Topic: Hey, you ever play around with any of those mini PCs?
boof started this discussion 1 year ago #122,461
After watching some videos, here's my thoughts: consider the ports it has, having external power brick, RAM soldered in or not, fan noise. You see, some of these fuckers can get loud. If you like to open the thing to fiddle with replacing or adding parts, having soldered-in RAM is something you'd like to know about. The power brick could be in the case, or outside. And the ports -- does the fucker have the ports you want. Something I could see doing is having two SSDs with different operating systems on each. One model seemed almost as good as can be expected, but has WIFI that is not the newest and kind of sucked for distance, so if that feature was important to you, expect to replace the WIFI card in there. Ahh, that was, ahhh, that was the company with a bee stinger logo, model 8. Model 9 has silly ass built in microphone and basic speakers that detract from the machine, I think.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 hours later[^] [v] #1,336,608
@OPenis
I only use maxi PCs. Thanks.
I only use maxi PCs. Thanks.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,336,609
I like the idea of a mini pc but I'd have to make my own and it's pretty limiting, it would be useful as a casual TV game console type thing for playing with a paddle
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,336,610
I got an off brand unit and it's fine for internet. Reminds me I need to reboot though, what is it with Ubuntu and memory leaks? Only have a few browser tabs open and 10/12 GBs of memory are taken. Sloppy sloppy. I was using an M.2 2242 drive to boot and a 1TB SSD 2.5" for storage at one point, now I just use it for the browser machine (fan doesn't spool up so not annoying!).
I've used Celeron/Atom embedded boards in standard cases though and quite liked them. If I could do this one over I would have just bought an N100 embedded board or something instead. I still have a J3455 embedded board but DD3 memory is kinda crusty. That one replaced a D510 Atom board but I think that one was DDR2. I get good miles outta these things.