Excited to plug in, then frustrated as most options in Settings were disabled. Vital items like Update, Virus settings and more. Permissions incorrect and disallowed access or running.

Great box for the money! Easy to upgrade ram (to 32g) and add SSD, and I even upgraded the network adapter to an Intel AX210 with wifi 6e and Bluetooth 5.3 it blazes!

I have decided to buy a mini PC to replace my aging optiplex in the office and I am glad I did so. Now I have way more desk area. This mini PC is almost equivalent to a $700 laptop as it has an 11th generation i5 mobile processor with 4 cores and 8 threads. The ram is soldered which usually isnt my cup of tea however the included Ram is LPDDR4 with high frequency and its 8 chips of 2Gb each giving me 4 channel which is even better than some towers. (When you start using the mini PC you will notice that the frequency is limited to 2667MHz that can be adjusted in the Bios as I showed in the video). Other than that, the SSD and Wi-Fi are fully upgradable (See the second part of the video) and you can easily install 2 NVME SSD and one SATA SSD for a total of 3. The Wi-Fi card can be upgraded to WiFi 6e. The IO of the PC is pretty decent and I like the inclusion of the USB-C.

Great speed and takes up practically no room

I’ve been using this for a couple of months now and am totally impressed with it. I’ve needed a small form factor computer to run my weather station and seismograph for quite a while now. When this caught my eye, I was skeptical at first but since receiving the mini-PC and having spent some time with it, I am very surprised. It easily handled everything I’ve thrown at it. I’m not a huge gamer but I do have a couple of hundred games on Steam (Ok, maybe I am a bit of a gamer) and it has performed flawlessly with everyone I tried. I can’t imagine much, beyond extreme gaming, or some other hardware-stressing jobs that this mini-PC couldn’t handle.

This little suckers got some speed to it. I haven’t even upgraded the ram yet. But it also doesn’t have any real programs or anything on it yet but quick set up. Tiny form factor. Comes with the standard hdmi and back of tv mount. I really dont care for I’m guessing the windows 11 pro home or whatever it’s call. It’s had the windows icons but not the windows feel to it. I feel like it’s a dumbed down simplified version of windows. I don’t know if the software is particularly to this device or that’s windows 11 home all together this is my first time with it. But as far as the device goes crazy fast super responsive decent gaming. Obviously an emulator beast but what isn’t these days. After programs and games get install I put it to the paces at 4k and see what’s up. I have a true motion 240hz and this thing only tops out at 60hz@1080. I’ll run the 4k tomorrow and update my review

I was surprised at how fast the Mini PC was. Setup only takes 10 minutes. It comes with a 2 HDMI ports so I can connect my 2 screens and enough USB slots to plugin other devices.