Are these Mini-PCs any good? You probably 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 potential of price.

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 superbly. For that utility, 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 possibly can 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) 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 it is best to get!

That was my authentic concept, 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, nevertheless it might 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 an HP 2in1 (16 or 17″) the place you possibly can 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 price 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 shall 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 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 every part else well-liked 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 could possibly 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 primary mind of all of it, a compact PC that I can mount behind my monitor on the wall, out of sight, however simple to entry. (Determine it’d warmth up much less on the wall than again of monitor however perhaps 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 one in every of these Mini PCs? Like I’ve with this Acer. I positive do not need to go through 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 effort concerned and many others).

So for now I am not less than contemplating what could be a greater model, Beelink?
I do not know. I simply found these items 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 every part 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 feel?)