VORKE V1 Plus Intel Apollo Lake J3455 4G RAM 64GB SSD AC WIFI Gig LAN Bt4.0 HDMI & VGA USB3.0 - Black

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Intel Apollo Lake J3455

J3455 , a quad-core processor, operates between 1.5and 2.3 GHz. Under the hood, it packs 2 MB of L2 cache, TDP of 10W and a Intel HD Graphics 500 GPU.

DDR3 4GB RAM, 64GB SSD, Both Extendable
VORKE V1 Plus brags a 4GB DDR3 RAM and 64GB of SSD storage, advantageous in performance, security and reliability. Ascribing to the eMMC memory, it delivers a richer end-user experience.
SDD unlimited, HDD 1TB.

Gigabit LAN
Gigabit LAN provides a data rate of 1 billion bits per second.

Applications
Office Work: Office, skype, yahoo, outlook and all other office requirement support and runs perfectly.
Design Work: Photoshop, CoreIDRAW, Dreamweaver, IIIustrator, Flash, Indesign and others.
Game Playing: Support most of the online games and PC games, like Warcraft, Counter-Strike (CS), support 3D games.
Entertainment: Support 4k video play, XBMC and others.

eneral	Brand: Vorke Model: V1 Plus Quantity: 1 Piece Color: Black
Hardware & OS	Operating System: Windows10 home 64-bit, Supports WIN8.1/ubuntu15.10&16.04 Chrome OS CPU: Intel® Apollo Lake J3455(1.5-2.3Ghz) GPU: Intel® HD Graphics 500 RAM: LPDDR3 4GB (1600MHz) ROM: 64GB mSATA SSD(Endless extension for SSD, 1TB extension for HDD, Support 2.5" SATA3 SSD) Sound Codec Chip: Realtek ALC269
Communication	Wifi Connectivity: Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165,802.11ac,2.4G/5G Ethernet: Gigabit LAN Bluetooth: 4.2 Card Reader: Micro SD card slot(Realtek RTS5170)
Media	Video Supported: 3GP,AVI,H.264,MP4 Audio Supported: AAC,ACC,MP3,OGG,WAV Picture Supported: BMP,GIF,JPEG,JPG,PNG Office Format: Excel,PPT,Word E-book Format: PDF,TXT
Interface	HDMI Port: Standard HDMI Male 2.0a,Support 4k@60Hz Wake On LAN: Yes Other Interfaces USB2.0 x 2 USB3.0 x 2 Headphone out&Mic-in x 1 VGA x 1 LAN 10M/100M/1000M x 1 TYPEA HDMI x 1 Power Button x 1 DC-IN x 1
Power	Power: 12V//3A Skype: Supported Youtube: Supported Speaker: Supported MIC: Supported
Dimensions&Weight	Dimensions: 153.4*153.4*38mm/ 6.039*6.039*1.496inches Weight: 390g/ 13.75oz
Package Contents	1 x MINI PC 1 x Power adapter (A right AC Adapter will be sent as your shipping country) 1 x Charging cable 1 x User manual

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VORKE V1 Plus Intel Apollo Lake J3455 4G RAM 64GB SSD AC WIFI Gig LAN Bt4.0 HDMI & VGA USB3.0

Today we got to have a look at the New Vorke V1 Plus, with its Improved CPU, rest is must the same as previous model as far as build goes.
The top cover cover of the Vorke V1 Plus is a Matt finish previous V1 was a Black gloss, the rest looks good as previous model.

CPU: Intel® Apollo Lake J3455(1.5-2.3Ghz)
GPU: Intel® HD Graphics 500
RAM: LPDDR3 4GB (1600MHz)
ROM: 64GB mSATA SSD(Endless extension for SSD, 1TB extension for HDD, Support 2.5" SATA3 SSD)
Sound Codec Chip: Realtek ALC269
Wifi Connectivity: Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165,802.11ac,2.4G/5G
Ethernet: Gigabit LAN
Bluetooth: 4.2
Card Reader: Micro SD card slot(Realtek RTS5170)

Whats in the Box and an AU Power Cable Nice to see

Ports and more ports and Vents Good to see.

