bertilak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:32 pmquantAndHold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:25 pmValue, primarily. I watched a YouTube video the opposite day the place a the man was attempting to give you the most cost effective doable setup to run drawing apps. He used a $169 mini, a $200 drawing pill, and a $30 mouse/keyboard combo. It labored fantastically. For that software, the drawing pill doubles because the monitor. You would possibly be capable to get a laptop computer for $350, however you’d nonetheless have to spend $200 on the drawing pill.
Most of them additionally include VESA mounts, so you’ll be able to mount them to the again of your present monitor, and create an all-in-one, if that’s what you need.
I am getting the image. Mini-PCs are good for constructing in to (or including on to) gadgets needing compute energy. If what you are attempting to do is construct an precise pc, then maybe an precise pc (laptop computer) is what it is best to get!
That was my unique thought, to get a laptop computer. My 10 yr previous Acer semi-mini-PC (which has been nice!) remains to be doing what I would like, but it surely might die at any time now and I do not wish to be caught up in an emergency. Plus it is simply time to improve.
So for some time I used to be taking a look at an HP 2in1 (16 or 17″) the place you’ll be able to detach the contact display and use it as a pill. Then I used to be going to purchase a dock and hook up my parts (desktop monitor, scanner, printer, audio system, and so forth) to this “screen-less laptop computer.” Which might value much more than a Mini-PC, be extra difficult, and take up extra space on my desk.
So once I found these Mini-PCs and noticed that it will meet my wants higher, and cheaper, with much better specs for the worth, plus I have already got the monitor (which can be changed some day), printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, and so forth., I dropped the laptop computer thought.
That type of explains why I wrote this in my OP: Had been contemplating a laptop computer, however then was simply going to purchase a dock and 99% of the time use it as a desktop, so sort of a waste.
So in my case it is a number of issues that say the Mini-PC is that they strategy to go (for me).
Type of jogs my memory of once I was a child we had a big picket TV console with a (primitive) inbuilt tuner and turntable, and my brother and I might crank it up with the Beatles and all the pieces else standard on the time.
However then within the 70s it appeared element sound techniques turned the way in which to go whenever you needed to hearken to music. You can get particular person parts, like big audio system!
For issues like Hendrix, Chicago, Santana, (edit: ooops, cannot miss Led Zepplin! 
) and so forth, and numerous nice Motown too. Was only a lot higher than an
all-in-one TV-sound-system combo.
So since I have already got all of the parts I would like, all I would like is the primary mind of all of it, a compact PC that I can mount behind my monitor on the wall, out of sight, however straightforward to entry. (Determine it would warmth up much less on the wall than again of monitor however possibly does not matter).
Anyway that is sort of my reasoning for the Mini PC.
However I am nonetheless on the fence with all this. As a result of, will I get 10 years out of certainly one of these Mini PCs? Like I’ve with this Acer. I positive do not wish to go through an emergency scenario in 3 or 4 years (possibly much less?) the place the factor blows up and I lose knowledge (even tho I again as much as a number of EX-HDs, nonetheless going to lose most up-to-date stuff, plus the trouble concerned and so forth).
So for now I am at the very least contemplating what is perhaps a greater model, Beelink?
I do not know. I simply found this stuff so have to look into it additional.
Good factor is there is not any rush. I have been operating software program checking my current 1 TB HD within the Acer the previous couple of years, and it says it is good. And all the pieces appears to be like cool on the within (actually, as in temps).
However no ensures proper. So after the cleansing (when my compressed air will get delivered) will see if it runs quieter, and probably cooler too. I am going to report again, particularly if I discover Jimmy Hoffa in there! .
In the meantime I search on for a Mini PC (I believe?)
“We maintain you alive to serve this ship. Row nicely…and reside.” Ben Hur…and The Taxman! hahaha (a George Harrison music)
