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Review on πŸ”’ Enhanced Security Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Protectli Vault 6 Port, Intel Dual Core i3, AES-NI, Barebone by Vincent Burton

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Don't touch Firmware

Revain wants me to mention "Thickness", "Warmth" and "Wi-Fi signal", although they are completely irrelevant to the test. It's a warm rectangle and I'm not using WiFi. I ran into firmware (video resolution) issues and tried switching to coreboot. I flashed her image and it's like locking the device - no matter what I do, there's no console, no video. It's not clear what went wrong and I was certainly stupid trying to flash the firmware without thousands of dollars worth of jtag hardware, but they announce the device as running coreboot and on ROM provides. Needless to say I am dissatisfied with the experience. The hardware is decent. The software is underdeveloped; The included BIOS is extremely limited and doesn't seem to touch the coreboot ROM at all, and it's not clear where to find the manual for the firmware that the hardware ships with.

Pros
  • Confident
Cons
  • Approximately