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Review on πŸ’¨ Compact and Powerful Fanless Mini PC with Windows 10 Pro, Intel Atom Quad Core x5-Z8350, 4GB DDR/64GB eMMC, HDMI and VGA Port, Dual-Band WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, USB 3.0 - Includes Mounting Bracket and Auto Power On by Ricardo Mercado

Revainrating 4 out of 5

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2. Update: I mainly use MS Office 365. It has already been downloaded but the application version. Hence all the glitches and slowness. Downloaded full versions of MS and works flawlessly and quickly. Not enough processing speed to keep up with edits and keep the connection open. I chose Chrome and Firefox for surfing the web as they are both secure and fast. Everything works fine, but there is very little disk space. This is the key. I had a portable drive and used the settings to install everything onto that drive, but it's a regular hard drive. I don't have a USB device big enough or fast enough to replace it, so I ordered a Samsung Portable SSD from Revain. It will be here on January 25th and I will update it after I have it installed and everything set up to use it. Regular hard drives go to sleep (bored?) and cause even more glitches. I hope the SSD wakes up and runs fast enough not to notice the lag. Even with a regular hard drive I would recommend this. This is the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Pro. And a complete computer. You can't even get Win 10 for less than $189 (prices have skyrocketed since they stopped supporting Win 7; that caused everything), so it's still a steal. I would love to port this to my 5 year old Dell which is still faster. I tried to create an ISO disk image but the bootmgr is in the flash memory of the mini pc and I didn't want to take it apart. Update: The amount of malware on it is incredible! It might work, but it's running so many programs I can't stop. It has 5 different processes for Skype and doesn't even have a camera. I can't even find Skype to uninstall it. It's incredibly slow. I don't know why anyone needs it. I've tried playing YouTube videos, which my Roku can do on my TV with no problem. It kept skipping even though the wifi speed was over 128kb/s. That's quite enough to watch a 4k movie without buffering. But the processor ran at over 113% to play videos on the website. Confused. Just received yesterday. I'll have to wait for the update to finish to rate it properly. Shouldn't take more than a day or two at this rate. Internet connection is NOT a problem. Downloads FAST. Then it should be installed.

Pros
  • Portable and Quiet
Cons
  • The cable is shorter than others