I think they have yet released. Although I haven't seen one in person yet. I have seen the marketing materials. This is why I'm like skipping right to the like the part where the box opens and I take the thing out because I want to check this thing out in person before I say almost anything about it. So inside we find some packing materials. Look at that foam. They're pretty like serious business about foaming it up in here making sure that your PC arrives in one piece because and this is a good foresight on their part because this is one of Sapphire's first things that they're shipping with a hard drive inside right. So they're all like yeah normally video cards no big deal it gets shaken around a little bit what's going to get damaged. Well a hard drive can so they've got a nice foam layer going on on all sides of this thing. It feels very adequately protected in my personal opinion. Okay there's your driver disk don't bother with that download the latest off the Sapphire website quick installation guide. So this covers quickly installing things to other things user manual. So it's only six pages it's got to be pretty straightforward here got some specs got some FCC things going on. Okay cool got like a Sapphire product registration form got a power cord. Hey look at this. We've got a an HDMI cable. It looks like it's even gold plated. That's handy because I needed an HDMI cable. Obviously the HDMI cable is not the point of the product but you know it's in here I might as well use it right. There you go. Gold plated HDMI action going on in there. Cool. Looks like it's about a meter. Alright we got a stand with a little screw on the bottom. Rubberized on the bottom so it's not going to go anywhere. Cool cool. Oh check this out. We also have an HDMI to DVI adapter that is single link DVI guys because HDMI is pin to pin compatible with single link DVI so you're not going to be going above 1920 by 1200 at 60 Hertz. Just remember that I mean there's probably not many scenarios where you would be doing that with this anyhow but there you are. Okay so you got your power cord you got everywhere different power cord and finally let's get to it. Here it is. I'm very excited about this don't laugh at me. I'm talking to slick not the audience. So there it is. This is the Edge HD3. Here's our power button. Here's our hard drive activity LED. Here on the front we have two USB 3.0 ports. There you go. Cover that up. It's got like a soft touch finish. I realized like looking at it that it probably looks kind of just like dusty but when I go like this you can see it comes very very clean so it has a good way of like masking that so once you wipe it down once then it should be pretty much good to go so that's kind of nice. I personally love these like rubberized grippy grippy feels. On the bottom here we can see that looks like your hard drive right there next to the ventilation holes. There's the screw on the bottom for attaching it to the stand if you should see fit and on the back we find our I.O. so we have VGA just in case you still need it. HDMI, two USB 2.0 ports, gigabit ethernet, power as well as headphones and microphone ports. So what makes this guy special is the real question here. I'm just going to go ahead and attach it to a little stand. A few things would be the answer here. Number one is the fact that it uses AMD's E450 APU. So an APU if you guys do or don't recall I'm going to say it anyway. An APU is a combination CPU and graphics processing unit. So what it means is you have DirectX 11 graphics power in this unit. It is capable of running DirectX 11 titles. I wouldn't expect to be running them on the highest details or the most demanding DirectX 11 titles but it can run DirectX 11 features. So there you go. So stuff like Dirt 3, yes it will run off of this slimline PC which is very very cool. It's got 4 gigs of memory. The graphics card is equivalent to what would be called a Radeon 6320. Yes just double check. I have a hard time remembering which HD graphics core goes with which APU sometimes. So inside here also for the CPU component of the APU is a 1.6 GHz dual core. I mean look at this form factor it's ridiculous. Yeah I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do the iPhone size comparison. For those of you who think that I'm showing off that I have an iPhone, I mean come on get real. It's an iPhone 4. That's not the point. The point is everyone knows how big an iPhone is so if I hold something up to an iPhone everyone knows how big it is. So there you go. That's the thickness comparison against the iPhone and here is the size comparison against the iPhone. So this thing is just tiny considering the fact that it contains a full PC inside. So it's got oh you know what I missed something. I missed it because I didn't actually see it. Hold on a second guys. We found it. Cleverly disguised is the Kensington compatible locking slot. You see it looks just like a ventilation hole except slightly larger. Very convenient because if you're looking for a place whether you know you're in an airport or a coffee shop you need like a checkout terminal PC whatever else if you're looking for a low power PC but you don't want someone to run off with it because it doesn't weigh much and it you know is very very small you can easily like you know I'm assuming I had a pocket here you know hide it in a coat pocket or something like that you can easily run off with it if it isn't locked down. Speaking of low power, Sapphire claims less than 30 watts under load for the whole PC. Holy crap. So stay tuned on my NCIXCOM channel where we're actually going to put all of their claims to the test but that sounds very impressive especially because under a typical usage scenario you wouldn't come even close to that load power consumption because you're not even going to be loading the graphics core that's built into the APU. One other thing about this particular unit is that it does not come with an operating system or rather I should say it doesn't come with a Windows operating system it comes with free DOS or something like that so you're going to have to source your own Windows operating system you know you can buy OEM copies online you don't have to buy the retail copies which are more expensive in like a big box store but just grab an OEM copy for around a hundred bucks and you should be good to go or if you already have a retail Windows license then you can go ahead and reuse it on this machine as long as you're not still using it on the machine that you already have. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Edge HD3 or CUBE whichever you prefer to interpret it as. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews and other computer videos.