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For someone who just wants to surf and check email on occasion or even every day, these kinds of computers are ideal. I turned an elderly couple's TV into a home computer by adding a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. A couple of lessons, and now they can email their grandkids and shop online. They liked it!

I'm using a Trigkey with a Ryzen 7 5800H and 32GB for high end audio editing. It's rock solid and eats everything I throw at it. Save yourselves a fortune and get one.

I bought one of these small footprint computers but I went more high end and I love it. I am not the normal 75 year old, I use my machine daily and I wanted more speed for business applications. First I had all of the peripherals that were needed and I went with an Intel i7 processor and 32 gig of memory with a 1.5 TB of SSD storage. I do program my own applications and run some larger commercial applications on it. I couldn’t beat the price and think it was a great buy. I believe that this type of machine can meet the demands of many individuals. Great informational review.

I have a beefy gaming PC and have not just played many high end games on it of late. I found I was simply surfing the web, reading web comics, and watching YouTube mostly. You know, the chill life. I also love older or more retro like PC titles too, which are really overkill for my gaming PC. Beyond those issues, it was also really heating up my small office for no reason (as I was not pushing the system) and using a lot of watts as well. So I bought a SER5 (5560u) on sale and hooked up my 2 monitors and a USB switch so I can switch my USB devices back to my gaming PC easily if I really want to. It's been great as it's super quiet and only 25w vs over 300+ watts on my other system at times. It's been a big difference in heat and electricity use for this small office space I have. I'm also not sacrificing much in performance with the NVME and 6 cores and 12 threads for normal use. I can even play some chill more retro like games i.e. Vampire Survivors with no problem. Will I still use my gaming PC sometimes for newer/more demanding titles? Yeah, sure I will. But when I don't need it, I don't need it.

I saw a video like this in August, so I bought a MoreFine minipc for $159 to give it a try. It is WONDERFUL. I was not expecting much, so I went for the cheapest I could find. This is perfect, I love how small it is, I like that I can add to the internal storage and memory. The Minipc came with 16gb ram and 512g of storage, expandable to 32g ram and 4TB of storage. It is able to do everything I want. Now I have 20 HDDs usb'd to it with no problem. I will be adding to the memory and storage as I go by. Running 2160p videos with no problems. I will be buy another couple of these for different jobs later. It is working perfectly with all those drives attached. I am actually only using the one of the rear usb 3.2 ports. Never heard of MoreFine But this is a good little computer and has a 3yr warranty. I think my 2 big old desktop will now be storage for music and movies. I am totally sold on this computer.

Some people assume it's a niche interest, which is fair. But at this point in time, it really makes sense to get one of these on sale for $300 instead of building your own rig with older parts. It costs more to build something that performs the same now. Best you can do is an old microtower with an RX 580. Anything else performs worse and suffers from old backends

I have three of the Minisforum UM690, two on DIY arcade racing setups (mostly for emulating Initial D and Mario Kart GP) and one in my RV. It is absolutely perfect for the RV for sure. I have it connected to a 32" Samsung Q60a (4K QLED) and we play family party games like Overcooked 2 and others while glamping or the kids play together while traveling, it only uses about 60 watts max which means we can pretty much play it for days without any issue. I love them!

I got my Beelink SER6 Pro recently and it cost me 50% less than an Apple Mac Mini M2 with similar specs. So far, I'm very pleased with it's performance and quietness.

One thing to be aware of is the 5000 series apus don't support AV1 decoding which is becoming very common now, a lot of youtube uses AV1 for instance.

I have a Minisforum mini PC and it's so good. It cost me £400. I didn't want a cheaper Celeron CPU because what I am using it for is quite CPU intensive, and the 11th gen i5 with 16gb I was using struggled at times, so I went for a more powerful system that will hopefully be good for years. It has Windows 11, a 12th gen i7, 32gb RAM and 2x 1TB SSD's, one NVMe and one SATA I added myself. It runs like a dream, I thought my old i5 machine was good but this is on another level. It boots up in about 5 seconds from a hard shutdown. Then there is the space it saves, it's on a shelf out of the way, and there's no huge tower in the way that makes a lot of noise any more. You can even mount it on the back of a monitor so it's out of sight. The only thing it's missing is an SD card slot, but that's easily remedied with a USB hub.

I discovered Intel NUC's about 3 years ago with the NUC 8 i5. Needed a good ,cheap 4k movie and media streamer. The goal was under $500 complete. Small foot print and stupid powerful for daily surfing and streaming. It's not a pro gamer machine but it is a powerful audio and video machine.

My odyssey mini computer integrates well into my RV system. With an adult size wireless keyboard and trackball, I can do everything I need. With a small 12 volt DC-DC inverter/charger, I don't have to deal with shore power or inefficient AC inverters. And when I eventually switch to Zorin OS, I will be able to do more for less power.

What people need most is a device that can stream videos, web browsing, do some light weight editing, office stuffs, play some popular games with decent frame rates without breaking their wallet. Laptop is overpriced for those needs and standard pc is overkill (also draw too much power)

I find this stuff fascinating. The 2010s were about netbooks, I bought a few and they are fun little writing and basic browsing machines. I just picked up a basic mini fanless system and it's working fine. I'm gonna get a more serious machine but wanted to test the waters with a little 64 GB, 4 GB RAM I3 thing. It'll work for basic DAW and plugin work no problem.. Laptops need a battery and those don't do great for a machine that is gonna spend most of its life inn a mixing desk or on a table somewhere crunching numbers. This mini stuff is way more my thing and doesn't have a battery that'll puff up and degrade over a few years. A cool potential plan I have later is to wire up a battery bank and have the option of running off mains power or portable cells.

I just purchased a GEEKOM i9 13th Gen to replace my old all in one desktop, and I love it. I will never go back to a traditional desktop computer again. This little pc is super powerful and fast and easy to upgrade. Just added a rotating 144hz monitor wireless keyboard and mouse, and that's it.

I am looking to get one of those in a couple of years when windows 10 ages out. My reason is that they are a cheap way to switch to a secure version of Windows that will be supported. At the same time, they are relatively inexpensive and allow me to do what I need to do on the web and at the same time keep my old more powerful Windows 10 PC offline and safe. It is a cheap and safe alternative to go full bore buying my more expensive intense use PC. So, my current Gen 7 core PC will keep chugging along offline, while the mini will serve as an internet tool. Upgrade without killing the budget or giving up functionality.

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I'm very tempted to buy one and an extra before the price gets jacked up since they're getting so popular. I've been getting into PC gaming more and more lately but I only have a basic laptop. I have so much trouble downloading bigger games like Genshin for example. Mini pc's might have just opened a whole new world for me.

i'm glad people are starting to see the vision with mini PCs cuz i've had a beelink SER4 since august 2022, and it's been my main PC ever since

First time coming across your channel. Thanks for putting this out. This particular title was of interest to me because it seems like one of these would be perfect for running Adobe Lightroom. Which product would you recommend for that, and IF I could, I would also prefer to be able to hook up two monitors