I recently purchased a “Mini PC” for $130.00 it has 8 Gigs of Ram, 124 gig M2 nvme ssd, 4 core celleron processor 2.00 ghz to 2.9 ghz. Expandable memory to 16GB, nvme, and slot for 2.5" SSD or conventional hard drive up to 2TB, 2 HDMI ports, 4 USB3 connections, built in wifi and ethernet. Needless to say it came with windows 11 PRO, I let that install so it would be registered with MS. Right after install, I added ssd drive, popped in Tumbleweed USB stick, and formatted and installed Tumbleweed on it.
I am amazed how these little things run, silent, fast, and all hardware works flawlessly. Running a plexmediaserver on it, also sharing files via ftp, and SMB. I am truly amazed at the performance. It is capable of 4K resolutions on both HDMI ports.
For my daily driver aka office work, browsing, file server, and multimedia server, it is perfect. I won’t be buying full on PC’s for several hundred dollars anymore. This thing is 4 1/2"x 4 1/2" square, and 2" tall. Has vesa bracket for monitor or television mounting.
The one I bought was Beelink MINI S, but brand doesn’t matter much with the huge selection of these on the internet. In all honesty if you have never tried one, or thought they would be under powered, I recommend spending $150 bucks and giving one a try. I was reluctant at first but after reading reviews and watching video reviews I figured for that amount of money it was worth a try. I am happy!
Sorry I posted this in the wrong area, and I don’t seem to have the abilty to delete, edit, or move it. I meant it for the chit chat section.
Hi
I got a similar device a month or so ago… I’m running MicroOS Desktop on it (it can boot to Windows 11), my ultimate end use will be a cluster of three devices.
System:
Kernel: 6.0.6-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME v: 43.0
Distro: openSUSE MicroOS
Machine:
Type: Mini-pc System: Benss product: B00JP1 v: Standard
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Benss model: B00JP1_V10 v: Standard serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: BJ10A816 date: 06/02/2022
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Celeron N5095 bits: 64 type: MCP cache:
L2: 1.5 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 729 min/max: 800/2900 cores: 1: 799 2: 753 3: 661
4: 706
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel JasperLake [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.5
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting gpu: i915
resolution: no compositor data resolution: 1680x1050
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (JSL) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.2
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Jasper Lake HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: C-Media USB Audio Device type: USB
driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.0.6-1-default running: yes
Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.59 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: enp1s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
driver: rtw_8821ce
IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 12.96 GiB (2.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD Blue SA510 M.2 2280
500GB size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 265.49 GiB used: 12.93 GiB (4.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 32.5 MiB (12.7%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 265.49 GiB used: 12.93 GiB (4.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda5
ID-4: /opt size: 265.49 GiB used: 12.93 GiB (4.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda5
ID-5: /var size: 265.49 GiB used: 12.93 GiB (4.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-2: 0
Info:
Processes: 227 Uptime: 0h 2m Memory: 7.54 GiB used: 1.22 GiB (16.2%)
Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.21
First, thank you for moving the thread Malcom. I am really enjoying this little pc. I am truly amazed. Looks like you have the same specs as mine.
Hi
Yes, was going to move it anyway
My model also has VGA out as well as two HDMI, impressed with how well MicroOS runs on it.