Hi there
I just bought another minipc - these things are brilliant for what they are -- this one with an Amazon discount of €85 (That's why it's worth being a member of Amazon Prime -- not bothered about Prime video or music but FREE deliveries and often great coupons -- far better than the usual "Black Friday junk") cost was only €162 - with W11 PRO already included and 3.2 GHZ for the CPU - apart from the fact that the full retail cost of W11 pro is around the same value these boxes - with the 12th gen of Intel processor, 3X USB3, 2 or 3 4K UHD HDMI ports, fast Wifi, 2 LAN slots and fast DDR 4 RAM plus internal NVME M2 SSD type and small space to insert a classical 2.5 inch SSD drive if you want more internal storage - how can one complain. These things make brilliant file servers, NAS boxes (easy to install Linux on them BTW), Virtual Machine box, or whatever.
I'd even suggest if you have to buy a retail version of W11 PRO why not get one of these boxes -- extract the W11 proi and then flog the box to one of your mates.
I rarely use a laptop any more -- big clunky and heavy. I don't even use the HDMI cables any nore as I use now (also rarely mentioned - but can be had cheaply) HDMI Tx and Rx device pair - so no thick HDMI cables around and certainly no perceptable lag with the video.
OK you need to have your own keyboard, mouse and monitor - but I'd imagine most do anyway.
Really recommendable -- at least for typical workloads -- extreme gaming mighyt neet more "poke" thougħ. So probably for those people a "classical" gaming desktop or other specialized laptop might still be the order of the day.
Cheers
jimbo
I just bought another minipc - these things are brilliant for what they are -- this one with an Amazon discount of €85 (That's why it's worth being a member of Amazon Prime -- not bothered about Prime video or music but FREE deliveries and often great coupons -- far better than the usual "Black Friday junk") cost was only €162 - with W11 PRO already included and 3.2 GHZ for the CPU - apart from the fact that the full retail cost of W11 pro is around the same value these boxes - with the 12th gen of Intel processor, 3X USB3, 2 or 3 4K UHD HDMI ports, fast Wifi, 2 LAN slots and fast DDR 4 RAM plus internal NVME M2 SSD type and small space to insert a classical 2.5 inch SSD drive if you want more internal storage - how can one complain. These things make brilliant file servers, NAS boxes (easy to install Linux on them BTW), Virtual Machine box, or whatever.
I'd even suggest if you have to buy a retail version of W11 PRO why not get one of these boxes -- extract the W11 proi and then flog the box to one of your mates.
I rarely use a laptop any more -- big clunky and heavy. I don't even use the HDMI cables any nore as I use now (also rarely mentioned - but can be had cheaply) HDMI Tx and Rx device pair - so no thick HDMI cables around and certainly no perceptable lag with the video.
OK you need to have your own keyboard, mouse and monitor - but I'd imagine most do anyway.
Really recommendable -- at least for typical workloads -- extreme gaming mighyt neet more "poke" thougħ. So probably for those people a "classical" gaming desktop or other specialized laptop might still be the order of the day.
Cheers
jimbo
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows XP,7,10,11 Linux Arch Linux
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- CPU
- 2 X Intel i7