its a double edged sword

what is your opinion on "mini PCs"

indeed, i'm glad my phone only has ai/beauty stuff on the selfie cam.

I am ordering a "Mini PC" from chinkland

Will report back on it

@Frederica Bernkastel i like them. i have a beelink x45 arriving in a few days.

the factory has just finalized the production planning and they will start making 100, 300, units a week up until 1000 units so I will have it shipped by Ddecember I hope.

it seems good but i've talked about it with a friend and he says it might be better to make your own PC out of cheap parts as a torrent machine

Its a small mini PC with 4GB 2400MHz DDR4 soldered on the board, some eMMC, M.2 SSD slot and Intel Celeron N4100.

Probably better, I just got this thing since it was interesting.

yes it is kinda interesting

for the record I paid like 150 USD for this

also pretty cheap

also depends, this one uses much less electricity than your old shit.

For torrent you can just laugh off everything

I use a Orange Pi PC for torrenting, with 5 TB attached

It ran two years

still running fine, on mixza sd card for OS

It handles 100Mbps transfers just fine

You dont even have to worry, literally 1 GB RAM and weak chink ARM Allwinner CPU

if i made a similar spec intel nuc, it would cost me €98/$116 usd more. not factoring in win 10 cost which my pc ships with.

seems like a pretty nice setup

Well I am upgrading now. THe reason for this is simple thoo. The HDD makes noise

So I decided a cheap shit device with the HDD offsite from where I sleep is a good idea, while my main stuff can stay in my bedroom since SSD.

but tbh this is the first time I am buying chink mini PC server

I heard the BIOS has no documentation so far and its hard to get Linux running

oh boy this gonna be F U N

oh boy

so beware

But it will run, just its chink BIOS

mine has an apollo lake j4005, 6gb ram, 128gb ssd and a 2.5" disk slot if needed. $226 usd.

there is a difference between American Megatrends and chink BIOS with a million options

if it has documentation it will probably be in chink

nah they have mostly English customers

they are just using up so much time actually making the product since they fucked up

they blew up the delivery schedule by far as they didnt realize how advanced their PC became

already made one, which was much simpler, you see.

sounds nice @Absolute Kubica I cant get so cheap stuff.

😬 it would be cheaper if i had it shipped from china but i didn't want to wait 3 weeks.

used chink shit is absolute worst though

I remember anon getting a mobo from chinkland that had CORRODED == RUST on it