Barebones

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Barebone SN41G2 from Shuttle
Intel NUC6

As Barebone ( Engl. Bare bone "bare bones", also X-PC called) is called an incompletely built computer , which is usually only of housing (often with a case fan), power supply and main board ( motherboard , motherboard is) and the buyer or dealer with the other components required by him ( CPU , RAM , graphics card , drives etc., but also the operating system and software) can be equipped. In the past, CD-ROM or DVD and floppy disk drives were already installed in cases that were not designed according to industrial standards. The buyer can put together his desired configuration more easily with less effort in logistics and production.

Barebone systems are available for all PC variants, from normal office PCs to server variants in 19-inch format . The best-known barebone systems came from the Taiwanese company Shuttle in the 2000s . These devices are characterized by their particularly small size. Shuttle sells these devices both as barebone systems and as complete PCs. This leads to a confusion of terms when barebones are generally used as a synonym for particularly small PC systems , although suitable ITX to µATX mainboards and housings are also available and can be combined individually.

In the 2010s, products are increasingly called barebones in which only RAM and mass storage are added, e.g. B. the extensive product series NUC from Intel and ZBOX from Zotac .

Barebones are also very suitable for build-to-order production, since the options for the customer are more manageable and the production times at the manufacturer are shorter. Various barebone configurators can be found on the Internet with which you can easily assemble a complete PC on a barebone basis.

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  • Franz-Josef Lintermann, Udo Schaefer, Walter Schulte-Göcking, Klaas Gettner: Simple IT systems. Textbook / specialist book . 5th edition. Bildungsverlag EINS, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8237-1140-7 , p. 10 (1st corrected reprint).

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