bertilak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:32 pmquantAndHold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:25 pmPrice, primarily. I watched a YouTube video the opposite day the place a the man was attempting to provide you with the most affordable doable setup to run drawing apps. He used a $169 mini, a $200 drawing pill, and a $30 mouse/keyboard combo. It labored superbly. 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 current 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 laptop, then maybe an precise laptop (laptop computer) is what it is best to get!
That was my authentic concept, to get a laptop computer. My 10 yr outdated Acer semi-mini-PC (which has been nice!) continues to be doing what I would like, nevertheless it may die at any time now and I do not need 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 elements (desktop monitor, scanner, printer, audio system, and many others) 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 came across these Mini-PCs and noticed that this may meet my wants higher, and cheaper, with much better specs for the value, plus I have already got the monitor (which will likely be changed some day), printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, and many others., I dropped the laptop computer concept.
That kind 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 type of a waste.
So in my case it is a number of issues that say the Mini-PC is that they solution to go (for me).
Form of jogs my memory of once I was a child we had a big wood TV console with a (primitive) in-built tuner and turntable, and my brother and I might crank it up with the Beatles and all the pieces else common on the time.
However then within the 70s it appeared element sound methods grew to become the way in which to go while you needed to hearken to music. You might get particular person elements, like big audio system!
For issues like Hendrix, Chicago, Santana, (edit: ooops, cannot miss Led Zepplin! 
) and many others, and loads of 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 elements I would like, all I would like is the principle 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’d warmth up much less on the wall than again of monitor however perhaps does not matter).
Anyway that is type 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 one in all these Mini PCs? Like I’ve with this Acer. I positive do not need to go through an emergency scenario in 3 or 4 years (perhaps 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 effort concerned and many others).
So for now I am no less than contemplating what is likely to be a greater model, Beelink?
I do not know. I simply found this stuff so have to look into it additional.
Good factor is there isn’t any rush. I have been operating software program checking my current 1 TB HD within the Acer the previous few years, and it says it is good. And all the pieces seems to be 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 presumably 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 feel?)
“We maintain you alive to serve this ship. Row effectively…and stay.” Ben Hur…and The Taxman! hahaha (a George Harrison music)