Base Plate off to Install SSD or HDD

Look Inside all the good bits, can update Msata to a larger size, just see the 2 WiFi Tape Antenna top left and right


Not doing a full tear down this one much the same as previous Vorke VI excluding CPU and Ram that cannot be updated in this unit 4GB is it.

Thanks Geekbuying and DHL for the usual Quick turn around..
Now for the set up....More to come.

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After putting Vorke V1 plus back together power up and see what we have
After a Minute we get greeted with the first of the Windows setup screens

Basic input and away it goes with a restart.
Then we get to this screen

Customise settings then you can adjust what you like
We want to know all about you and tell the world settings.
About three of these screens I select no for the lot...tell em nothing, takem no-ware

So after a bit more loading and carry on and other restart, may ask also to set up Internet skip that for now and do it later.
We finally get to Windows, a few minutes really as the Vorke V1 Plus has bee set up properly should be easy to get windows up and running and yes a full windows Home Version.
Version 1511 at the time of boot so a little updating to do.

Bit of customising setting date time other bits, location, install a few programs,

Then onto the first update.....Just to get windows in the right frame of mind, update Defender and other software...this part took about 30 minutes and all went smooth.

All updated to a point.

Then we go for the second update to get the Creators Update
Download a small app called Update Assistant it goes away and does it's thing in the background and we
hopefully end up with windows to the latest and greatest.

20 or so minutes later all is downloaded and yep another series of restarts...should get us to the latest and greatest
So far so good, Vorke V1 plus moving along well no major problems at all, not to much noise form fan and unit is not overly warm.
So that is pretty much the start up nice and easy no problems fully activated, and should be a happy little Vorke V1 plus soon.

Geekbuying


Bench test and info to come next

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Vorke V1 plus is going well no problems, Creators update in and all smooth,
fan ok no excess noise when pushed keeps it cool very well, and no problems with running just 4GB ram and 64GB mSata.
After doing Update i was able to recover 20GB of old windows/install files currently using 16gb of mSata.
Great Unit for Office or Home, Media server, Linux Box, Not a power house box but can do most.

Quick Look at Major system Hardware and what's going on inside.

Antutu Benchmak

Diskmark Speeds

Ethernet connection good

Stress test moved a little and that was it...Cool down also quick

Passmark scores good for what this box is

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Available also as an option and not included pity
Vesa mount for easy mount to TV.

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Bit of Look around the Cmos and what it has...one
So much to see and do, one could easily make a mess of it.

And A bit of a capture while live streaming HD Video
Very smooth video local bit jerky with the capture, but you get the idea.

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VORKE V1 Plus Intel Apollo Lake J3455 4G RAM 64GB SSD AC WIFI Gig LAN Bt4.0 HDMI & VGA USB3.0

Today a bit of a fiddle with Linux on the V1 PLUS
Using Rufus to create bootable USB stick.....

Into cmos and selected Boot USB, Done
After a few seconds Install or run Menu I ran form USB stick....easy

All working easy and well Sound, Ethernet, WiFi and BT pretty easy not get Mint running on the Vorke V1 PLUS

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[romanatwud]

Looks like a great PC (tower) alternative and it's a lot smaller.

[bluesmanuk]

This box states that it has HDMI 2.0, which should mean 4k@60hz.

Can you confirm that this is the case?

[trebor]

Yes

[bluesmanuk]

Thanks.

Finally good to see an Intel box with pretty much all the bases covered.

[bluesmanuk]

What do the sound capabilities say about HD audio support?

It seems as though there are different board revisions for the J3455, one of which doesn't seem to support DTS HD, TrueHD etc, just the usual Dolby/DTS.
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You have answered your own question I feel.
If I find the time I may look further...