Are these Mini-PCs any good? When you have one, any recommendation on which to get? - Web page 2

bertilak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:32 pm

quantAndHold wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:25 pm

bertilak wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 1:01 pm
That leaves me with my query: In what circumstance/utility is a mini-PC a more sensible choice than a laptop computer? I supplied up the opportunity of value.

Price, primarily. I watched a YouTube video the opposite day the place a the man was attempting to give you 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 fantastically. For that utility, the drawing pill doubles because the monitor. You may have the ability 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 possibly can 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) units needing compute energy. If what you are attempting to do is construct an precise pc, then maybe an precise pc (laptop computer) is what you need to get!

That was my unique thought, to get a laptop computer. My 10 yr previous Acer semi-mini-PC (which has been nice!) continues to be doing what I would like, however 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 possibly can detach the contact display screen 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 on) to this “screen-less laptop computer.” Which might value much more than a Mini-PC, be extra sophisticated, and take up more room on my desk.

So once I discovered these Mini-PCs and noticed that it will meet my wants higher, and cheaper, with much better specs for the value, plus I have already got the monitor (which will probably be changed some day), printer, scanner, mouse, keyboard, and so on., I dropped the laptop computer thought.

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 form 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).

Type 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’d crank it up with the Beatles and all the things else well-liked on the time.

However then within the 70s it appeared part sound programs turned the best way to go while you wished to take heed to music. You might get particular person parts, like large audio system!

For issues like Hendrix, Chicago, Santana, (edit: ooops, cannot miss Led Zepplin! ) and so on, and a number 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 parts 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 form 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 every of these Mini PCs? Like I’ve with this Acer. I certain do not need to go via an emergency state of affairs 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 trouble concerned and so on).

So for now I am no less than contemplating what may 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 is no rush. I have been working 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 things 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 presumably cooler too. I will report again, particularly if I discover Jimmy Hoffa in there! .

In the meantime I search on for a Mini PC (I believe?)