Milestone Husky NVR vs. i7 PC

[not_paranoid]

Hi all,

Does anyone have experience with Milestone's Husky NVRs? What is the benefit of running a Husky over making your own i7 PC? Just going from their specs page on their top-of-the-line Husky M50:

http://www.milestonesys.com/Husky-NVR/Milestone-Husky/Milestone-Husky-M50/

They talk about optimized hardware but I don't see anything other than standard PC parts. If they had a custom chip (eg FPGA decoding H.264 for display), that would be an advantage over a PC.

 

[not_paranoid]

I found this on Intel's site which pretty much says Husky just uses standard i3, i5, i7:

http://embedded.communities.intel.com/community/en/applications/blog/2014/05/22/roving-reporter-open-platform-dss-leader-reinvents-the-nvr-with-intel-core-i5i7-processors

 

[dr.]

Windows Embedded Standard 7
Maximum power consumption 80W, 24V DC input

Power Input 200W / 100~240V




Different OS and PSU. May be ULV chips especially with it being fanless. Anything special beyond that? Nope.